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[FireAarro]

Hey, for something I'm doing on Facebook right now I need some information about the status of all ages music around the world... America would probably be handiest. Are there many all ages/underage shows where you live? If there are all ages shows, how do they operate (how do they keep the kids from the liquor), and in what sort of venues (i.e. bars, art spaces etc.)?

Also, for those who live in Oregon, can you tell me how things have changed since the new minor postings stuff came into effect?

[overandover]

I live in Wisconsin, in a city with a huge music scene that has always been excellent for all-ages shows.  There are several old theaters that function as venues around here, a downtown coffee shop with a small venue attached, another small downtown building that happens to have a stage, a huge park with a stage set-up for summertime shows, an old indoor skating rink that attracts the middleschool music scene, there are multiple arenas and stages on campus, and I could go on.  About five years ago Rilo Kiley played at a smaller campus venue, which was an all-ages show.  I believe alcohol was served at this show, and that they simply carded everyone at the small bar they had set up.  Bon Iver is from my area, and all of Justin's bands have always played all-ages shows when they're in town.  I know he's played at venues with alcohol as well (one in particular was a large theater) which also just carded at the bar.

I have gone to shows in both Minneapolis and San Francisco at establishments that serve alcohol, and they dealt with underagers by marking their hands with X's (this was at a small bar) in permanent marker, or by requiring a wristband that's issued at the door to buy alcohol during the show (this was, I believe, at the Great American Music Hall in SF).

I hope this was at least a little bit helpful to you, and appologies for my rambling. 

[Christophe]

There are very few reasons why I would go home from college (seeing friends, doctor's appointments, family things). This place is one of them.

Every time I've been to a show here it is several different kinds of fucking amazing.

I wish there were more all-ages venues in general especially where I go to school, but it's not really a concern now since I'm 21. But it still blows for people younger than me. There was a theater that used to have all-ages shows in town that closed down two weeks after I started going to school here (Merced, CA), and if I want all-ages I have to go to a house show or to a nearby city where apparently that kind of thing isn't shitcanned. There's also a venue in the back room of a church but they haven't had shows in a while. I threw an all-ages show at my school, and while it was a good show, most of the people who came were from the community. Barely any of them were from campus. Consequently, I hate approx. 95% of the people at my school.

[sean]

In DC, you got the 9:30 club, The Black Cat, and the Rock and Roll Hotel, which are all all age venues that have the big fancy bands (big as in like, Andrew Bird to Mogwai). Then throughout the city you have tons of punk rock house shows which I go to a whole bunch. If there are any other types of house shows that are not punk rock dominated, I do not know of them.

[TheFuriousWombat]

Philly has a bunch of great all ages venues. The First Unitarian Church and the Starlight Ballroom are almost always all ages and pretty much always great, inexpensive venues. The latter has a bar in a roped off section at the back. They check ID at the door and stamp your hand if over 21 and only people with said stamp can access the bar area. The Trocadero is often all ages or 16+ and has a bar as well with the usual check-at-the-door system and (I think) wristbands.
New York has tons and tons of venues that are all ages or 16+. All the various Bowery venues (Ballroom, poetry club, upstairs ect.) tend to be 16+. The Ballroom checks IDs at the door for the three bars they have. Le Poisson Rouge is often all ages or 16+ and also checks IDs at the door and mark hands. Terminal 5 has already been mentioned and it too tends to be all ages.
Those are the venues I frequent most. Still, there are too many 21+ venues in my opinion. They sell alcohol at all ages, 16+, 18+ shows so I don't see why some shows are restricted.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

there's a shitload of all ages places in Seattle. unfortunately (for you), i avoid Seattle like the plague so the only ones i can think of off the top of my head are El Corazon (formerly Graceland) and Studio 7.