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11/15/2025

The Music Roadtrip app is rolling into Bloomington, Indiana, a town shaped by Indiana University and the Jacobs School of Music, where trained players end up in bar bands as often as orchestras. It’s also the place John Mellencamp has called home for decades, which gives the city a quiet but real connection to Midwest rock history. Add in the DIY roots tied to Secretly Canadian and WFHB, and you get a scene with range. Here are five of our favorite stops.

🎸 The Bluebird has been Bloomington’s signature club for decades. Mellencamp played here early on, and touring acts still treat it as the room that gives them a real read on a Midwest college crowd. The bar-rail sightlines and loud stage make it a first-stop venue for a lot of regional bands.

🎤 Buskirk-Chumley Theater sits in a former 1920s movie palace on Kirkwood Avenue. The marquee has been a downtown landmark for generations, and the room books everything from folk and jazz to IU ensembles and community festivals that use the theater as a home base.

🎶 The Orbit Room is a basement cocktail bar. The room mixes funk nights, experimental sets, and a few pinball machines that give it a laid-back, offbeat vibe.

💿 Landlocked Music has deep Bloomington roots. It’s long been a hub for Secretly Canadian, Dead Oceans, and Jagjaguwar artists when they’re home, and the shop’s bins reflect it with strong indie, jazz, and alt-country sections.

🍺 Blockhouse Bar sits under The Soma coffeehouse and carries classic basement-venue energy. The low ceiling, tight room, and student-driven bookings make it one of the best places to catch local punk, indie, and left-field touring acts.

🧭 Visit Bloomington is the best place to plan your trip and see what’s happening around town.

🚐 We’re Music Roadtrip, a travel app for music fans. Follow us to discover legendary venues, record stores, and music landmarks across the country.

Our app launches this January. Learn more at musicroadtrip.com.

11/15/2025

The Music Roadtrip app is rolling into Phoenix, Arizona, a city where the live scene spreads across downtown, Roosevelt Row, and the old warehouse district. Touring acts lean on the big rooms, and local bands keep the smaller spaces busy almost every night. Here are five of our favorite stops.

🎸 The Van Buren sits in a converted 1930s auto dealership and has become one of Phoenix’s most consistent tour stops. The room feels big but not oversized, and the calendar stays packed with national acts.

🎤 Crescent Ballroom anchors the edge of downtown. The venue, lounge, and taqueria all share the same footprint, and the blend of indie, hip-hop, and Latin shows gives the place its identity.

🍺 The Rebel Lounge carries the legacy of the old Mason Jar, but in its first decade under the Rebel name it has carved out its own reputation as the room where future stars show up early. Chappell Roan, Benson Boone, and Mitski all played the club on their way up, and the calendar still leans heavily on rising acts.

🎶 Valley Bar sits underground off an alleyway and runs a sharp mix of indie, hip-hop, and metal. The bunker-style room and late-night energy make it a home base for a lot of Phoenix’s underground artists.

💿 The Nash Jazz Club is Phoenix’s all-ages jazz anchor. The space runs shows almost every night and stays closely tied to the local scene through education programs and community workshops.

🧭 Visit Phoenix is the best place to map out your trip and keep up with what’s happening around the city.

🚐 We’re Music Roadtrip, a travel app for music fans. Follow us to discover legendary venues, record stores, and music landmarks across the country. Our app launches this January. Learn more at musicroadtrip.com.

11/15/2025

The DittyTV Family mourns the loss of Vibe & Dime Concert Series Alum Todd Snider.

Todd Snider is perhaps the quintessential postmodern troubadour.

Since his 1994 debut, the Nashville antihero released albums that both challenged and invigorated country, folk, and Americana music.

Throughout his career, Todd studied at the feet of songwriting visionaries like Kris Kristofferson, Jimmy Buffett, Guy Clark, John Prine, and Jerry Jeff Walker, sharpening his skills with each interaction with his heroes.

With those greats gone, Todd found himself as the torchbearer for their type of live-it-to-learn-it songwriting, and has mentored artists from Hayes Carll to Sierra Ferrell along the way.

