Underground Music
Editorial
LGBTQ+ Events in Paris: A Guide to the City's Queer Nightlife
LGBTQ+ nightlife in Paris runs across drag cabarets, gabber and techno rooms, Fashion Week club nights and riverside terrace parties, spread through Le Marais, Pigalle, Belleville, La Villette and the Seine embankments rather than one gay village. Anchors include Le Klub near Les Halles for bear meetups and hard techno, Gibus Club near République for its Fashion Week nights, and Les Souffleuses in Le Marais for its "hyper queer" gabber parties, alongside drag bingo at À la folie and Badaboum. Many of these nights never use the word "gay" or "queer" in their titles, which is where Mood's own queerness score comes in - it scores events on the underlying data, and Mood pulls the results into one Paris calendar.
Jeff Mills in Athens: What to Expect from "Tomorrow Comes the Harvest"
Jeff Mills' "Tomorrow Comes the Harvest", the improvised techno-and-Afrobeat project he began with drummer Tony Allen, plays Melina Mercouri Open Air Theatre in Athens on September 24th as part of the PLISSKEN series. It's a seated, three-piece show built on live keyboards, flute, and electronics rather than Mills' usual marathon DJ sets, and Mood's data reads it as unusually polished and low on undergroundness for Athens' current techno calendar - a rare, restrained booking from a genre-founding DJ, reviewed here alongside the Athens listing on Mood.
Boiler Room Rotterdam at Maassilo: A Lineup Built on Contrast
Boiler Room Rotterdam is the local edition of the livestream-and-event brand's uncut, behind-the-booth format, landing at Maassilo on 26 September with a bill split between UK garage (Diffrent, Saint Ludo, Entasia) and hard house and gabber, headlined by hardcore techno co-founder Marc Acardipane alongside Cynthia Spiering and Lil Texas. Mood's enrichment data reads the session well above the city's tempo average and, despite the brand name, below average on both commerciality and vocality - a rawer, more instrumental booking than a "big brand, big room" date would suggest. The event hasn't happened yet, so this is a preview with a case made, not a rating. Full lineup and details are listed on Mood.
Joseph Capriati at BRET, Amsterdam: What to Expect from ADE Sunday
Joseph Capriati, the Naples-area techno DJ marking twenty years on the international circuit, returns to BRET in Amsterdam for ADE Sunday on October 25th, an extended all-day set with support from Cristina Lazic. BRET is an organic restaurant and craft-beer bar by day that converts into a club by night in a converted red-brick building near Sloterdijk station, and Mood's enrichment data reads the booking as unusually polished and low on undergroundness for the genre - a produced, hospitality-run night rather than a stripped warehouse rave. Previewed here alongside the Amsterdam listing on Mood, with no rating assigned since the show hasn't happened yet.
Ronnie Scott's, London: The Verdict on Soho's Busiest Jazz Room
Ronnie Scott's is the Soho jazz club that has run at 47 Frith Street since 1965, and it remains London's busiest jazz booking by a wide margin - 48 confirmed nights in a recent month-long pull, nearly double the city's next-busiest room. Mood's own event data reads the club as polished and reservation-driven rather than underground: high seating and dining scores point to a dinner-and-show table model, and a below-average undergroundness reading confirms a heritage-jazz identity rather than a scene room. This review covers what the club actually books, what a night there costs in comfort and money, and which shows are on next.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Review: Marvel's Record-Breaker Still Fills Thessaloniki Screens
Spider-Man: Brand New Day overtook Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the highest-grossing domestic release ever, but critics and audiences split over it: a record 98% Rotten Tomatoes audience score against a comparatively soft 90% from critics, many pointing to how much runtime Sadie Sink's Jean Grey reveal takes from Peter Parker's own arc. Nine weeks after release, Mood's Thessaloniki listings still show 12 screenings across three cinemas this week, fourth by volume in the city's current 31-title programme, right behind Resident Evil and Minions & Monsters.
