Europe 12 rooms
Barbarella's Discotheque
The restored 1970s open-air disco in the pines on the coast at Pirovac, 2,500 people on a Funktion-One, the after-hours room for Love International, Dekmantel Selectors and the other…
Le Sucre
The club on the roof of La Sucrière, a 1925 sugar warehouse on the Saône at Lyon's Confluence, opened 28 June 2013 by Arty Farty, the people behind Nuits sonores: 400 square metres of…
Berghain
Cathedral of techno in a former East-Berlin power plant. Eighteen-metre brutalist ceilings, a purist sound system, and the strictest door policy in the world.
Loftas
A Baltic warehouse beating with rebellion. Art, bass, sweat under one roof. Housed in a repurposed factory in Vilnius' Naujamiestis district.
Lux Frágil
Lisbon's great river club since 1998: a dock warehouse at Santa Apolónia opened by Manuel Reis on the last days of Expo 98, 1,500 people, a terrace that faces the sunrise over the Tagus.
Barutana (Kalemegdan Fortress)
Historic fortress courtyard turned summer techno hotspot under the stars. A 17th-century gunpowder magazine now open-air, the stone vaults reverberate with deep bass instead of cannon fire.
Cova Santa
Carved into a mountainside south of Ibiza Town, where nature and nightlife make peace.
DC-10
The old farmhouse by Ibiza airport where Circoloco began in 1999 as a free Monday after-party: three rooms, a sun terrace under the flight path, 1,500 people, no VIP.
La Gravière
Industrial riverside space for deep electronic nights. Geneva's beating underground heart, beside the Rhône.
Mountain Hostel Gimmelwald
A car-free Swiss alpine hostel at 1,400 metres above the Lauterbrunnen valley. Wooden chalet, communal stove, the Eiger and Jungfrau as the back wall.
King Street Social Club
King Street Social Club is a members' working men's club on King Street in North Shields, still run by and for its members, with bingo nearly every Friday, a meat raffle and a key draw.
Studio 338
The terrace club on the Greenwich Peninsula, opened 2014, burned in August 2016 and rebuilt in airport-grade glass and steel for October 2017: a 3,000-capacity covered terrace, an outdoor…
Africa 4 rooms
Cairo Jazz Club
Cairo's live music venue since 2001, at 197 26th of July Corridor in Agouza, Giza. Reservations are necessary; entry is for couples and mixed groups aged 23 and over, with ID at the door.
The Alchemist Bar
An open-air compound of bars, stages and food trucks off Parklands Road in Westlands, Nairobi, open since 31 December 2015. Live music, DJ sets, comedy, film and a monthly flea market.
New Afrika Shrine
Open-air entertainment centre in Ikeja, Lagos, run by Femi and Yeni Anikulapo-Kuti. Replaces Fela Kuti's original 1970 Afrika Shrine (burnt down 1977).
B4 Beach Club
The electronic-only beach club on Paje beach, Zanzibar's kitesurf coast: Saturday parties on the sand, twelve bungalows named after DJs, an hour from the airport.
Asia 27 rooms
Bar Martha
A listening bar in Ebisu, Tokyo, run by Wataru Fukuyama's Martha Records group. No reservations, no photography, voices kept low, open 19:00 to 03:00 year-round.
Blue Note Tokyo
The Tokyo branch of New York's Blue Note, open since 26 November 1988 and now at 6-3-16 Minami-Aoyama. About 280 reserved seats, short runs by touring players, no dress code.
Jazz Kissa Basie
Shoji Sugawara's jazz kissa in Ichinoseki, Iwate, open since 1970 and built around speakers he made himself in the 1970s. It opens only some days, so check before you travel.
Womb
Four-floor Shibuya club, since 1999. Asia's largest mirror ball on the main floor, a Funktion-One rig, 25 years of being the techno-tourist's first stop in Tokyo.
Zouk Singapore
Asia's longest-running superclub, founded 1991 and at Clarke Quay since 2016.
Cakeshop
A basement club at B1, 134 Itaewon-ro, Seoul, open since 2012 and described by Mixmag Asia as one of the city's longest-running underground clubs. UK bass, grime, house and techno.
Alonetogether
A jazz bar on Soi Sukhumvit 31, Bangkok, from the owners of Sugar Ray and Ku Bar: live bands Wednesday to Sunday downstairs and a second-floor listening room of rare pressings from Recoroom…
Club Salva Record Bar
The Modern-Day Culture team's second record bar in Ekkamai, Bangkok, opened in 2026 behind a red door: crates of jazz, house and disco and wines and cocktails built from fermented…
Clutch, The Warehouse
The nightlife floor of The Warehouse, a multi-level creative complex in Talat Noi, Bangkok: a shared living room on quiet nights and a rave when RomRom or Bangkok Community Radio take the…
Deaf Shop
Chiang Mai's first vinyl listening bar, open since May 2022 at 36 Prapokklao Road inside the Old City.
Freaking Out The Neighborhood
A small listening bar in a metal-container building off Soi Sukhumvit 36, Bangkok, from the Have You Heard team.
