Underground Music
Editorial
Gretchen, Berlin: The Verdict on Kreuzberg's Genre-Blind Club
Gretchen is a live-music venue in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, built inside a walled 1854 stable block on the Dragonerareal site and running since 2011. Unlike Berlin rooms known for one sound, Gretchen's fifteen-year identity is refusing to specialise - booking melodic trap, afrobeats, jazz-funk and future-soul within the same month, including a 15 Years Gretchen anniversary run this autumn with Pi'erre Bourne and Romare x Wayne Snow. Mood's data shows the venue running above the Berlin average on booking capacity and selectivity, and below average on rawness despite the neighbourhood's DIY reputation. The trade-off: no single flagship weekly night to anchor a visit around. Mood tracks Gretchen's full calendar alongside the rest of Berlin's live music scene.
Bolivar Beach Bar, Athens: The Verdict on the Riviera's Biggest Stage
Bolivar Beach Bar runs four different weekly nights on Athens' Riviera - melodic house and techno on Thursdays, reggaeton on Sundays, hip-hop and afrobeat on Wednesdays - topped up with marquee touring headliners. Mood's enrichment data shows a commercial, sea-view circuit venue, not an underground one.
PRonX: Amsterdam's Melodic Fusion DJ, Reviewed
PRonX is the stage name of Ronald Pronk, an Amsterdam DJ whose Melodic Fusion radio show and residencies at PRIK, Café Brandon and Cafe The Queenshead have made him a fixture of the city's queer nightlife circuit since 2020. Mood's booking data traces his path through Amsterdam Dance Event showcases and Pride-season parties, where his sets consistently score at the ceiling of Mood's queerness index. This review weighs what two decades inside one scene actually built: a reliable, versatile generalist rather than a DJ with a singular signature sound. Mood tracks PRonX's upcoming Amsterdam bookings alongside the rest of the city's club calendar.
The Sisters of Mercy in Athens: A Review of the Floyd Show
The Sisters of Mercy, the Leeds band that turned gothic rock into a touring genre back in 1980, played Floyd in Athens on September 12th, working entirely from a catalogue that stopped growing after 1990's Vision Thing. Mood's enrichment data reads the show as more polished than most of the rock and gothic bill Athens runs this season, roughly as underground as an average night on that same calendar rather than the scene landmark its reputation suggests, and distinctly darker in mood than that comparison set. The result, reviewed here alongside Floyd's listing on Mood, is a professionally run legacy show built to sustain a following rather than win a new one.
Practical Magic 2 Review: Nostalgia Carries a Sequel the Story Can't
Practical Magic 2 reunites Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as the Owens sisters, twenty-eight years after the original, with Sally choosing to hide the family's witch history from her own daughters after her husband dies from the Owens curse. Critics have been unimpressed - a Rotten Tomatoes score in the high 30s - while audiences have responded far more warmly, above 90%, largely on the strength of Bullock and Kidman's chemistry rather than the story around them. In Mood's data, it's also this week's widest release in Athens: 39 screenings across 29 cinemas and open-air venues, ahead of Fatherland and The Odyssey. Full listings are on Mood.
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Los Angeles: Dine-In Seats and Repertory Programming
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Downtown Los Angeles is a dine-in movie theater in the Financial District where food and drinks are served at the seat during the film, alongside a strict no-talking policy the chain has enforced since its 1997 Austin origins. In Mood's data, the venue carries 113 upcoming screenings across 59 films, and at least 55 of those screenings, spanning 38 titles, are repertory or revival bookings rather than day-and-date new releases - everything from Akira and Ghost in the Shell to Terminator 2 and Beetlejuice sharing a calendar with current theatrical titles. Mood tracks the full schedule.
Premium Movie Theaters in Los Angeles: IMAX, 4DX and ScreenX Guide
A premium-format movie theater is built around one specific technology - IMAX's taller image, 4DX's motion seats and environmental effects, or ScreenX's panoramic wraparound picture - rather than a standard screen and fixed seating. Los Angeles runs twelve of these rooms in Mood's tracked cinema data: two Cinepolis IMAX locations (Inglewood and Westlake), one CinemaWest complex in El Segundo combining 4DX, ScreenX and a giant screen, and nine Cinemark theaters built around the XD format, stretching from Carson and Downey to North Hollywood. Together they carry 1,376 screenings against 12,258 tracked citywide across 170 Los Angeles movie theaters. Mood maps every one of these formats by neighborhood, alongside the city's standard multiplexes and independent screens.
