Live-music venues worth the trip in Atlantic City, New Jersey

The 1929 barrel-vaulted Boardwalk arena, 14,770 seats under a 137-foot ceiling with what the hall calls the largest musical instrument on earth still inside, where Elton John, Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones have played and the biggest arena tours still stop in Atlantic City.

Borgata’s big flat-floor concert hall in the Marina District, the Atlantic City casino room that books arena-level touring headliners.

The arena-scale concert room inside Hard Rock Atlantic City on the Boardwalk, the casino hall for major touring names.

Ocean Casino Resort’s concert hall on the Boardwalk, a big seated house with skyboxes that draws headline tours.

Hard Rock Atlantic City’s second concert hall, the room the property uses for touring acts sized below the arena next door.

Tropicana’s 2,000-seat showroom on the Boardwalk, a proper seated concert hall rather than a lounge, booking national touring names.

Borgata’s mid-size theater, the seated room for touring shows too small for the Event Center.