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The resurrected Moe’s is now Neumo’s, Capitol Hill’s most hip and happening music venue. The club is back to basics with a strong show of rock bands and DJ dance nights.

Best for microbrew, pub food, or brewing supplies.

If Polestar’s room is as small as ConWorks is gargantuan, the artistic vision is equally as imposing. The award-winning curators book acts dedicated to experimental music in a no-frills setting. Patrons listen and learn about contemporary composition, electroacoustic and electronic music, free improvization, and out jazz.

Serves excellent beers and great faux-Egyptian label design too.

Seattle’s earliest micro-brewers began in May 1981.

This tavern is primarily an outlet for start-up bands of the ear-shattering punk rock persuasion. The room’s red decor and lighting seems to take inspiration from a Victorian bordello. Lots of bands have their first gigs here.

This elegant 1900s Art Deco room with state-of-the-art audio and computer-controlled lighting has been used as a concert hall, a comedy club, and even a rental space for a Talmud Torah Hebrew Academy Bingo series. Artists as dissimilar as Al Jolson, the Mills Brothers, Gypsy Rose Lee, and the Ramones have performed here. Now, the 1,000-seat venue books successful touring rock and hip-hop acts.

In the space of a former 1920s-era vaudeville theater upscale audiences soak up the best of jazz, rock, cabaret, and blues while enjoying French wine and cuisine.

A bastion of great music, this place thrives as an alternative to clubs elsewhere in Seattle that are known for mining hard rock acts. The Tractor primarily books bands with repertoire in the vein of country western, rockabilly, bluegrass, or musicians who seamlessly fuse all those styles into something quite original.

A real neighborhood café where baristas serve Capitol Hill’s Vivace espresso and drip coffee from beans roasted at Lighthouse Roasters in Fremont. The aesthetics reflect music and art of the 1920s and 30s.