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Abaton
This enormous, atmospheric warehouse complex hosts everything from Prodigy concerts and dance-music awards to the annual Sperm electronic music festival and benefit gigs for Tibet. Although it's out in the industrial wastelands, it's worth the trip for its array of scenes - chic cocktail bars, down-and-dirty table football and more - throughout its warren of bars and rooms.
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AghaRTA Jazz Centrum
Agharta has been staging top-notch modern Czech jazz, blues, funk and fusion since 1991, but only moved into this very central Old Town venue in 2004. A typical jazz cellar with red-brick vaults and a cosy bar and café, it hosts local and international artists. The centre also contains a music shop (open to ).
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Baráčnická Rychta
Atmospherically tucked away behind Nerudova along a winding Malá Strana street, this 19th-century beer hall feels a bit furtive and secretive - at least for this neck of the woods. In the small upstairs bar you can sup four types of Svijanský beer as well as the more common Pilsner Urquell; food is also served. Downstairs, the larger Cabaret Hall hosts big bands and offbeat live gigs.
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Bombay Cocktail Bar
This spacious central bar is always going to be a little mainstream - and a lot too loud! - for some tastes, but it's such a ridiculously popular meet-up spot, you probably should know where it is. Reasonably strong cocktails fuel a happy atmosphere and even a little dancing. (No stag parties allowed.)
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Chateau L'enfer Rouge
Chateau is a raucous, late-night party pub where the cheap(ish) beer, table football, pinball machines and dance-club cellar never fails to pull in a huge, mixed crowd of tourists, stag parties, expats and slumming Praguers - by mid-evening it's often standing-room only. Everything in this self-consciously cool bar is backlit, including the smiles of the clientele.
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Cross Club
An eclectic programme from D&B, jungle, dub and reggae to electro, techno and live music goes on in this bar, but the main attraction is the venue itself. Both the ground floor and basement of a rundown apartment block have been transformed into a work of industrial or sci-fi art, with glowing homemade lighting installations, kinetic sculptures formed from bits of junk metal, film reels, engine parts and even a bus outside. Alternative and unique.
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Duende
Bedecked with intriguing photos and all matter of quirky ephemera, this bohemian drinking den attracts an arty, local crowd of all ages. They come for a chat, a glass of wine or to take in acoustic music performances, from guitar to violin.
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Klub 007 Strahov
Klub 007 is a grungy student club in the basements of one of the big dormitory blocks in Strahov, near the rundown Strahov Stadium. The legendary 007 has been around since 1987, when it was a focus for underground music, and is now famed for its devotion to hardcore, punk and ska.
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Lucerna Music Bar
Wey-hey! At a Friday or Saturday night's 1980s/'90s video party here, you might almost think you were in northern England, as weekending easyJet-setters who knew these tunes the first time around rub shoulders with fresh-faced Erasmus students, who didn't. It's a bit of mindless fun in an unpretentious school-disco-type atmosphere. On other nights, this old theatre hosts frequent live gigs.
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Misch Masch
Good-time house and hip-hop is found at sticky-floored Misch Masch. Turn left for the large house area, with both female and (shock!) male podium dancers. To the right is the slightly more intimate hip-hop floor, bar and gallery. Fashionable without any unnecessary attitude, the place is popular with up-fer-it young locals, overseas students and a few older weekend-breakers. Watch for special themed evenings, too.
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Palác Akropolis
This huge Prague institution is a sticky-floored shrine to alternative music and drama with a broad cross section of regulars. Its trump card is its innovative roster of gigs, from Boban Markovic to Sigur Ros to the Strokes. Otherwise, when the 850-capacity concert hall is shut and all you have is the speakeasy vibe in the two smaller DJ bars, the place's appeal might be a bit difficult for newcomers to fathom.
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Popocafépetl Music Club
The latest branch of this popular minichain is a small club and live music venue promising a deliberately eclectic mix: blues, Balkan, drum 'n' bass, ska, punk and more.
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Reduta Jazz Club
Prague's oldest jazz club was founded in 1958 during the communist era, but is best known as the venue where US president Bill Clinton played the saxophone in 1994. It has an intimate setting, with smartly dressed (and sometimes bored-looking) patrons squeezing into tiered seats and lounges to soak up the big-band, swing and dixieland atmosphere. You can also book ahead through www.ticketpro.cz.
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Roxy
The expansive floor of this ramshackle old theatre has seen many a hard-edged DJ and band over the years, plus plenty of experimental fare in the form of drama, dance and short films. All shadowy nooks and crannies usually fill up quickly once the doors open.
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Rudolfinum
Despite a surprisingly small stage, the neo-Renaissance Rudolfinum's main Dvořák Hall has good acoustics and the cachet to attract internationally acclaimed troupes. Home to the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the venue's excellent reputation is also boosted by their sterling musicianship.
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U Malého Glena
'Little Glen's' really is - little that is, so get here early. Yet it's the intimate size that makes this American-owned jazz/blues venue (and restaurant) so vital. Performers like Stan the Man put their heart and soul into entertaining an audience mere centimetres away. Amateurs are welcome at the regular jam sessions (as long as you're good!).
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Vagon
Old Czech rockers never die; they just go to Vagon ('wagon'). But they're joined by plenty of youngsters in this long, narrow venue, where stencils of heroes like Mick Jagger watch from the walls while folk-punk groups, Red Hot Chilli Pepper cover bands or crusty old Velvet Revolution legends the Plastic People of the Universe take the stage for the nightly gigs. Look for the passageway beside KFC.
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Wakata
There's no designer chic or style statements in this small, laid-back DJ lounge, full of colourful urban wall murals and some interestingly welded barstools. Enjoy inexpensive beers and cocktails as you bop along to a nightly soundtrack of funk, latin, dub, ambient, jungle, reggae or hip hop.
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