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Concerts, club nights and festivals
Where to hear it, who's playing and whether it was worth it: our guides to concerts, club nights and festivals, and our reviews once we've been. Browse by genre, or open Mood to see what's on tonight.
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City Guide Electronic Music in Miami: Inside the Club Space Circuit
Miami's electronic music scene concentrates in five rooms - Club Space, Floyd Miami, E11EVEN, The Trip and ZeyZey Miami - that carry 224 upcoming bookings between them, about 41 percent of every electronic-leaning event Mood tracks in the city. Club Space, running since 2000, anchors the group physically, sharing a downtown building with Floyd and The Ground, while E11EVEN leans into hip-hop crossover and ZeyZey, five miles north, runs the busiest calendar of the five. A 15-event Satellite series spanning four of the venues runs October 14th - 18th around III Points Festival's closing weekend, including a Four Tet b2b Floating Points b2b Daphni date at Club Space. Current listings for all five venues are on Mood
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City Guide Music Events in Miami: What's On in October 2026
Miami's October 2026 music calendar splits into three circuits that rarely overlap - Latin pop and hip-hop arena shows at Kaseya Center (Camilo, Arcángel, TINI, Chayanne), a dense electronic club scene led by Club Space's Satellite series and Floyd Miami (Four Tet, Cloonee, 999999999), and a classical season built around the New World Symphony. Mood tracks 845 confirmed events across more than 100 venues this month. The club cluster alone - Club Space, Floyd Miami, E11EVEN, The Trip and ZeyZey Miami - accounts for 102 of the month's bookings, more than any other venue group in the city. Mood is an aggregator, pulling every confirmed Miami show into one feed with dates and ticket links.
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City Guide Americana Music in Austin: Inside the City's Real Honky-Tonk Circuit
Austin's reputation as the Live Music Capital of the World rests less on South by Southwest or Austin City Limits than on a nightly circuit of honky-tonks, dance halls, and songwriter rooms built around americana, roots rock, folk, country, and honky tonk - five genres that together tag more than a third of the 2,496 upcoming events Mood currently tracks in the city. The circuit runs across four distinct pockets of Austin, from Broken Spoke and the Continental Club on South Lamar and South Congress to the White Horse in East Austin, the Little Longhorn Saloon on Burnet Road, and Sam's Town Point south of Slaughter Lane, with weekly residencies that run independent of festival season.
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Guide 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.
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City Guide Live Music in Austin: Inside the City's Honky-Tonk and Americana Circuit for October 2026
Live music in Austin is defined by americana (31.5% of bookings), country, folk, roots rock and honky tonk, not by a single festival. Mood added Austin to its catalogue in September 2026 and now tracks 2,448 upcoming events across 283 venues, including 75 at The Continental Club and 319 at the lesser-known Sam's Town Point, the city's busiest room. Mood's enrichment data also shows the honky-tonk landmarks read as less 'underground' than a jazz basement most visitors skip. The full October calendar is on Mood.
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City Guide Music Events in Tallinn: What's On in October 2026
Tallinn is a live-music city built around concert halls, not clubs. Mood tracks 714 upcoming events in the Estonian capital, most tagged classical, chamber or choral, anchored by Estonia Concert Hall and the Estonian National Opera. A smaller underground scene runs through Paavli Kultuurivabrik, alongside a community folk circuit at Nõmme Cultural Centre and two long-running dinner-cabaret residencies. This guide covers October 2026's real programming across all four layers, with Mood's own event data.
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City Guide Music Events in Budapest: A Guide to the City's Opera Houses and Club Scene
Budapest is a live-music city that runs two calendars at once: a subsidized classical and opera circuit at venues like the Hungarian State Opera, Müpa Budapest and the Liszt Academy, booked a season or more ahead, and an independent club and rock circuit at Akvárium Klub, Dürer Kert and A38 that turns over week to week. Mood added Budapest to its catalogue in September 2026 and is tracking 2,217 upcoming events across 238 venues in the city. This guide uses Mood's own event and venue data to cover both halves of that identity rather than reducing Budapest to either one.
