31 Bangkok venues listed as playing live music.
Hidden behind a vintage photo booth, this modern speakeasy combines nostalgic charm with inventive drinks. Step through the booth to uncover a cozy, dimly lit bar where cocktails blend Thai influences with international favorites.
Rooftop bar and Mediterranean dining venue on the 22nd floor of the Aira Hotel in Nana - but more of a party-restaurant than a quiet dinner spot. Great food paired with a genuine party vibe, a live saxophonist and DJ-driven nights, making it a top pick when you want good food AND a party.
Vintage Charm & Live Music in Silom. Blends old-school charm with warm, laid-back vibe. Vintage wood interiors, low lighting, nostalgic atmosphere. Diverse menu from refined bites like tuna tartare and calamari to premium dishes such as Australian wagyu, paired with craft cocktails and high-quality Belgian beers. Live music fills the space each night.
Local favorite and one of Bangkok's hottest nightlife spots. Located in Ekkamai, blending stylish nightlife vibe with live music and weekend parties. Menu offers Thai and international dishes with cocktails.
Two-story nightlife spot that starts as a sing-along bar and ends as a dance party. Ground floor features live bands covering Thai and international favorites, upper level has DJs spinning hip-hop and EDM as the night builds.
Modern-industrial bar blending daylight cafe with after-hours cocktail hideout. Features playful neon, rotating photo gallery, inventive seasonal drinks, and fusion kitchen with Thai, Japanese, and Italian touches. Live music most nights creates a chill neighborhood atmosphere.
Live-music venue located behind modest entrance, opens into cavern-like room with red-brick arches and low ceilings, attracts diverse crowd of locals, students, and travelers.
A sophisticated 3-level jazz bar and cocktail lounge in Suan Phlu with a Parisian feel. Founded by American photographer David Jacobson, Smalls features exposed brickwork, contemporary art, dim red lighting, and intimate seating nooks. Live jazz performances ranging from modern jazz to soul, plus DJ sets. The rooftop terrace has its own bar. Ranked in the World's 50 Best Discovery list.
Elite - an upscale live-music venue in Thonglor with great cocktails and a KTV-style experience: private karaoke rooms with hostess entertainment. Reservations required; opens around 8pm and runs late.
The Office - a relaxed live-music bar and hangout in Thonglor (Soi 63), open from morning till late.
The Sportsman - a popular Sukhumvit sports bar & restaurant in Nana (The Trendy Building) with pool/billiards, big-screen sports, great cocktails, live music and outdoor seating.
HEKA is a cocktail bar at the Hilton Garden Inn Bangkok Silom in Bang Rak, serving craft cocktails (฿400-1,200) alongside live performances, dancing and food at the bar. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 7pm until late, with a nightly happy hour from 7-10pm.
Klub25 (also known as K25) is a high-energy disco club on Thong Lo Soi 25, known for big live-music nights, DJ sets and luxurious private KTV rooms. The upscale crowd comes for craft cocktails, bottle service and a dressed-up, see-and-be-seen party atmosphere. Open nightly from 8pm.
AIRE Bar crowns the 28th floor of Hyatt Place Bangkok Sukhumvit 24, just 250 meters from BTS Phrom Phong. Designed as a stylish vertical garden, it pairs a spacious alfresco terrace with more covered, intimate corners, plus comfy loungers and edge-side bar stools for panoramic skyline views. One side overlooks the bustle of Sukhumvit 24 while the other opens onto the greenery of Benjakiti Park. The atmosphere is casual and cool, moving between cosy lounging and a more vibrant bar buzz as the night goes on. The drinks list spans signature and classic cocktails, beers and champagne, matched with Asian and global bar bites at notably fair prices for a Bangkok rooftop. A 5-6pm happy hour (Sun-Thu) is timed for sunset, and entertainment includes live music on Saturdays and a DJ on Fridays. Dress code is smart casual, with no flip-flops, slippers, tank tops, shorts or sportswear. It also handles private events for up to 100 guests.