His released his album "HIGH, LONESOME AND THEN SOME" via Aimless Records / Thirty Tigers in October.

Produced by Aaron Lee Tasjan, Robbie Crowell and Joe Bisirri, it's a stripped-down, juke-joint album of nine tracks, each of them steeped in the blues.

With "HIGH, LONESOME AND THEN SOME", he further cemented his reputation as an amalgamation of the greats that came before — while also being uniquely Todd, the heartbroken troubadour, the wry observer, and the brilliant itinerant.

Sending so much love to Todd’s family, friends, and our Americana/Roots Music family.

11/15/2025

The Music Roadtrip app is rolling into Mystic, Connecticut, the coastal town known for its shipbuilding roots and the Mystic Seaport Museum, where 19th-century maritime life is still preserved. The waterfront crowds and compact downtown keep the music spots active throughout the year. Here are five of our favorite stops.

🎸 Friar Tucks Tavern sits in the center of downtown and keeps live music going most nights. The building has operated as a bar in one form or another since the 1980s, which is why so many Connecticut musicians treat it as a rite of passage.

🎤 Engine Room occupies part of the old Lathrop Marine Engine Company complex, so the warehouse bones are real. Local rock and singer-songwriters fill the calendar, and the late sets come from years of staff musicians keeping the nights going after hours.

🎶 Red 36 sits on the marina and takes its name from the Red 36 channel marker outside. Boats dock right next to the restaurant, and summer sets often line up with activity at Mystic Seaport.

💿 Mystic Disc has been operating since 1983, making it one of Connecticut’s longest-running record shops.

🍺 The Harp & Hound is the classic Irish pub downtown. Karaoke nights and monthly music sessions keep the room lively, and weekend bands round things out.

🧭 This is Mystic is the best place to plan your trip and keep up with what’s happening around town.

🚐 We’re Music Roadtrip, a travel app for music fans. Follow us to discover legendary venues, record stores, and music landmarks across the country.

Our app launches this January. Learn more at musicroadtrip.com.

11/14/2025

The Music Roadtrip app is rolling into Columbia, Missouri, a town shaped first and foremost by the University of Missouri. The campus brings in new musicians every year, and the True/False Film Fest adds its own creative streak each spring. The result is a small city with big turnover and steady live music. Here are five of our favorite spots in CoMo:

🎸 The Blue Note has been a downtown landmark since 1980. The building started as a vaudeville house and later a movie theater, and that old layout still shapes the sound. The steep balcony and long history of first-time Missouri crowds make it one of the state’s most dependable rock rooms.

🎤 Rose Music Hall is a small indoor club with an attached outdoor lawn that opens for summer shows and festivals. Inside, it hosts local bands, touring indies, comedy nights, and community events, while the lawn becomes one of Columbia’s go-to warm-weather hangouts.

🎶 Cafe Berlin (Columbia, MO) is the classic college-town hangout. It grew out of a mid-2000s artist collective, which is why the calendar still swings from jazz majors to punk tours to drag brunch without blinking. Breakfast in the morning, intimate gig room at night.

💿 Hitt Records sits in The District with tightly curated new and used vinyl. Collectors know it for deep Missouri pressings including country, jazz, and oddball local 45s that rarely surface outside the region. Occasional in-store sets pull in regulars and touring musicians.

🎷 Murry's has been serving nightly jazz since 1985. The Monday set has been running for decades without interruption, and the low lights and late food make it the most reliable listening room in town.

🧭 Visit Columbia MO is the best place to map out your trip and see what’s happening around town.

🚐 We’re Music Roadtrip, a travel app for music fans. Follow us to discover legendary venues, record stores, and music landmarks across the country.

Our app launches this January. Learn more at musicroadtrip.com.

11/14/2025

It's NEW MUSIC FRIDAY!
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11/14/2025

The Music Roadtrip app is rolling into Flagstaff, Arizona, a mountain town where the Lowell Observatory discovered Pluto and where touring bands still load into century-old rooms along Route 66. The mix of students, locals, and travelers gives the city a steady flow of musicians on any given night. Here are five of our favorite spots:

🎸 The Orpheum Theater has been Flagstaff’s anchor room for more than a century, with national tours, packed college-town crowds, and the kind of acoustic warmth you only get from a century-old theater.

