The phrase "arena band" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a musical group that performs in large venues or arenas, typically for a significant audience.
Example: "The arena band played to a sold-out crowd, delivering an unforgettable performance."
Alternatives: "stadium band" or "concert band".
Van Halen didn't play like an arena band concerned with lighting cues and special effects; for the night, it was a club act treating songs like jams.
"People didn't expect us to rock out," Mitchell grins, "but we played like an arena band, we kicked ass, and they dug it".
That may explain why Joy Division, a group that put out just two records and was never a huge arena band, merits not just a feature, but also a documentary, simply called "Joy Division".
The Cure are an arena band in 2016 by virtue of the size of their following, not their performance style, but they filled the vast Splendour amphitheatre with washes of sound and warmth, with the dreamy double of Plainsong and Pictures of You an ideal starting point.
It promoted the duo of Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach into an arena band, after a decade of playing clubs.
I can hear remnants of "Pod" on recent records by Courtney Barnett, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker Deall's songwriting has long been foundational to enduring arena bands like Radiohead and the National.
Parsons saved Nudie from becoming a fashion punch line by bringing the western look to 70's arena bands who sang about ganja and groupies, not campfires and cowgirls.
Dig Me Out, their third album, was critically acclaimed and led them to sharing stages with arena bands like Pearl Jam – testament to how, as Brownstein once put it, "Sleater-Kinney are brave enough and strong enough to make a difference and get the word out".
Playing the first of six nights at the beautifully renovated Inglewood arena, the band presented a three-plus hour retrospective dubbed "History of the Eagles," a sort of concert companion to the band's 2013 documentary of the same name.
Sugarland was staged like an arena country band.
On the floor of the arena, another band played as vendors sold the American stadium standards beer and popcorn.