A live-music bar hidden on the 5th floor of NEXTOPIA inside Siam Paragon, opened in July 2026 and billed by the mall itself as one of its best-kept after-dark secrets. The room is styled as a night forest: a ceiling draped in hanging foliage, clusters of pale disc lamps floating like clouds, and a huge backlit moon disc behind the stage carrying the bar's astronaut logo. A live band plays every evening from 8 PM, with cocktails and a full kitchen running alongside - steaks, salads and Thai-leaning plates. The owners pitch it as a room that works whether you arrive with a group or on your own. Open daily from 5:30 PM until 2 AM.
Garden bar on the ground floor of the Anantara Siam, opening onto the hotel's Parichart Court courtyard. The room pairs a long lit bar with hanging greenery and mirror balls, and the seating extends outdoors under mature tropical planting. Cocktails are led by head mixologist Ryan Germino. The bar entered Asia's 50 Best Bars at number 48 in 2026.
Members' club and restaurant across the top two floors of JLK Tower on Sukhumvit, opened December 2025 under creative direction from Jackson Wang's Team Wang Design. Rong Supper Club serves modern Sichuan-Cantonese cuisine and dim sum from chef Benson Feng, Bar Won (from the team behind Seoul's Alice) pours the cocktail menu, and Yang's Club 94 is a members-only DJ room that opens later in the night, though that room has been closed for renovation since June 2026; the Founder's Lounge adds a wine cellar and cigar lounge. The restaurant and Bar Won take walk-in and non-member reservations, while Yang's Club, the private rooms and investors' lounge stay members-only. Also open for weekend lunch, Saturday and Sunday 12:00-15:00.
An open-air food and drink complex at the deep end of Sukhumvit 24, built around a curved copper bar under palms and woven pendant lamps. Several independent kitchens and bars share the same yard, which makes it a place to sit down and settle in rather than a single bar to pass through. Live performances run Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and the yard is open from 7am to 2am every day. The nightclub Upper House sits in the same complex, and 24 BLVD shares an operator with Baccarat and House of Savoy further along the soi.
An open-fronted live music bar on Sukhumvit Soi 7/1, a short walk from Nana BTS and marked from the street by an illuminated guitar-pick sign. Bands play nightly on a small wooden stage beneath a red ON AIR sign, and the line-up and genre change from day to day across rock, rhythm and blues, soul and funk. Inside it is white painted brick with a mural of rock and blues greats along one wall, high wooden tables, a brick bar counter lit from below and a mezzanine level above the stage. There is a pool table, a kitchen serving Thai and international dishes, and a cocktail and wine list alongside the beer. Happy hour runs from opening at 4 PM. Open daily from 4 PM, closing at 1 AM Monday to Wednesday and 2 AM Thursday to Sunday.
Status Ratchayothin, สเตตัส รัชโยธิน in Thai, is the big room of the Ratchayothin cluster: a wide nightclub hall on Phahonyothin Road in Chatuchak, a few minutes from BTS Ratchayothin, sitting above a ground floor with a 7-Eleven. Long shared tables face a stage backed by a full-width LED screen, neon arcs run the length of the ceiling and the bar takes one side. Live bands and singers carry most nights and the venue also books Thai artists for one-off concert nights. Its signature piece is a neon wall asking 'What status are u?' with three answers, not single, single and it depends, which is where the name comes from. Pricing runs on a buffet, which reviewers most often call good value, and the kitchen sends out Thai bar food and fried snacks alongside it. Google lists the venue as LGBTQ+ friendly, and cash, QR and card all work at the table. The hours are the longest in the area by a wide margin: doors at 5 pm and last call at 4 am every day of the week, two hours past when the neighbouring bars shut. It gets genuinely packed at weekends, which is the complaint that comes up most often after inconsistent food. Tables are booked around the clock through the venue's LINE account.
