Live music venues in Bangkok with bands, solo artists, and open mic nights. Rock, blues, indie, jazz, and everything in between.
An atmospheric speakeasy inspired by 1930s gangster glamour featuring velvet drapes, dark wood, and crystal chandeliers. The cocktail list pays homage to iconic outlaws while live jazz music fills the air with a cigar lounge adding sophistication.
A laid-back bar and restaurant capturing the cozy vibe of a house party. The venue doubles as a creative space with 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.
Terra Thonglor 10 is a premier nightlife spot in Bangkok's Thonglor neighborhood. The venue blends a nightlife atmosphere with live music, with popular local and regional acts. In recent years, Terra has risen as one of the most popular bars in Thonglor, especially among locals, and has become a destination for those seeking an authentic Thai nightlife experience.
Unique venue for live music lovers combining speakeasy intimacy with small concert venue energy. Features eclectic performances from jazz and funk to indie rock and experimental sounds. Moody lighting, rustic-industrial decor, strong cocktail menu, and craft beers celebrate creativity and artistry.
Tiger Ekkamai is a nightlife favorite in Bangkok's Ekkamai neighborhood. The bar features Chinese-inspired design elements and hosts a mix of live bands and DJs spinning everything from Thai pop to hip-hop. Popular with a mostly local crowd, Tiger Ekkamai is a go-to destination for groups of friends looking to enjoy drinks, beer towers, and slice of Bangkok's nightlife scene.
A nightlife destination in 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.
Live music bar on Sukhumvit Soi 24, in the room that traded as Highroll until 2026. Bands play nightly and the place runs until 3am.
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 live music venue in Thonglor hosting original bands, touring acts, and weekly jam nights since 2016. Supports indie, punk, rock, and experimental artists with professional sound in an inclusive bar atmosphere.
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.
Jam is a beloved underground creative space tucked down a small lane off Sathorn's Charoen Rat Road, describing itself as a local bar, underground music venue, emerging arts gallery and cine club all rolled into one. Repeatedly voted among Bangkok's best music venues, it helped transform a rundown corner of the city into a hub for the alternative art and music scene. The stage and floor welcome an eclectic program spanning experimental, folk, indie, house, drum and bass, downtempo and lo-fi hip-hop, alongside DJ sets and live bands. Beyond music, Jam regularly hosts street-art exhibitions, indie and arthouse film nights, open-mic sessions, karaoke and other offbeat events. The kitchen turns out home-cooked comfort food such as burgers, breakfast sets and fish and chips, while the bar pours beers, cocktails, spirits and soft drinks. The vibe is raw, bohemian and intimate, drawing a creative, culturally engaged crowd of artists, expats and music lovers. It sits a short walk from Surasak BTS (Exit 2) and opens evenings from Tuesday to Sunday.
Bangkok Mojo is a cozy, soulful live music bar and self-styled music lovers' club set along Charoen Krung Road in the artsy Bang Rak district, just steps from Silom. It champions timeless tunes played live, with a strong focus on quality sound and a warm sense of community among regulars. From Wednesday to Sunday, rotating bands and musicians bring the stage to life with soul, jazz, funk, blues, disco, roots and classic rock, largely drawn from the 1960s through the 1990s. Nights follow themed programming such as Swingin' Wednesday (rockabilly), Retro Thursday, Finally Friday, Bluesy Saturday and Easy Sunday, with acoustic sets giving way to full live bands as the evening builds. There is no cover charge, just a modest minimum spend of around 300 THB per person, and the bar serves solid cocktails and drinks with friendly service. The intimate, welcoming room and skilled resident musicians consistently earn praise for their energetic, heartfelt performances. It draws a mature, music-focused crowd of locals, expats and 40+ travelers who come for genuine musicianship over party crowds. Free parking is available nearby at Soi 39, and the venue is closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
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 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.
Adhere the 13th Blues Bar is a tiny, much-loved live blues institution on Samsen Road in the Banglamphu old town, just a short walk from Khao San Road and the canal. Widely considered Bangkok's best blues bar, it packs first-class local musicians into a cramped, atmospheric room whose walls are plastered with album covers, road signs and musical memorabilia of every kind. There is authentic live music nightly, usually with two acts starting around 9 to 9:30 pm and running until roughly midnight or 1 am, with short breaks between sets; the house band and regular players such as Ped Bluesman and Chai and the Blues Maniacs are crowd favourites. Mid-week jam sessions are common as musicians drift in from other gigs, and weekends often bring guest vocalists and one-man guitar acts. Guests can sit indoors in air-conditioned comfort or spill out onto the pavement for a street-side drink. The drinks list keeps it simple and affordable with cold local beers and well-made cocktails like its popular margaritas. Admission is free, but the room is small, so regulars advise arriving early to grab a seat. The vibe is down-to-earth, intimate and friendly, drawing a warm mix of locals, expats, backpackers and blues lovers.
