Underground Music
Editorial
Things to Do in New York Tonight: How to Find What's On
Things to do in New York tonight are spread across dozens of venues and genres rather than a single scene, which makes a flat listings site hard to use. This guide walks through a real Saturday night sample from Mood's own New York data - 62 events across ten genres, from dancehall and reggaeton parties tied to the Jamaican Day Parade to a techno night in Chelsea and a Hudson River latin cruise - and explains how to filter Mood's New York listings by genre, date and neighborhood to find tonight's options instead of scrolling every event on the calendar.
New York Student Guide: Housing, Transit, and Live Music on a Budget
A New York student guide to what matters before term starts: where NYU and Columbia students actually live, what rent runs in Greenwich Village, the East Village, Morningside Heights, and Harlem, and what a subway ride costs under the MTA's 2026 fare rules. It also covers where to find live music that fits a student budget, drawing on Mood's New York event data - including jazz clubs and independent hip-hop and R&B showcases with low commerciality scores. Mood is a live-music discovery platform tracking thousands of events a month across New York, built to help students find shows that fit their schedule and their wallet.
Music Events in New York: October 2026
Music events in New York for October 2026 include Harry Styles's Madison Square Garden residency carrying into a second month, Smashing Pumpkins and Brand New anchoring Barclays Center, and Don Omar's farewell tour crossing from Brooklyn to Newark's Prudential Center on back-to-back nights. Mood tracks 5,100 listings across the metro area this month, and jazz remains the single most-applied genre tag in the data at 1,164 listings, ahead of electronic and hip hop, carried by rooms like Smalls Jazz Club and Mezzrow that run multiple ticketed sets nightly. Forest Hills Stadium closes out its outdoor season with FISHER's two-night closing weekend.
Best Clubs in New York: Where the City Actually Dances
The best clubs in New York sit almost entirely in Brooklyn and Queens, and they split into three circuits that work nothing alike. Mood lists 2,341 dance-tagged events across the metro area between August 7th and September 30th, for 2026, and the two highest-volume venues are not clubs at all but the Skyport Marina and Pier 78 boat departures on the Hudson. The Bushwick underground - Bossa Nova Civic Club, Signal, Jupiter Disco, 3 Dollar Bill - runs small, resident-led rooms, while Knockdown Center, Elsewhere and Public Records cover the larger and stranger end of the city's dance programming.
ADE 2026 Timetable: Who Plays When, and Where
Amsterdam Dance Event has no single timetable - the ADE 2026 schedule is assembled by several hundred independent promoters, and exists only as the sum of their listings. Mood carries 301 confirmed events for October 21st-25th across 105 venues and 769 named artists. The defining feature of the week is compression: 82 of those events start at 23:00, with 28 beginning simultaneously on the Friday. Ninety-four artists are booked more than once and ten three or more times, including Octo Octa, DJ Nobu and Gene On Earth, which is where the second chances are if the first booking clashes.
Erasmus in Athens: The Starter Pack
The practical starter pack for an Erasmus semester in Athens: the five neighbourhoods that make sense (Zografou and Ilisia by the campuses, Pagrati, Kypseli, Exarchia), indicative studio rents of 300-650 euros, the 15-euro student monthly transport pass, and the paperwork that actually matters - the academic ID. For the part Athens does best, Mood has logged more than 24,000 events in the city and this summer's 2,000+ open-air cinema screenings, from warehouse clubs in Gazi to rebetiko tavernas.
The search for tickets now starts at resale
Worldwide searches for 'ticket resale' hit their highest level Google has ever recorded in June 2026. Fans no longer end up on resale platforms when primary sales fail; increasingly, they start there. That makes resale the de facto discovery layer of live music, a layer whose revenue scales with scarcity and markup. Last week's class action against StubHub and its CEO, and April's antitrust verdict against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, show why a first stop that shows the whole market at face value matters more than ever.
Christian & Gospel Concerts in Los Angeles: A Guide to the City's Faith-Based Shows
Christian and gospel concerts in Los Angeles are the ticketed, live-music side of the city's faith scene - worship-night tours, gospel day parties and gospel-choir shows that sit apart from Sunday services. In Mood's data they run across very different rooms, from worship nights at the downtown Novo to the Eagle Rock Gospel Singers out at Pappy & Harriet's in the high desert. The liveliest corner is the gospel day party: the Gospel Melodies Day Party at Los Globos reads 0.8 on both energy and danceability, closer to a club night than a service. It is a small but real niche, and Mood pulls the shows into one calendar so they are easier to find.
Emo Nights in London
Emo nights in London are a recurring circuit of themed club nights built on 2000s emo, pop-punk and midwest emo - sing-along, dancefloor-driven nights rather than gigs. The format is DJ-led, built on the My Chemical Romance and Paramore era rather than a live band. In Mood's data the city's listings resolve into branded nights that return - It's Not A Phase Mom!, Face Down, American Pie Emo Night - rather than one-offs, and they read high on energy and danceability, with PIXELATE: Swag vs Emo at 0.9 on both. Mood pulls the whole circuit into one calendar with venue, date and a link out.
Underground & Warehouse Raves in Los Angeles
Underground and warehouse raves in Los Angeles are the non-commercial end of the city's dance scene - art-space, Downtown loft and warehouse nights that run outside the big-promoter circuit. This is deliberately the scene the large listings under-cover: not arena EDM, but the harder-to-find rooms passed by word of mouth. In Mood's data these nights sit at the very top of the undergroundness scale, around 0.9 for RECOLLECT UNDERGROUND and the Pauhaus art-gallery show, with high danceability alongside it. Mood pulls the city's underground and warehouse calendar into one feed with venue, date and a link out.
Cumbia Events in Los Angeles: Where to Dance the City's Latin Nights
Cumbia in Los Angeles is one of the city's deepest Latin dance scenes, running from East LA community dancefloors to Downtown dive bars and Hollywood clubs. It spans live bands, sonidero sound-system nights and club sets that fold cumbia into reggaeton and perreo. In Mood's data, 43 cumbia-tagged nights run across roughly 30 LA venues this month, and across them danceability averages 0.86, well above the citywide median - the mark of a floor-first scene. Weekly anchors like Deliciosa Nights at Little Joy Cocktails in Echo Park and multi-room queer-inclusive nights like Klub Nocturno at Catch One sit alongside dive-bar staples La Cita and Footsies. Mood pulls the city's cumbia calendar into one place and updates it through the season.
Anime and Kawaii Raves in Los Angeles: The City's Weeb-Rave Nights
Anime and kawaii raves in Los Angeles are costume-friendly club nights built around anime, K-pop and Harajuku aesthetics, set to hyperpop and EDM. It is a small but distinct niche - a few touring rave brands rather than a weekly circuit - led by the Kawaii Rave series and themed one-offs like the Hello Kitty Rave. In Mood's data these events score at the very top of the scale on energy and danceability, the fingerprint of a full rave rather than a themed bar night. Mood pulls the city's anime and kawaii raves into one calendar with venue, date and a link out, so the next date is easy to find.