A new music venue called The Atlantis — built to be a replica of the original 1980s-era 9:30 club — is opening directly behind the current 9:30 Club on 9th Street NW next month, independent promoter and 9:30 Club owner I.M.P. announced Tuesday morning.

Foo Fighters will open the new venue with a performance on May 30 — 43 years after the old 9:30 Club opened downtown in the Atlantic Building at 930 F Street NW, I.M.P. says. (It’s now the site of a shuttered J. Crew.)

It’ll be homecoming for the band.

“That’s where we all played first. That’s where R.E.M. played first. That’s where the [Red Hot] Chili Peppers played first. That’s where Nirvana played first,” Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl said during a surprise performance at 9:30 Club in 2021, when he made the first announcement that I.M.P. would rebuild the original club. The company has teased out just a few details about the new venue over the past year and a half

“Magic happened in that room,” Grohl continued. “And if the new room has the same vibe as the old 9:30 Club, you’ll see some real magic there, too.”

At just 450 seats, the $10 million venue will be more intimate than any of I.M.P.’s other spaces, which include The Anthem, Lincoln Theatre, and Merriweather Post Pavilion. The company is billing it as the place “where music begins” that will allow it to do the smallest shows it books in a space it controls, rather than another venue, 9:30 Club co-owner and chairman of I.M.P. Seth Hurwitz said in a statement.

The Atlantis will kick off with 44 shows to pay homage the start of 9:30 Club’s 44th year, including acts like Third Eye Blind, Parliament Funkadelic, Barenaked Ladies, Gary Clark Jr., Bartees Strange, and closing out with Maggie Rogers in September.

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To keep with the theme, tickets will cost $44 for the inaugural run and are on sale online through Ticketmaster Request from now until midnight on April 7. Through a lottery system, fans will learn next week if they were selected to purchase a ticket. If a ticket holder is unable to attend a show, Ticketmaster will offer a fan-to-fan face value exchange option.

The venue will be located at 2047 9th St. NW and was designed by CORE architecture + design. The site is the former location of the Satellite Room, which closed in 2019.

Seth Hurwitz’ son Sam will be The Atlantis’ general manager; he’s been front-of-house manager at The Anthem since 2018. The elder Hurwitz “stepped aside” from his role in 2019 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution charge, but has since returned. The Anthem and Merriweather Post Pavilion’s booking agent, Zhubin Aghamolla, will also book for The Atlantis, I.M.P. says.

Here’s the list of 44 inaugural shows:

• May 30: Foo Fighters
• May 31: The Walkmen
• June 2: Hot Chip
• June 3: Rainbow Kitten Surprise
• June 4: Modern English
• June 5: Franz Ferdinand
• June 6: Pixies
• June 9: Tank and the Bangas
• June 10: Yo La Tengo
• June 16: Marc Roberge of O.A.R.
• June 17: Hannibal Buress + Eshu Tune
• June 19: Sylvan Esso
• June 20: Darius Rucker
• June 24: Rodrigo y Gabriela
• June 25: X
• June 28: Jeff Tweedy
• July 2: Barenaked Ladies
• July 6: Tegan and Sara
• July 7: The Head and The Heart
• July 15: The Magnetic Fields
• July 20: Clutch
• July 21: Jenny Lewis
• July 23: The Struts
• July 27: Third Eye Blind
• July 28: Portugal. The Man
• July 29: Living Colour
• July 30: Iron & Wine
• Aug. 5: Gogol Bordello
• Aug. 6: Bush
• Aug. 8: Shakey Graves
• Aug. 10: Drive-By Truckers
• Aug. 14: Parliament Funkadelic feat. George Clinton
• Aug. 17: Thievery Corporation
• Aug. 27: Joan Jett
• Aug. 28: Gary Clark Jr.
• Sept. 2: Ben Gibbard
• Sept. 6: Luna
• Sept. 9: Bartees Strange
• Sept. 13: Spoon
• Sept. 15: Tove Lo
• Sept. 17: Billy Idol
• Sept. 21: Bastille
• Sept. 22: Matt and Kim
• Sept. 29: Maggie Rogers