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What to expect from concerts and festivals in Athens, Thessaloniki, Amsterdam, Paris, Bucharest and more: lineups, dates, venues and how to get there.
Before a show, we write the guide we'd want to read ourselves: who's playing, when doors open, how to get there and what the room is like. We follow festivals from the lineup to the last train home, and we write up the venues that shape each city's sound and the scenes behind them. Once we've been and have an opinion, you'll find it in the reviews.
Austin City Limits 2026: The Lineup, and the 438 Shows Happening Around It
Austin City Limits 2026 runs two weekends at Zilker Park - 2nd -4th and 9th-11th of October - with Charli XCX, Rufus Du Sol, Twenty One Pilots, Lorde and The xx on both bills, Skrillex exclusive to Weekend One and Kings of Leon to Weekend Two. Friday is the pop and dance day, Saturday the strongest overall bill, Sunday the one for bands. Beyond the park, the festival runs 34 Official ACL Nights club shows at Stubb's, Emo's, Antone's and Historic Scoot Inn, and three ACL TV tapings at ACL Live are separate events entirely. Mood tracks 772 Austin events across 191 venues over the fortnight - 438 of them on festival days with no connection to ACL, weighted toward americana, country and blues.
Release Athens 2027: The Festival Leaves Plateia Nerou for Markopoulo
Release Athens moves from Plateia Nerou to Markopoulo Complex for its 2027 edition, announced 29th of September 2026, after ten years on the Faliro coast. The new site runs two stages - the second inside a tent of roughly 4,000 square metres - allowing more artists per festival day than the single-stage Plateia Nerou allowed. Access is via Attiki Odos or the metro to Koropi plus a shuttle bus, with parking for several thousand vehicles. The Neighbourhood are the first name announced, playing Greece for the first time on Friday 25th of June 2027. Tickets go on sale Thursday 1st of October at 12:00 from EUR 65, with limited VIP from EUR 250.
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.
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.
Current 93 in Berlin: A Review of the Sold-Out silent green Show
Current 93, David Tibet's long-running apocalyptic folk project, plays a sold-out Sonic Morgue show at silent green Kulturquartier in Berlin on September 26th, staged in a converted hall beneath the site's former crematorium. English folk singer-songwriter Reg Meuross opens. Mood's enrichment data reads the booking as unusually underground and low on danceability for the city's current calendar, and this review, alongside Mood's listing for the show, argues that a sold-out night this far from mainstream turnover says more about Tibet's cult following than about any single track or record.
Trueno at Palau Sant Jordi: What to Expect from the Barcelona Show
Trueno, the Argentine rapper who moved from Buenos Aires freestyle battles to Latin trap's biggest stages, plays Barcelona's Palau Sant Jordi on October 13th 2026 as part of the city's Cruilla Tardor autumn concert series. Mood's data reads the show at 0.9 on vocality and a full 1.0 on seating, with a locality score well above the average for arena-scale bookings currently on Barcelona's calendar - an unusually rooted reading for a touring international date. Tickets go through Songkick as the official provider. Mood lists the date, venue and lineup alongside the rest of Barcelona's autumn concert calendar.
Erasmus in Thessaloniki: The Starter Pack
The practical starter pack for an Erasmus semester in Thessaloniki: which of the city's three host universities (Aristotle, University of Macedonia, or the International Hellenic University) decides your neighbourhood and your welcome-week chapter, indicative studio rents of 270-520 euros, and the roughly 8-euro student transport pass that covers OASTH buses and the metro. It also covers what changes for non-EU students on the residence-permit side. For the music side, Mood tracks 70 events across Thessaloniki this September, from a K-pop night at Lazaristes Monastery to four English-language touring acts booked at WE.
The World of Hans Zimmer: A New Dimension at The O2, London: What to Expect
Hans Zimmer's arena production The World of Hans Zimmer: A New Dimension plays The O2 in London on October 12th, 2026, conducted live by Matt Dunkley with the Odessa Orchestra & Friends and the Nairobi Chamber Chorus, since Zimmer himself curates the series rather than performing on stage. The show pairs new orchestral arrangements of his film scores with synced projections, distinct from the smaller Candlelight tribute concerts also running in London this year. Tickets go through AXS, and the full listing, including venue and scheduling details, is on Mood alongside London's wider orchestral and film-score calendar.
London's Outdoor Concert Venues: Crystal Palace, Finsbury Park, Burgess Park and Wembley Stadium
A reference guide to London's four main outdoor concert sites - Crystal Palace Bowl and Crystal Palace Park, Finsbury Park, Burgess Park and Wembley Stadium - covering what each venue is, the kind of acts it typically books, and honest notes on transport and atmosphere. The 2026 outdoor season at the three parks wrapped by mid-August, so this covers what those venues hosted this summer rather than what's on right now; Wembley Stadium is the exception, with stadium shows running into September. Mood's own venue and event data, including comparative undergroundness and energy readings across the four sites, informs the picture. Full current listings for London, indoor and outdoor, stay live on Mood.
Skyport Marina, New York: Everything You Need to Know
Skyport Marina is a marina and yacht-charter dock at East 23rd Street on Manhattan's East River that has become New York's busiest hub for themed boat parties, with promoters chartering yachts like Cabana, Harmony, Jewel, and Harbor Lights for genre-specific sailings - reggaeton and Latin cruises on weekends, Bollywood and Desi-themed nights, a long-running Tuesday boom bap sailing, and a smaller house and tech house presence midweek. Mood's enrichment data shows the average Skyport departure scoring far above the citywide average on outdoor and view, reflecting the open-water skyline setting that defines every sailing regardless of genre. Mood tracks the marina's confirmed upcoming cruises with links through to each promoter's official ticket source.
What's in Mood's guides?
What to expect from the concerts and festivals coming up, with the lineup, dates, venue and how to get there, plus guides to the venues and scenes in the cities we cover. We write them before the night, so you can decide if it's for you.
Is a guide the same as a review?
No. A guide comes out before the show and tells you what to expect. A review comes out after, from someone who was there, and carries our score. You'll find those under event, artist, venue and movie reviews.
Where do I get tickets for a show in a guide?
Every guide links to the event on Mood, with the date, the venue and the ticket link once the organiser has published one.