Music enthusiasts of all kinds will love a trip to the Cité de la Musique. Housing concerts, exhibitions, a library, and an excellent museum tracing the history of musical instruments, the Cité is the cultural center for musical life [more...]

You can't help but move to the music at Cuba Compagnie Café. Listen to live Latin music while enjoying delicious cocktails and food from sunnier places: Spanish tapas, Cuban paella, seafood, and more. Special evenings are organized [more...]

Lou Pascalou hosts a short film night on the first Wednesday of each month, a poetry slam on second Tuesdays, art exhibitions on its walls, and live music on weekends (especially Sundays). But it's also a great space to just meet up [more...]

Opened as the city's first workers' cooperative in 1877, La Bellevilloise is still a center for creative expression in a festive atmosphere. Reestablished in 2005 with a fresh new face-lift, this 3-story, multi-purpose venue with lots [more...]

You know a venue has attracted a certain underground scene in Paris when it's webpage is only found on MySpace. Le Motel is a bar in the hipster 11th arrondissement with DJ's playing idie rock till 1h45am Tuesday-Sunday. Opens at 6pm [more...]

At the heart of Parisian counterculture on the rue Oberkampf, the large, industrial Café Charbon and adjacent Nouveau Casino club get crowded on weekend nights, when it's open until dawn. Live rock concerts are until 1, then DJ's play [more...]

La Goutte d'or (or "the golden drop") is a neighborhood that spans parts of the 18th and 10th arrondissements, just on the other side of Montmartre.

From June to September, a myriad of music festivities take place in the [more...]

For a mellow Monday in the spirit of Django Reinhardt come on down to the not so crowded Taverne de Cluny. The gathering stretches from somewhere around 9pm to somewhere around midnight. Never a disappointment for enthusiasts. [more...]

For a real taste of old France – that is, the France of today’s old Frenchmen and women – take your date to Le Vieux Belleville, a bistro that unites traditional food with traditional music every night. Accordion, Maurice [more...]

If you take your date to visit the museum of great composer Erik Satie, you’ll be able to say you visited the world’s smallest museum. Indeed, the tiny space is called the “placard,” or closet. Free (thank goodness), but by [more...]

Throughout spring and summer, tons of free concerts (and sometimes plays) take place under the “kioskes,” or covered performance spaces, in Paris’ public parks. Sometimes it’s local chorals, sometimes it’s internationally [more...]

Serge Gainsbourg fans should rendezvous at Marilou’s bar (in the 11eme), which is entirely Gainsbourg themed thanks to its devoted fan of an owner. Free concerts take place on the weekends. 72 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. (For [more...]

Every summer, the Chopin festival comes to Paris. Whether or not you’re a connaisseur, no matter; discover the composer together through a large offering of concerts at the Bagatelle park throughout June and July. Check the schedule [more...]

Follow in the steps of Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso and Baudelaire at Le Divan du Monde. It reopened in the 90s as a classy concert venue with diverse shows ranging from electronica to world music. The design of the bar side is a gorgeous [more...]

If you like music festivals but aren’t a big fan of camping in a field for several days, Paris has got the perfect solution. Every year, late August, Rock En Seine takes place in the Parc de St. Cloud (accessible by metro) for two [more...]

Elvis lovers must make a pilgrimage to the incredible “Elvis My Happiness” store, where they will literally find anything Elvis their little hearts desire. It is run by the fan club of the same name, which stages Elvis-related [more...]

Le Point Ephémère looks and feels a lot like a squat, but it’s really a bar-restaurant that’s taken over an old warehouse on the Canal Saint Martin. Still, the spirit is there. Tons of concerts (indie music, electro…) take place [more...]

Fans of the famous French songbird will enjoy a date at the Musée Edith Piaf, a small little museum that gathers all her dresses, photos, posters, letters… Entrance is free, but you have to call ahead and reserve: [more...]

A great authentically Irish band plays at Kitty O’Shea’s (metro Opera) on most Sunday evenings. This pub is rarely that busy, so it’s a good place to actually talk during a date while hearing some good music. The bartenders and [more...]

Le Cabaret Sauvage is one of the most romantic music venues in town for a date, located under a big circus-y tent in the cool Parc de la Villette. It hosts the “Folles Nuits Berberes” balls (a great dancing music, trapeze artists [more...]