Live-music venues worth the trip in New Haven, Connecticut

A 1926 downtown theater, once the Roger Sherman and later the Palace, now a flexible 2,000-capacity music hall with a standing floor and reserved balcony built to attract major touring artists who might otherwise skip Connecticut.

An outdoor concert venue on Yale Avenue in the Westville neighborhood, booked by Premier Concerts, Manic Presents and Bowery Presents for touring headliners.

A York Street rock club running since 1975 that bills its history as running from the Rolling Stones to Post Malone and Bob Dylan to Snoop Dogg, and still packs a dense calendar of national touring acts around its Saturday dance parties.

A tiny 21-plus State Street bar with a house backline on stage and a dense run of touring and local bands that makes it New Haven’s essential small room.

A Crown Street complex housing a recording studio, a bar and a listening room that presents a Friday-night jazz series each fall and spring.