Live Music entertainment in Berlin
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Yorckschlösschen
This knick-knack-laden watering hole has plied an all-ages, all comers crowd of jazz and blues lovers with tunes and booze for over a century. There's live music on Wednesday and weekends, pub grub till 1am, a pool table out back and a garden in summer.
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White Trash Fast Food
Edgy and borderline insane, this ex-Irish pub with Chinese flourishes attracts a rock-and-roll crowd and often teems with US expats scarfing tasty burgers to stave off homesickness (and, possibly, hang-overs). DJs or live bands playing punk, rock or new wave in the bar-restaurant area can make conversation challenging. On some nights, raucous indie acts also take over the cavernous Diamond Lounge downstairs.
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Kato
This former department store below the elevated U-Bahn tracks is now a rockin’ hard place for indie and alt-sounds, from noise pop to ska to mash-ups. Drinks are cheap and the crowd of scruffy party patrons, faux-hawked hipsters and skinny-jeansters keeps attitude to a minimum. Rock-It Tuesdays and Thursdays are parties with cult status.
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Magnet
Small, cheap and dingy, this indie bastion is known for bookers with an astronomer's vision to detect stars in the making. LCD Soundsystem and The Presets had early performances here. After the show, the rambling, multi-floor venue morphs into a dance club with DJs hopscotching from punk to pop to electro.
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B-Flat
Cool cats of all ages come out to this intimate venue where you'll be quite literally sitting within spitting distance of the performers. The emphasis is on acoustic music; mostly jazz, world beats, Afro-Brazilian and other soundscapes. Wednesday's free jam session often brings down the house.
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Knaack
This 1952-vintage warren started out as a GDR-era youth club and is still going strong with the youngster set who come to check out up-and-coming indie, punk and rock bands (mostly from Berlin and eastern Germany) or to turn those hormones loose during the dance parties and karaoke nights.
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A-Trane
Herbie Hancock and Diana Krall have anointed the stage of this intimate jazz club but mostly it's emerging talent bringing their A-game to the A-Trane. Entry is free on Monday when local boy Andreas Schmidt is playing, and after 12.30am on Saturday for the late-night jam session.
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Quasimodo
Berlin’s oldest jazz club has diversified its programming and now also features blues, rock, soul, salsa and even disco acts. Its petite size puts you close to the stage, but the low ceiling, black walls and, often, capacity crowds can be just a tad too claustrophobic.
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Dot Club
If you want to catch tomorrow's bands today, head to this newish club, which does triple-duty as concert hall, recording studio and restaurant. It also does party nights and jam sessions, all amid superb acoustics and decor teetering somewhere between kitsch and cult.
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Junction Bar
Live gigs 365 days a year – the Junction is famed for the musical maelstrom in its basement, where you’ll find a rowdy crowd bopping their heads to such alchemies of sound as neosoul, post-trip-hop, noise-pop and gypsy-ska. Nightly DJs follow the bands.
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Wild at Heart
Named for a David Lynch road movie, this one-room kitsch-cool dive hammers home punk, rock, ska and rockabilly. Touring bands, including such top acts as Girlschool and Dick Dale, bring in the tattooed set several times weekly.
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Konzerthaus Berlin
Another supreme music venue, the Schinkel-designed Konzerthaus has the Konzerthausorchester as its 'house band' but others, such as the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, perform here as well.
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Lido
A 1950s cinema has been recycled into a rock-indie-electro-pop mecca with mosh-pit electricity and a crowd that cares more about the music than about looking good.
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