🎤 Yucca North brings the scrappy desert-punk spirit up from Tempe. It’s a tight, low-ceilinged room booked with garage rock, indie locals and late-night dance parties.

🎶 MonteVista CocktailLounge sits inside the historic Hotel Monte Vista and leans into mood. Red lights, strong drinks, and a steady rotation of funk, soul, and rock bands that treat it like a second home.

💿 Flagstaff Records & Skates doubles as a record shop and skate shop. Punk, metal, Arizona indie, and local pressings are stacked floor to ceiling. It’s a true scene outpost.

🍺 Dark Sky Brewing Company is the nightly hang, with a big patio that turns into a stage for acoustic sets, local rock bands, and visiting players who slot in from time to time.

🧭 Discover Flagstaff is the best place to plan your trip and map out the city.

🚐 We’re Music Roadtrip, a travel app for music fans. Follow us to discover legendary venues, record stores, and music landmarks across the country. Our app launches this January. Learn more at musicroadtrip.com.

11/14/2025

The Music Roadtrip app is rolling into Macon, Georgia, the city that gave the world Little Richard and Otis Redding. You feel the history in the buildings, but the rooms are alive with new players every week. Here are five of our favorite spots:

🎸 The Piedmont Grand Opera House is a downtown icon dating back to 1884. The room has been restored with care, and it now hosts national tours, hometown showcases, and the kind of classic Southern theater atmosphere Macon is known for.

🎤 Grant's Lounge, Macon, GA opened in 1971 and quickly became “The Original Home of Southern Rock.” The Allman Brothers, Wet Willie, and countless others played here early on. The room is still active, still sweaty, and still loud.

🎶 Capricorn Sound Studios and Museum is the legendary recording space where the Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker Band, and other giants shaped the Southern Rock sound. It now operates as both a museum and an active studio.

💿 Fresh Produce Records is a sharp local shop and occasional performance space. The curation leans underground, with plenty of Macon releases mixed into the stacks.

🏛️ The Big House Museum is the former band residence turned museum. The rooms are packed with guitars, posters, photos, and personal artifacts. It’s one of the essential music landmarks in the South.

🧭 Visit Macon is the best starting point for planning your trip and getting a sense of the city’s music history.

🚐 We’re Music Roadtrip, a travel app for music fans. Follow us to discover legendary venues, record stores, and music landmarks across the country. Our app launches this January. Learn more at musicroadtrip.com.

11/13/2025

The Music Roadtrip app is rolling into Denton, Texas — a town where musicians outnumber stoplights and the jazz program at UNT has been feeding the scene for generations. The venues sit shoulder-to-shoulder, and half the crowd on any given night probably played a gig earlier that week. Here are five of our favorite spots.

🎸 Dan's Silverleaf has been Denton’s reliable anchor since the early 2000s — a no-flash bar where you catch alt-country, jazz lifers, or some new local project everyone’s talking about.

🎤 The Bartonville Store sits just south of town and pairs a historic roadhouse feel with a strong lineup of live music — singer-songwriters, Texas country, and touring acts that fit the room’s warm, intimate setup.

🎶 Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios is the home base for the city’s noise, punk, and experimental corners.

💿 Recycled Books, with its purple and pink storefront, is a landmark packed with vinyl, CDs, and decades of Denton music history.

🍻 Harvest House is the patio hang everyone ends up at, with a roomy stage, easy crowds, and a mix of local and regional bands that keep the place lively after dark.

🧭 Discover Denton is a great place to start when planning your visit and exploring the city.

🚐 We’re Music Roadtrip, a travel app for music fans. Follow us to discover legendary venues, record stores, and music landmarks across the country.

Our app launches this January — learn more at musicroadtrip.com.

