19 Bangkok venues listed as playing pop.
A late-night multi-floor nightclub spanning three floors with live band performances on the ground level, a casual socializing space on the second floor, and a nightclub featuring hip-hop, EDM, and pop music on the upper floors.
Upscale nightlife venue in the heart of Thonglor's Soi 10. On any given night, the venue hosts a mix of live bands and DJs playing EDM, hip-hop, pop, and more.
Hippodrome brings a touch of old-world charm to Bangkok's modern nightlife. The bar's interior features polished wood, marble accents, and striking Roman-inspired artwork, creating an inviting atmosphere. Guests can sip on a cocktail while enjoying a mix of pop and Thai music.
A laid-back bar and restaurant capturing the cozy vibe of a house party. The venue doubles as a creative space showcasing local artist pieces, functioning as a casual art gallery. Atmosphere comes alive at night with live bands and DJs performing soulful R&B, pop, indie and alternative music.
A rare and welcoming space in Bangkok designed primarily for lesbian and queer women, though open to all who appreciate its inclusive vibe. The bar's design feels intimate and calming, with greenery, soft lighting, and a ceiling that mimics a star-filled sky, giving it the feel of a cozy rooftop escape indoors. Nights are set to an easygoing soundtrack of female DJs spinning pop, R&B, and indie tracks, with occasional live acoustic sets that add a warm, personal touch.
A nightlife destination in the heart of Thonglor featuring live performances, a laid-back atmosphere, and an energetic dance-floor setting, making it a versatile spot for a night out in Bangkok.
A contemporary rooftop bar on the 32nd floor of Moxy Bangkok Ratchaprasong celebrating Thai Isaan and Japanese cuisines. Features 360-degree panoramic city views, dedicated DJ sets, and signature cocktails alongside Isaan x Japanese-inspired dishes.
An Isaan-themed restaurant and bar featuring northeastern Thai cuisine, live music, and DJs. Celebrates bold, fiery flavors of Isaan comfort food with a vibrant, energetic nightlife setting on Phahonyothin Road.
DJ Station is Bangkok's most famous and enduring LGBTQ dance club, tucked at the end of Silom Soi 2 in the Bang Rak district. Since the 1990s it has been the anchor of the Silom gay scene, drawing a packed, high-energy crowd of locals, expats and travellers. The venue is spread across three floors, with an energetic main dance floor at ground level and quieter upper levels for drinking and socialising. International dance music dominates the sound, with pumping house, EDM and pop keeping the floor moving until late. A signature drag and cabaret show takes over around midnight, and the club really fills up in the small hours. Entry typically runs around 150 baht on weeknights and 300 baht at weekends, usually including a drink or two. Photo ID is required (over-20s), and while dress is casual and body-conscious, closed shoes are required (no flip-flops). Expect a lively, shirtless, see-and-be-seen atmosphere that makes it a must-visit on any Bangkok gay nightlife itinerary.
G Bangkok, formerly known as G.O.D. (Guys On Display), is a high-energy LGBTQ late-night nightclub on Silom Soi 2/1, sitting between Silom Soi 2 and Silom Soi 4 near Sala Daeng BTS. It is one of Bangkok's most popular gay clubs and the go-to spot when the neighbouring bars start winding down, staying open far later than most Silom venues. The multi-level club has three floors: a heaving main dance floor where DJs spin circuit, house and dance tracks, plus an upstairs area known as a cruising zone. True to its original name, the club features go-go dancers and shirtless hunks on display, along with grand cabaret and go-go shows around midnight. The vibe gets sweaty, shirtless and euphoric as the night rolls into the early morning. Drinks start from around 150 baht, and while there's no strict dress code, open-toed shoes are not allowed. It's a favourite on the circuit-party calendar and a reliable late-night alternative to DJ Station.
Blueprint Livehouse is a dedicated live music venue on the second floor of Flow House in Bangkok's Khlong Toei district, built to support artists who create and perform original music. Positioned above the Flow House surf attraction in the A Square complex, it has quickly become a go-to destination for the city's live music enthusiasts. The intimate, performance-first space stages a mix of local and international acts, hosting standing-room gigs that put the band front and center. Its programming spans rock, indie, alternative, electronic and pop, with an emphasis on original songwriting rather than covers. The venue frames itself as a vibrant hub where musicians and audiences connect through the shared experience of live performance. Because it runs as a true livehouse rather than a nightly bar, doors typically open only when a gig is scheduled, and entry fees generally start from around 350 THB. Tickets are commonly sold in advance through Ticketmelon. The crowd skews toward passionate music fans and supporters of the local original-music scene. It is reachable via the MRT Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre station, a short taxi ride away.
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.
Jalwa Club Bangkok opened on 17 June 2026 underneath the Hyatt Regency at the mouth of Sukhumvit Soi 13, and is the Bangkok branch of the Jalwa club on Pattaya's Walking Street. It calls itself The Billionaire's Bastion and it is an Indian club: the DJs run Bollywood and Punjabi sets, and reviewers name that programming as the reason they came. The room is a full production club rather than a bar, with LED walls and lit ceiling panels, moving-head beams and lasers over a dance floor that runs up to a raised stage, and the resident DJs alternate through the night with live singers and dancers. It opens at 9pm and runs to 4am every day, and tables are taken by phone. Note that the clubjalwa.com address carried on the Google listing belongs to the Pattaya club and describes that venue, not this one; the Bangkok branch publishes through its own Instagram account.
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.
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.
Thachang is the loud, cheap end of the Avenue Ratchayothin block, a pub with the round ท่าช้าง logo burning on an LED wall behind the DJ and green lasers over a floor of long shared tables. Drinks arrive by the pitcher with a bowl of snacks, the bar runs a wall of bottles with several staff pouring at once, and reviewers are consistent about the trade-off: the music is good and the drinks are cheap, but on a busy night the queue outside can run for hours and people do get turned away. Its own Facebook page, which carries 26,000 followers, gives the hours as six in the evening to two in the morning every day; Google's listing still says midnight. Typical spend is 200 to 1,000 baht a head.
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