Live-music venues worth the trip in Boston, Massachusetts

A tented amphitheater on the Seaport waterfront where the summer shed tours play with Boston Harbor as the backdrop, the closest thing the city has to an outdoor concert season.

A 5,007-capacity music hall at Lansdowne and Ipswich Streets beside Fenway Park, the newest big room in Boston and where national tours too large for the clubs land.

A downtown hall on the site of the 1852 Boston Music Hall, rebuilt in 1916 by Thomas Lamb in the Adam style, a worn and beloved seated theater off Tremont Street that still gets first-rate touring bills.

The Bowery Presents’ general-admission hall in Brighton, a huge standing-room floor that catches the national tours too large for the city’s clubs and too small for the arena.

A 1925 movie palace opened as the Metropolitan Theatre and restored to its crystal-chandelier-and-marble grandeur, the Boch Center’s grand seated room in the Theater District for major touring acts and Broadway runs.

Boston University’s 7,000-plus-seat arena on Commonwealth Avenue, opened 2005, that fills the gaps between Terriers hockey with a steady run of touring concerts too big for the city’s clubs.

A 2,000-capacity music hall on Causeway Street beside TD Garden, a bottle-service room with LED walls and three bars that books touring acts alongside DJ nights.

The Lansdowne Street club in the shadow of Fenway Park that serves as Boston’s default mid-size touring room, a multi-level general-admission music hall with the chain’s restaurant attached.

The Theater District house that sent Anything Goes, Porgy and Bess and Oklahoma! to Broadway, run by ATG with touring musicals and a smaller but steady run of concert bookings.

The North Station arena where the Bruins and Celtics play and where every major arena tour passing through New England stops, stacked with concerts between home games.

A 933-capacity standing-room club on Commonwealth Avenue open more than 40 years, with a wraparound balcony and a history that includes U2, Tom Petty and Talking Heads early in their careers.

Berklee College of Music’s 1,215-seat hall on Mass Ave, opened 1976, where about 200 events a year mix student and faculty concerts with visiting artists and promoter-booked touring shows.

One of the city’s busier mid-size concert rooms, a Tremont Street venue in the Theater District that bills itself Boston’s premier live music and events venue.

A 1914 Clarence H. Blackall theater in the Theater District where every seat sits close to the stage, a room Pollstar ranks among the top five worldwide selling clubs and a regular stop for touring music as well as comedy.

A hotel jazz club on the ground floor of the DoubleTree Suites, open since 1989 and named to DownBeat’s best venues in jazz list, where touring jazz headliners play.

A South End jazz room founded on New Year’s Day 1947 by Barbadian immigrant Joseph Walcott as the first Black-owned nightclub in New England, still family-run with live jazz every evening and jam sessions Tuesday through Saturday.

A 500-capacity general-admission room in Allston on the old Harper’s Ferry site, opened 2010 as a launching pad for new acts and where Imagine Dragons and Dropkick Murphys have played.

A seated wine-and-dinner listening room near North Station from the City Winery chain, with an on-site winery and a calendar of touring rock, soul, jazz and comedy names played at table volume.

A Jamaica Plain bar open since 1987 and open till 2 a.m. seven days a week, often compared to New York’s Knitting Factory for its eclectic mix of styles and crowds, with punk, rockabilly and jazz on the calendar and a long-running Queeraoke night.

A tiny Allston bar on Harvard Avenue with live music seven nights a week, the city’s reliable room for local and touring punk, metal and indie bills plus free matinee showcases of new bands.

Berklee’s all-ages club on Boylston Street, billed as Boston’s premier all-ages concert venue, where Crossroads Presents drops club-level touring acts in between student showcases.