11/13/2025

The Music Roadtrip app is rolling into Chicago, Illinois — a city with deep musical roots and rooms that have shaped entire genres. From jazz landmarks to rock clubs and record stores that touring bands swear by, the scene is wide but easy to plug into. Here are five of our favorite spots:

🎸 Metro Chicago has been a Wrigleyville anchor since 1982, the kind of rock room where bands like The Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, and Chance the Rapper all found early momentum. Still one of the best-sounding stages in the Midwest.

🎷 Green Mill Cocktail Lounge is a classic Uptown jazz club dating back to 1907. Once tied to Capone-era Chicago, now known for world-class jazz and poetry nights in a perfectly preserved Prohibition-era interior.

🎶 Thalia Hall brings a restored 1890s opera house back to life in Pilsen, mixing standout architecture with adventurous bookings — indie rock, experimental shows, and anything that benefits from great acoustics.

💿 Reckless Records is a Chicago fixture with shops in Wicker Park, Lakeview, and the Loop, serving crate-diggers, locals, and touring musicians since 1988.

🏛️ Blues Heaven sits inside the original Chess Records building on South Michigan Ave., now a museum and nonprofit preserving Chicago blues. Open for tours and events.

🧭 Choose Chicago is a great place to start when planning your trip and exploring the city.

🚐 We’re Music Roadtrip, a travel app for music fans. Follow us to discover legendary venues, record stores, and music landmarks across the country. Our app launches this January — learn more at musicroadtrip.com.

11/13/2025

The Music Roadtrip app is rolling into Louisville, Kentucky, a city with a tight, well-tuned network of venues and a crowd that shows up ready. Each neighborhood has its own character, but the scene feels connected and easy to move through. Here are a few of our favorite spots:

🎸 Headliners Music Hall has been a cornerstone room since the late ’90s. Touring acts grow here, and Louisville artists use it as a real marker in their climb.

🎤 Zanzabar started as a neighborhood bar and became a dependable stop for rising indie bands. The space is small, direct, and built for close-up sets.

🎷 Whirling Tiger brought the old Tiger Room building back into steady use. The bookings range widely and the schedule stays full.

💿 Guestroom Records on Frankfort Avenue remains one of the city’s essential record shops. New releases move quickly. Local vinyl doesn’t get buried. The staff actually knows the shelves and points people toward what’s worth hearing.

🍺 Mellwood Tavern is one of Louisville’s most reliable neighborhood music spots. The calendar stays active with roots, blues, local rock, and players who treat the place like home.

🧭 Louisville Tourism is a reliable starting point for planning your trip and mapping out the city’s venues and neighborhoods.

🚐 We’re Music Roadtrip, a travel app for music fans. Follow us to discover legendary venues, record stores, and music landmarks across the country.

Our app launches this January and will make it easier than ever for you to take your next great musical adventure. Learn more at musicroadtrip.com.

11/12/2025

The Music Roadtrip app is rolling into Northampton, Massachusetts, a Western Mass town with more musicians per square mile than most cities ten times its size. The downtown is compact and full of character, with record stores, bars, and venues that all feed into one another. Here are five of our favorite spots.

🎭 Academy of Music Theatre sits on Main Street and mixes national tours, local productions, and one-off concerts in a 19th-century opera house setting.

🎶 The Parlor Room is a small nonprofit listening room with a loyal following and sharp ears for Americana and indie acts.

🎤 The Iron Horse is back open after major renovations, once again hosting national and local artists in one of the city’s most beloved rooms.

💿 Deep Thoughts Record Shop brings its eclectic vinyl selection from Boston to downtown Northampton, mixing classic LPs, cassettes, and local releases.

🎸 Downtown Sounds has been the area’s go-to music store since 1976, serving as both an instrument shop and a community hub for musicians across the Valley.

🧭 Visit Massachusetts is a great place to start when planning your trip and exploring Western Massachusetts.

🚐 We’re Music Roadtrip, a travel app for music fans. Follow us to discover legendary venues, record stores, and music landmarks across the country.

Our app launches this January and will make it easier than ever for you to take your next great musical adventure. Learn more at musicroadtrip.com.