Live-music venues worth the trip in Albany, New York

A 1931 John Eberson movie palace that has hosted Albany’s touring concerts for decades, with the gilt interior and 2,800-seat scale intact.

Albany’s downtown arena, opened by Frank Sinatra in 1990, is the Capital Region’s arena-tour stop and still lands the big rock and pop routings.

The unmistakable concrete egg on Empire State Plaza hides two steep, pearwood-walled rooms that are the region’s seated home for jazz and singer-songwriters.

Two stacked general-admission rooms on North Pearl Street that took over the Capital Region’s heavy, punk, and jam club circuit from the old Upstate Concert Hall.

A 1916 fraternal hall turned 300-cap club that pulls touring roots, indie, and heavy acts to Albany’s Lark Street neighborhood.