Banpuen Ratchayothin, บ้านเพื่à¸à¸™ รัชโยธิน, means friend's house, and the brand bills itself as a live house rather than a bar. It occupies the first floor of a building directly opposite Major Ratchayothin, a short walk from the BTS station, and it is by some distance the best-regarded room in the local cluster: close to 1,700 Google reviews averaging 4.9, with the music named in hundreds of them. The space runs over two levels, a mezzanine looking down onto the stage with tables and stools on both, and a bar along one wall beneath the chain's house-shaped neon logo. Thai bands and singers play every night from six and the crowd sings along rather than dances, which is the difference between this room and the clubs a few doors away. The kitchen keeps a short menu of rice dishes and stir-fries around 120 to 150 baht, and drinks arrive by the bottle with an ice bucket on the table. It belongs to a small Thai chain with sister rooms in Bangkok and Bangsaen, and the same operator runs Close Friend on the third floor of the same building. Vapes are not allowed inside. Tables are booked through the venue's Instagram or by phone; the website Google lists for it no longer resolves.
Repeat Ari is a live-music bar in The Hub complex on Phahonyothin Road, in the stretch between BTS Ari and Saphan Khwai, occupying a brick-arched corner unit whose windows open straight onto the pavement. The room is built around its stage: a low platform at one end under a copper dome and a mirror ball, with the bar and round tables facing it and a mezzanine looking down over the floor. Reviewers describe the ground floor as the place to be, close enough to see the singers work, and the upper level as the quieter option. The programming is Thai live music, house bands and singers through the week plus a weekend calendar of named Thai acts announced on Instagram, where the bigger bookings are marked fully booked weeks ahead. Google's review keywords put songs, atmosphere and live music far ahead of everything else, and the kitchen runs alongside the music with calamari, fried snacks and rice dishes; the venue reports a typical spend of 400 to 1,400 baht a head. Tables go by phone or through the venue's LINE account, which is the channel it points at for reservations.
Old Dirty is a gastro pub with a stage, on the ground floor of the AQUA complex on Phahonyothin Road between BTS Ari and Saphan Khwai, and at close to 1,900 Google reviews it is the most reviewed room in the area by a wide margin. It runs on two halves of the same space: a covered wooden terrace out front where most of the tables sit and where you can still hold a conversation, and an interior lit in purple and red with a bottle wall behind the bar under an OLD DIRTY LED sign. Bands and singers play through the evening from a small stage backed by a tufted purple headboard, and Google's review keywords put delicious food, atmosphere and music almost level with one another, which is a fair summary of the place: the kitchen turns out fried chicken wings, crispy pork and Thai bar dishes, and the fridges run Hoegaarden, Federbraeu and Brothers cider. Typical spend is 200 to 1,000 baht a head. The venue is marked LGBTQ+ friendly on its own listing and takes bookings by phone.
Tempo calls itself The Social Bar and sits in a shophouse on Ari Soi 4 North, its facade papered edge to edge with its own posters and flyers. Inside is one small room of mismatched tables under an art-covered wall, a bar at the back and a corner that turns into a stage most nights. The programme is the point: the venue publishes a monthly line-up on Instagram running a band from around eight, a second act from ten and a resident DJ from midnight until late, tagged pop, Thai disco and jazz hip-hop, alongside Oldies Nights, free multi-band concerts that run from five in the afternoon to one in the morning, and one-off tie-ins with the Soi Ari festival and the Think Fest swap weekends. The food is deep-fried and unapologetic about it, with beers and cocktails alongside; typical spend is 400 to 600 baht a head. The bar is pet-friendly and marked LGBTQ+ friendly on its own listing, and takes reservations online. Google publishes no weekly opening table for it, only that it closes at two.
Bar Lookkrung is built around luk krung, the orchestral Thai popular song of the mid-twentieth century, and it is one of very few rooms in Bangkok that programmes it live. The bar sits on Ari Samphan behind a brick front with tall arched windows and heavy red curtains, an antique wooden cabinet of bottles behind the counter and a red neon sign of the house rabbit over the door. Bands play from eight in the evening, Wednesday through Sunday, singers working the standards with a small ensemble and sometimes Thai percussion in the line-up. The drinks list is the other half of the idea: cocktails built on Thai regional spirits, sold by the glass and as a three-glass Thai Spirits Flight with a curated pairing. Classic cocktails run buy-two-get-one between half past five and half past seven. Reviewers rate it 4.9 and single out the bartenders and the atmosphere; typical spend is 400 to 600 baht a head, and there is parking.