Laemmle Movie Theaters in Los Angeles: A Guide to All Six Locations
Laemmle is Los Angeles's dedicated arthouse movie theater chain, a family-run operator founded in 1938 that specializes in independent, foreign-language and documentary releases. In Mood's data, six Laemmle locations - NoHo 7, Glendale, Monica Film Center, Town Center 5, Royal and Newhall - carry 350 confirmed upcoming screenings between them, split unevenly: NoHo 7 alone runs 98, well ahead of Glendale's 64, while Newhall's published calendar is currently the thinnest and shortest-range of the six. Programming varies room to room, from Glendale's documentary-and-music lean to Newhall's rare mainstream studio bookings. Mood lists every Laemmle screening in Los Angeles.
LGBTQ+ Events in Amsterdam: A Guide to the City's Queer Nightlife
LGBTQ+ events in Amsterdam run mostly through a handful of dedicated venues rather than a single nightlife strip. Club Church on Kerkstraat hosts three weekly queer nights (Naked Bar, Blue and the underwear party (z)onderbroek), all reading a perfect 1.0 on Mood's queerness feature. TILLA TEC brings the queer disco collective Horse Meat Disco on 9 October and closes Amsterdam Dance Event on 24 October with a queer-coded showcase featuring THE GAYNG. Sissi's Amsterdam spans nu-disco, tech-house and monthly Cuban salsa across the same queer-friendly floor. Mood tracks all three venues with current line-ups, door times and ticket links for anyone looking for queer nightlife in Amsterdam beyond the Pride-weekend calendar.
Who Is Pogány Induló? The Hungarian Rapper Reviving Old-School Rap
Pogány Induló is the stage name of Szirmai Marcell, a Szeged, Hungary-born rapper who broke through in 2022 with old-school, sample-based rap rather than the trap-and-autotune sound common among his peers. Born June 1, 2005, he has since won the Fonogram Award and the Artisjus Award, headlined Budapest's 20,000-capacity MVM Dome at 18, and released three studio albums, most recently Valamit Majd Kitalálok in April 2026. Mood's own data tracks one confirmed live date for him outside Hungary, a February 2026 show in Amsterdam, and rates him well above that single booking on commerciality, reflecting a fanbase still concentrated almost entirely inside Hungary.
Who Is Bankzitters? The Dutch YouTube Group Now Filling Ziggo Dome
Bankzitters is a five-member Dutch group, Robbie van de Graaf, Milo ter Reegen, Raoul de Graaf, Koen van Heest and Matthyas het Lam, that began as a YouTube channel in 2017 and became a chart act after Je Blik Richting Mij topped the Dutch Top 100 in 2022. Since then they released two EPs, topped the charts again with Huisfeestje alongside Roxy Dekker, and repeatedly sold out Ziggo Dome, including a record seven-night residency booked for February 2027. Mood's own booking data tracks fifteen confirmed Bankzitters dates, from that arena run to festival bills with DI-RECT and Lil Kleine, and its enrichment model still reads the fanbase as concentrated mostly in the Netherlands and Flanders despite a fast-growing world tour.
Halloween Parties in Bucharest: 2026 Guide
Bucharest's Halloween nightlife for 2026 has grown from two confirmed events in early September to twelve by October 1st, across eight venues: Forge's hard-techno Schissma night, two bookings at Berăria H Herăstrău (a Michael Jackson tribute and a DJ-led costume party), a four-night run at #altfel Unirii, a retro disco night at Fratelli Studios, an Arabic-music rooftop party at Guan Rooftop, a private tech-house night at Kaya Holistic, and a family pumpkin festival at Alexandru Ioan Cuza Park. Every booking carries its own Halloween-specific ticket link and lineup rather than a general October listing stretched to fit the date, and Mood's Bucharest events board updates as more nights get confirmed.