The Best Concerts Events in Atlanta Right Now: What’s Actually Worth Your Night Out

Concerts events in Atlanta are extra wild right now—in a good way. You can feel it on the MARTA platform when half the train is in sequins and the other half is in vintage band tees. More than 4,200 people are already RSVP’d or circling tickets for this week’s highlights alone, which tells you everything you need to know: if you’re not planning at least one night out soon, you’re missing the plot.

The conversations you keep overhearing in line at Hattie B’s or grabbing coffee in East Atlanta Village? It’s the same names on repeat: Motown Under The Stars for the romantics; Smithsonian & The REMakes for the cool kids who swear they “liked them before they blew up”; Arnez J. Live in Atlanta, GA for the loud, laugh-til-you-cry crowd; the 2026 10th Morehouse College Glee Club Reunion for anyone who gets goosebumps from perfectly stacked harmonies; Friday Jazz for the High Museum set that prefers their chaos with a sax solo; and Thelma & The Sleaze w/ NRCSSST & Moonlust at The EARL for those who like their nights loud, grimy, and ending well past when MARTA calls it.

The big rooms are still doing what they do best. State Farm Arena is where you go when it’s a ‘we booked the Uber XL and we’re losing our voices tonight’ kind of show. Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center is the move when you want something a little more grown—lush acoustics, date-night outfits, maybe even dinner on Peachtree before. And Terminal West keeps its sweet spot as the place where bands feel huge but the room still feels personal—perfect if you like to say, ‘Yeah, I saw them back when they were doing 600-cap rooms.’

If you’re choosing: Motown Under The Stars and Friday Jazz are the ones you lock in first for an easy win—great for dates, visiting friends, or just pretending you’re classier than your Spotify history suggests. The Morehouse College Glee Club Reunion is truly for the vocal-music obsessives and ATL culture nerds; it’s heritage, not just a show. Thelma & The Sleaze at The EARL is for people who miss cigarette-smoke energy even in a post-smoking-ban world—sweaty, noisy, and fun in that ‘I might order tater tots at midnight’ way. And Arnez J.? That’s the night you pick when you need a mental reset and don’t mind your face hurting from laughing.

This is what discovery actually looks like in Atlanta right now: not scrolling aimlessly, but picking one of these nights, grabbing a friend, and letting the city do what it does best—turn a random weeknight into a story you’re still telling a month later.