My relatively small city of Pensacola, FL is fairly well-known for its venue/vegan restaurant, Sluggo's (http://www.myspace.com/sluggos).  It is almost a deep-South Mecca for punk rock with an eclectic mix of bands coming through all week long.  Just this weekend Pelican rolled through with some instrumental rock.

Some of the more well-known bands that hail from the area are This Bike is a Pipe Bomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Bike_is_a_Pipe_Bomb), folk-punkers who are nationally renowned, and who got some press coverage over an incident involving a bike-riding fan in Ohio and the Columbus bomb squad (http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/contentbe/dispatch/2006/03/03/20060303-A1-06.html).  To my knowledge, similar misunderstandings have occured nationwide, unsurprisingly. 
We also have City of Ships (http://www.myspace.com/cityofships), who have recently relocated to Richmond, VA, but played here this weekend with Pelican.  They are now working with Perpetual Motion Machine Records, best known for the thrashy Circle Takes the Square.

Tonight, patrons were treated to Pipebomb, plus The Slits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slits), an established reggae-style punk band, whose lead vocalist was complaining for the longest time about the sound board not having any reverb effects...  A graffiti-ridden school bus from Richmond showed up, called the Mo Books Mo Bikes Mobile, which I guess promotes reading and biking by offering free books (also accepting donations) and free bike repairs.

I'm personally looking forward to Strike Anywhere and Streetlight Manifesto (one of the best damn ska bands out there) playing pretty soon.

Our small city has a few big acts performing at our Civic Center, like Elton John, who goes on soon this week, and has seen Tool, 311, and The Mars Volta.  However, I'm much more proud of our underground scene here, as it draws all sorts of interesting bands and people (including Ian Mackaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi), despite our Southern roots and Bible Belt locale.  I'm always happy to support it.


So how are things your way?

edit: also, i don't know how many (if any) of you have a band that tours at all in the south.  if so, you should let me know and try to book with sluggo's, as i'm sure that many bean-eating bike-riding hippies would show up to listen to your music.

Is this whole topic just an ad for Sluggo's?
Anyway, in Dublin, the venues all cater for different types of music... There's Whelans for post-punk and indie, both obscure and otherwise... the Voodoo Lounge for local punk and metal... the Village for more established leftfield acts like Patti Smith and the Fall... Tripod for DJs, dance bands, and general hipster-ish stuff... Crawdaddys for folk/country... the Sugar Club for jazz... And some bigass stadiums like the RDS that no-one interesting ever plays.

Naw, Sluggo's is just about the only notable venue around here.  Other than that, countless blues bars, where happenin' 30-50 year olds listen to the same old blues every night.

Basically all we have is a roller rink that has post-hardcore/old school punk/street punk shows.  Nothing much!

Also that menu looked pretty good!

wow, a roller rink.  that sounds pretty interesting.  that would make for an ass-busting mosh pit.

Denver's got some fantastic venue's and a fair amount of talent!

Fear Before The March of Flames, Breathe Carolina will be pretty huge someday, The Fray came from out here, killfix is good stuff, leer43 has been around a while now, the cover, five iron frenz, the axe that chopped the cherry tree, single file, yellow second, The String Cheese Incident, the photo atlas, and vaux. I think those are the only "well known" ones.

Venues - The Fillmore, The Ogden, The Gothic, The Marquis, Hi-Dive, Cervantes, Rock Island (RIP), the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheater, and The Bluebird off the top of my head.

I prefer what came from my last 'hometown' of Phoenix, Arizona. The Stiletto Formal, Jimmy Eat World, Authority Zero, A Change Of Pace, The Bled, goodbyetomorrow, Lydia, The Format, Calexico, and others.

Fear Before the March of Flames came out here years back (with Underoath  ​).  I'm guessing you're into a lot of heavier music?

well i live across the sip from new york so theres a lot of shit there.

in Hackensack theres only really one venue I know of-- The School of Rock, but it is badass as hell and has a pretty cool setup and is very fun to play.

There are a bunch of other area venues also but they are mondo shittastic.  There is ALSO a really big high school llllllollllllllll we are eeeeeeeeeemoooooooo bands scene here and they play lots of vfw shows and etc.

yeah, we get a lot of typical emo and metalcore bands out here as well.  luckily most of those acts are all herded into one night which can be conveniently avoided. 

that reminds me, Glory of This is another band that hit it pretty big after leaving here.  I think they had a video on Fuse or something.  Too bad they're shit.

Our only really notable venue consists mostly of newly founded teenagers gathering to show how cool they are by smoking ciggarettes and wearing shit from hot topic, but my friends band (insodox http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=159714031) is playing there this friday. say what you will about prog metal but they are infinitely better than the usually "punk" bands that play there

the new kings of rhythm, which have also played there, are really good. they are a funk band but i have only seen them that once

No one important plays here. Sonata Arctica was founded here, however.

I prefer what came from my last 'hometown' of Phoenix, Arizona. The Stiletto Formal, Jimmy Eat World, Authority Zero, A Change Of Pace, The Bled, goodbyetomorrow, Lydia, The Format, Calexico, and others.

That's where I'm at!  A lot of bands come from here... also Peachcake (RIP i think??), and Job For A Cowboy (who apparently now are enjoying worldwide popularity)

There's SO many venues here though... The Marquee Theater in Tempe is where most of the big bands for the high school/college age people go.  Then we have stuff all over town, The Phix, The Modified, The Clubhouse, Neckbeards (RIP  ​), Dodge Theater, etc.