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City Guide Music Events in Riga: What's On in October 2026
Music events in Riga in October 2026 run opera-first: Mood tracks 202 confirmed events across 54 venues, and the Latvian National Opera's twelve-date repertory run through Puccini, Strauss, Offenbach and Verdi is the single busiest booking sheet in the city. Elīna Garanča returns home for a concert with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra on the 25th of October, and a wider chamber, choral and contemporary-classical layer runs underneath the Opera's own listings. A smaller club circuit persists too - Klubs Depo's death-metal and stoner bills read far higher on Mood's undergroundness scale than anything else in the city, while a single techno date at POSEIDONS Club carries October's highest energy score. The full calendar updates daily on Mood.
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Editorial Who Are The Neighbourhood? The Band Behind 'Sweater Weather' Comes to Athens
The Neighbourhood formed in Newbury Park, California in 2011 and broke through with "Sweater Weather", a 2012 single that hit number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and found a second, larger audience on streaming a decade later. After four albums they went on indefinite hiatus in February 2022, announced their reunion in August 2025 and released (((((ultraSOUND))))) that November. Their first arena-scale world tour reaches Athens on Friday 25 June 2027, headlining the opening announcement of Release Athens 2027 at Markopoulo Complex - their first ever show in Greece. Tickets open Thursday 1 October at 12:00 from EUR 65.
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Guide 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.
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Editorial Who Is Rishikanth? The Actor Behind Coolie and Modha Rathri
Rishikanth is a Tamil-cinema actor who spent close to fifteen years in supporting and background roles - including Coolie, where he played Rishi opposite Rajinikanth, and Indian 2: Zero Tolerance, as Harish - before headlining his first film, Modha Rathri, in 2026. Mood's own catalogue tracks nineteen credited titles for him, from his 2018 debut in Hero through Dorothy, Karthik Subbaraj's September 2026 release. This profile traces that fifteen-year run, the roles that built his profile, and where to find his full filmography on Mood.
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City Guide LGBTQ+ Events in Athens: A Guide to the City's Queer Nightlife
LGBTQ+ events in Athens rarely announce themselves with the word queer. Mood's enrichment data flags 48 upcoming Athens events above its queerness threshold, and most carry no LGBTQ+ keyword in the name. This guide covers where that scene actually plays out: Sodade2 and Gazarte in Gazi, Death Disco and SMUT ATHENS in Kerameikos, Arch Club Live Stage in Tavros, and Romantso's rotating bills in the city center. Mood rates Death Disco's Bloody Pleasures at 1.0 on queerness and Romantso's six qualifying nights at an average of 0.75, both well above the citywide mean, with current dates and ticket links for each.
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City Guide LGBTQ+ Events in Los Angeles: A Guide to the City's Queer Nightlife
Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ nightlife spans three clusters rather than one gay district: West Hollywood's historic Santa Monica Boulevard strip, smaller DIY rooms across Silver Lake and the Eastside, and a Downtown-adjacent axis anchored by Catch One, a Pico Boulevard disco that opened in 1973 as one of the first Black-owned gay discotheques in the country. Many of the highest-scoring events on Mood's queerness dimension aren't titled "gay" or "queer" at all - a salsa social at Chica Bonita Lounge reads a full 1.0, and a Sunday R&B day party at Temple Grounds runs almost entirely outdoors. Mood tracks these events by venue and date across the city.
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City Guide 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.
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Guide 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.
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Guide 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.
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Guide 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.
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Venue Review 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.
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Guide 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.
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Venue Review 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.
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Venue Review 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.
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Event Review 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.
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Event Review 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.
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Event Review Untold Presents ARTBAT at Fratelli Studios, Bucharest - Review
ARTBAT is the Kyiv melodic techno duo of Artur Kryvenko and Vitaliy Limarenko, known for the breakout single "Mandrake" and their remix of Monolink's "Return to Oz." On 18 September 2026 they headlined Untold presents ARTBAT at Fratelli Studios in Bucharest, with Omiki and PolTom in support. Mood's enrichment data reads the night as a big-room, high-capacity booking, 0.2 on undergroundness and 0.67 on commerciality, both well outside the city's usual electronic-event averages, closer to a festival-brand showcase than a scene night. Mood tracks the event alongside ongoing techno and house coverage across Bucharest.