Villagers of Ioannina City at Lazaristes Monastery, Thessaloniki: What to Expect
Villagers of Ioannina City, the Epirus band that fuses clarinet-led folk with stoner and psychedelic rock, play Lazaristes Monastery in Thessaloniki on September 26, 2026, eight days into the release week of their new album Venceremos - their first studio record in six years. The date sits outside the band's already-completed spring European tour, making it a standalone home-market show rather than a tour stop. Mood's data reads the night as unusually local and un-underground for a stoner-rock booking, a seated monastery show rather than a club-style rock night. Tickets run through High Priority on Ticketmaster Greece, and the show is listed on Mood alongside the rest of Thessaloniki's September calendar.
Parallel Tales Review: Farhadi's Cannes Provocation Fills Athens Screens
Asghar Farhadi's Parallel Tales (Histoires Parallèles) premiered at Cannes 2026 to a seven-minute standing ovation and a critical mauling - Rotten Tomatoes has it at 19 percent, Metacritic at 41. Isabelle Huppert leads as a novelist spying on her neighbors, with Virginie Efira, in a praised dual role, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Catherine Deneuve. Four months on, it is the widest-playing non-blockbuster title in Athens: 78 screenings across 23 venues, from the arthouse screen Cinobo Opera to the city's last open-air cinemas of the season. Full showtimes and cinema listings are on Mood.
An Club, Athens: The Verdict on Exarcheia's Longest-Running Rock Room
An Club is a basement rock, metal and punk venue in Athens's Exarcheia neighbourhood, running since the mid-1980s and still one of the city's busiest bookings for touring and local heavy bands. Mood's own event data shows the club logged 30 confirmed nights of live music in a recent 90-day window, second only to Kyttaro among Athens venues, with an undergroundness score nearly double the citywide average. The room offers little seating and no dining, built entirely around the stage rather than around comfort. This review covers what makes An Club distinct, what it asks of a first-time visitor, and which shows are booked next.
Jamboree, Barcelona: The Verdict on Plaça Reial's Jazz Club After Midnight
Jamboree is a jazz club in Barcelona's Plaça Reial that has booked live jazz, blues and soul sets every evening since 1960, making it the oldest jazz venue in Spain, before the same 220-person cellar turns into a hip-hop, R&B and dancehall club after midnight. Now run by the Mas i Mas Group, it books more dates than any other Barcelona room in Mood's data, splitting almost evenly between the two identities. Mood's review weighs both sides: the jazz program's history and acoustics, the late-night club circuit's consistency, and the honest limits of a small, single-stairwell room that was never built for a big crowd.
Mau P at Brooklyn Army Terminal: The Verdict on a Sold-Out Seven-Hour Set
Mau P's Baddest Behaviour show is the Dutch tech-house producer's touring open-to-close format, and on 12 September 2026 it sold out Pier 4 at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, for a seven-hour solo set. Mood's own enrichment data on the booking reads more commercial and polished, and less raw, than the average techno or tech-house night tracked across New York City this month - a produced, festival-adjacent show rather than the underground warehouse rave its industrial setting implies. A separate Sunday date, rescheduled from the original Friday, brought techno veteran Joseph Capriati into the weekend instead. Mood tracks the lineup, venue and ticket details for both nights and others like them across the city.
Marcel Dettmann at Academy LA: The Verdict on a Berghain Resident in Hollywood's Big Room
Marcel Dettmann is a Berghain resident since 2004 and one of techno's most disciplined DJs, known for track-based sets built on the sequencing instincts of Berlin's Hard Wax record store rather than crowd theatrics. On September 19 he headlined Academy LA on Hollywood Boulevard alongside Sol Ortega, Perel and local selector John Bryars, a booking Mood's own data reads as unusually mainstream for the genre: the night's undergroundness score sits well below the Los Angeles techno and house average, while its capacity and polish scores run closer to a festival stage than a basement club. Full details on the show and venue are on Mood.