Roleplay is a bar and karaoke room on the second floor of The Hub on Phahonyothin, easy to walk past because the only sign is upstairs. The room is finished in red locker panels with the ROLEPLAY logo in neon along the wall and the ceiling, a bar down one side and low tables in the middle stacked with board games and card decks; the venue's own tagline is drink, drunk, dance. Live music runs Friday and Saturday, a duo or a small band in the 20:45 to 22:15 slot, with DJ sets and themed nights such as a K-pop hour filling the rest of the week. A separate karaoke room takes up to twenty people and is charged by the hour from 350 baht. The kitchen keeps a short list of Thai bar dishes in the 128 to 238 baht range. It is a small place, 4.9 over a modest number of reviews, and it opens Tuesday to Saturday only. Tables and the karaoke room go through the venue's LINE account.
Peak-A-Boo is the best-regarded room in the Ratchayothin cluster, 4.8 across more than 570 reviews, and it sits inside the Avenue Ratchayothin complex beside Major Cineplex. The room is long and low, lit blue and green, with the PEAK A BOO signature in neon on a curved wall behind the bar, arched booths down one side, high tables in the middle and screens over the floor. Bands play from a stage at the far end and the review keywords put atmosphere, songs and music well ahead of anything else. The pricing is built for a student crowd rather than a Sukhumvit one: a drinks-and-food buffet from Sunday to Tuesday at 399, 499 or 699 baht a head, 3.5-litre buckets at 690, and shots served by the dozen on a light-up checkerboard tray. It runs to two in the morning through the week and half past three on Friday and Saturday. Tables go through the venue's LINE account, and the weekly live band line-up is published on its Linktree.
Turr, written ร้าน เธภin Thai, is a live-music room on Prasert-Manukit Road in Sena Nikhom, north-east of the main Ratchayothin strip. It is a proper hall rather than a bar: a wide stage under the Turr script logo in neon, a video wall behind the band, moving lights across a high ceiling and a floor of long shared tables that fills front to back on a good night. Bands play through the evening and the room gets loud and crowded, with reviewers describing a young crowd in their twenties who come to drink rather than to eat, and noting that the alcohol is not expensive. The kitchen sends out shared platters, mostly seafood on ice and Thai bar food, to the table. Google lists it as open around the clock, which is the listing rather than a schedule, so no weekly hours are recorded here; the domain on the listing, turr.co, does not resolve.
A lounge spread across the third and fourth floors of Gaysorn Amarin in Ratchaprasong, reachable on the skybridge from BTS Chit Lom. The design takes the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as its cue: curved timber tiers, planting spilling over every level and an open-air terrace on top. It runs on a Taste of Time idea, so the room changes character through the day - brunch and coffee in the Sky Lobby, wine and aperitivo at the Salone Bar from late morning, and from 5pm the Ionic Terrace and Pollen Bar, where the cocktails are built on flowers and botanicals and live music and DJs rotate through the evening. Contemporary tapas run alongside. Open every day from 8am to midnight.
An open rooftop off Sukhumvit 20 with the Asok towers filling the view, half of it uncovered terrace with rattan chairs and half an indoor room under a FLASHBACK neon where a singer plays most nights. The cocktail card runs a Flashback Signature list at 340 baht, classics at 300 and a Mojito Madness section, and the kitchen sends out Thai plates and bar food. It opens every day from 4pm to 1am, which makes it a sunset room as much as a late one, and tables are booked by phone or LINE.
A bar built into the Smiths Motors Co garage off Sukhontha Sawat 32 in Lat Phrao, so the room next door is a workshop of classic cars and motorcycles and the bar itself sits under a wall of framed record sleeves with a red neon Smiths script over the counter. The drinks card runs cocktails, wine by the glass and sparkling, and the kitchen sends out bar food under a Campbell's-soup pop-art wall. Live music some nights. Open 5pm to 2am, closed Mondays.
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