Fung Record Bar
An all-analogue vinyl bar up the wooden stairs of a converted traditional house on Prapokklao Soi 1, inside Chiang Mai's Old City: funk, indie, disco and rock on records, good speakers, a…
Japhoochonpak
A shop, bar and occasional stage in Bangkok Noi, across the river from the old city, built from the record, book and memorabilia collection of Tum Tokin Teekhanont.
John Lemon
Khun Pik's bistro on Samlarn Road inside Chiang Mai's Old City, opened in 2025, with the slogan Food, Drink, Vinyl: burgers, a garden, a large LP collection tended by staff, and diners…
Lennon's
The Rosewood Bangkok's vinyl bar on the 30th floor, styled on a 1970s home studio: more than 6,000 records, a weekly programme (jazz on Friday), smart casual, 20 and over.
Long Play Music and Bar
A dark second-floor vinyl bar inside Josh Hotel on Soi Ari 4, Bangkok, with a wall-sized projector, rotating DJs, and live jazz on Friday and Saturday with the Club Patongko DJ team.
Modern-Day Culture
An Ekkamai record bar in Bangkok run by friends who have collected vinyl for more than twenty years.
Noomtaofire Record
Khun Ae's second-floor record shop above a clothing boutique on Charoen Prathet Road, near Chiang Mai's Night Bazaar, opened in 2023: secondhand and sealed LPs across pop, indie, hip-hop…
OBi Record Bar
A vinyl listening bar behind a blue door on Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Road, Silom, Bangkok, opened in 2026 by the Yayyyyy team: rare Japanese pressings, dark wood, and a host called the Bar…
SIWILAI Sound Club
A two-floor audiophile club inside Central: The Original Store on Charoen Krung, Bangkok, opened in 2020: six OJAS speakers around a grand piano downstairs, and upstairs a pair of OJAS 816s…
Sober Record Bar
A vinyl bar on the third floor of the Merchant Gate Hotel on Song Wat Road, Bangkok's old riverside street, where the DJ plays from the balcony.
Soulmate Listening Bar
A converted old house off Soi Lat Phrao 41 in north-east Bangkok, wood throughout with a front garden, where records play in the evenings: Thai and international easy listening and the…
Studio Lam
Maft Sai's small vinyl bar above Zudrangma Records on Sukhumvit Soi 51, Bangkok's home of Thai mor lam and luk thung on record. Closed for good on 28 February 2026.
The Toys Club
A café by day and cocktail bar by night on San Pa Koi Road, east of the Ping river in Chiang Mai, packed with retro consoles, where DJ Bird plays his First Press collection of jazz, funk…
Thirty Records
Khun Munee's record shop in Suthep, Chiang Mai, opened early 2023, with a hi-fi listening wall at the back: Pioneer CS-77A and Diatone DS-36BR speakers, sofas, post-1950s jazz and Japanese…
Yayyyyy Record Bar
A one-shophouse record bar in a 77-year-old building on the edge of Nang Loeng, Bangkok, opened around June 2024 and named after the grandmother's grocery it replaced: 1,500 records, DJs'…
aftersun Listening Bar
A small listening bar made from an empty room in an old dormitory in Bang Bon, far west Bangkok: dark walls, 1970s light, a different vinyl DJ every night, a buy-and-sell record corner and…
Americas 11 rooms
Warung Beach Club
Bali-architecture beach club on the Brazilian Atlantic coast, opened 2002 and closed for good after its final weekend on 6 June 2026.
Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC)
X Alfonso's 1940s converted cooking-oil factory in Vedado, Havana. Five rooms, eight events a night, the most important Caribbean music space of the 2010s-2020s.
Lost Beach Club
Two-storey seafront club in Montañita on Ecuador's Pacific coast, built in 2012 by Kami Tadayon. A sea-view terrace, a Funktion-One main room and room for 2,500.
Elsewhere
A five-room venue in a former Bushwick furniture factory at 599 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, open since Halloween 2017.
House of Blues New Orleans
French Quarter flagship of the House of Blues chain since January 1994, at 225 Decatur Street. About 1,000 capacity, all ages with a ticket, every show sold through Ticketmaster.
Kingston Mines
Chicago's oldest continuously-operating blues club, open since 1968 in Lincoln Park. Two stages running simultaneously, one rotates while the other plays. Open until 4am.
Pappy and Harriet's
Roadhouse and music venue in Pioneertown, California, a 1940s Western film set on the high Mojave above Joshua Tree. Open since 1982, 250-cap room.
Preservation Hall
Preservation Hall is a small jazz room at 726 St Peter Street in the New Orleans French Quarter.
Smalls Jazz Club
60-cap basement jazz club on West 10th Street, open since 1994. The most-recorded session room in the New York jazz scene of the past 25 years. SmallsLIVE streams every set.
Terra Blues
Greenwich Village basement blues club on Bleecker Street, open since 1992. Two sets every night, acoustic at 7pm, electric at 10pm. The longest continuous blues residency in New York City.
Village Vanguard
Wedge-shaped basement jazz club on 7th Avenue South, opened 1935. 123-capacity. More than 100 live records cut here, Coltrane and Bill Evans among them.
