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Paradiso
A converted church that has hosted almost everyone worth hosting since 1968. The balcony is the best seat in Dutch live music.
Melkweg
Elsewhere
Three rooms and a roof in one building, which makes it the easiest good night in Brooklyn to commit to without a plan.
Barrowland Ballroom
A sprung dancefloor and a ceiling of stars. Bands talk about playing here for the rest of their careers.
Salón Los Ángeles
"Quien no conoce Los Ángeles, no conoce México." A 1937 ballroom still running danzón and salsa on the original floor.
Liquidroom
De Commune
Village Underground
UNIT
Jazz Cafe
KOKO
Cine Joia
La Machine du Moulin Rouge
Musicbox Lisboa
Under an arch on Pink Street, and the most consistently interesting booking in Lisbon — batida one night, live noise the next.
La Bellevilloise
Riviera Bar
Band on the Wall
Lofi
Maggie Choo’s
antiSOCIAL
A basement built for live music that turned into the city’s most important room for local electronic acts.
Zinco Jazz Club
A bank vault basement downtown running live jazz six nights a week. Book, or stand.
Trincas
Live bands on Park Street since 1959, through every phase of the city’s history. The last of its generation still doing it properly.
Havana Social
Foro Normandie
Damas
The Sultan Room
Romantso
Titanic Sur Mer
Petit Bain
Blue Note São Paulo
Night Cat
Bitterzoet
Slink & Bardot
YAAM
Riverside sand, sound-system culture and a Caribbean kitchen. The least Berlin-sounding room in Berlin.
Mama Rumba
Vila Seu Justino
YES
Gramps
Beco 203
Santeria Toscana 31
Brixton Jamm
Racket Wynwood
Ruby Room
The Waiting Room
Someplace Else
The Park Hotel’s pub, and the room that kept Indian rock alive when nowhere else would book it.