The Rock Pub is Bangkok's legendary house of rock, a dive-bar-style live music venue and concert space that has been a cornerstone of the city's rock and metal scene since it opened on 1 March 1987. Now run by the second generation of its founding family and located on Phahonyothin Road in the Phaya Thai area near Sanam Pao BTS, it survived the 1997 financial crisis on the loyalty of its community and still throws big anniversary celebrations every March. The decor pays homage to legendary rock and metal bands, setting the mood for live music virtually every night, with house and cover bands typically taking the stage from around 10 pm. Programming spans classic rock, heavy metal, punk, alternative and nu-metal, and over the decades the stage and associated shows have hosted major international acts including Napalm Death, Exodus, DragonForce, Doro and many touring metal and metalcore bands. Beyond nightly bands it runs ticketed gigs, tribute nights and themed events for Bangkok's rock faithful. Drinks are pub-style and unpretentious, with beers, spirits and cocktails, plus food available. The crowd is a devoted mix of rockers, metalheads, headbangers, expats and long-time regulars. It remains one of the longest-running and most iconic live-rock venues in Thailand.
Echo opened in July 2026 inside the Town Hall complex on Sukhumvit 49, a short walk from BTS Phrom Phong, and quickly became one of the area's most talked-about new clubs. The room is built like a cave: sculpted, sand-toned concrete walls and a vaulted ceiling that curves down over a long backlit bar, with an arched frosted-glass back wall stacked with premium bottles and a large LED screen washing the stepped main floor in light. Resident DJs run a hip-hop-led open-format set, with live singers taking over between them. Bottle-service tables ring the floor and reservations go through the club's LINE account. Open nightly from 8 PM until 3 AM.
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.
Restaurant, bar and members' club on the 30th floor of JLK Tower and the mezzanine above it (30M), on the corner of Sukhumvit Soi 7 with a skywalk to BTS Nana. It opened in February 2026 after pre-opening events from October 2025. Rong Supper Club, the main dining room, serves Chinese and Italian dishes and dim sum with live jazz and other live acts through the week, and Bar Won on the mezzanine is the cocktail bar from the team behind Alice Cheongdam in Seoul; it stays open until 01:00. Both take non-member reservations through SevenRooms with a deposit of 500 to 1,500 THB per person depending on the area, credited to the bill where you booked, and there is a weekend lunch on Saturday and Sunday, 12:00-15:00. The Founder's Lounge, with a wine cellar and cigar lounge, is for members (membership is by application), and The Yang's Club 94, the DJ room on the mezzanine, has its own listing and is closed for renovation.
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.
Tip N Drip, branded TND, is a Thai-style drinking spot that opened in spring 2026 inside the Sena Center complex on Phahonyothin Road, a short walk from BTS Ratchayothin exit 3. It runs on a drink-buffet model rather than a normal bar tab: guests pay a flat per-person rate that changes by weekday and by arrival time, cheapest for arriving before 21:00, and that covers unlimited house beer and Thai whisky for the night. Ice, mixers and food are charged separately, and the rates are re-posted each month on the venue's own channels. The room is a long, low-ceilinged hall with rows of shared tables facing a stage, a bar down one side, and a neon photo corner with dartboards and a 'Call me BABY' sign that the venue uses for its social media. Programming is live music: house singers and bands most nights, plus occasional guest bookings from the Thai rap scene, including 1MILL in July 2026. The crowd is young, local and group-based, drawn from the surrounding Ratchayothin and Kasetsart student area, and it stands at the tables rather than sitting. Two things are worth knowing first. Buffet drinks may not be poured into the table ice bucket, and the venue enforces that rule with on-the-spot penalty charges; a large share of its Google reviews are disputes over exactly this, and over extra charges added late in the evening, which is why its rating sits well below the Bangkok average. Doors are 7 pm to 2 am daily and tables are booked through the venue's LINE account.
RYSH, written ริช รัชโยธิน in Thai, is a bar and live-music room on the first floor of a building directly beside BTS Ratchayothin exit 4, on the Chatuchak stretch of Phahonyothin Road. Its centrepiece is a stage set inside concentric gold-lit arches under the RYSH monogram, where house bands and singers play through the evening and resident DJs take over later. The DJ side is unusually well documented for a Bangkok bar: the venue posts hour-long recordings of its own sets on YouTube, where residents including MIKEPCK, GOBLIN and BESTBOI run open-format party sets and themed nights such as K-pop, and guest bookings from the Thai scene fill the calendar in between. The room is spacious by local standards, with round tables facing the stage, a long bar backed by a lit spirits wall against rough stone, and a kitchen doing Thai bar food, mostly hot soups, spicy salads and fried snacks in the 100 to 240 baht range. Reviewers single out the music and the atmosphere far more often than the drinks, and the floor fills with a young local crowd rather than a tourist one. Tables can be reserved up to seven days ahead through the venue's LINE account, which is the only booking channel: no phone number and no website are published anywhere.
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.
Ratch Hour sits in the Ratchayothin underpass on the Chatuchak side of Phahonyothin Road and is the busiest of the local rooms clustered around the BTS station. Reviewers call it one of the hottest clubs in the area and remark on how rarely a tourist turns up: the crowd is almost entirely local and mostly under 25, and the floor fills on weeknights as readily as on Fridays. The room is a wide curved space wrapped in neon-edged banquettes, with the bar at the back, a DJ booth, and a stage that also takes live bands, under lighting that swings the whole floor between purple, green and red across the night. The music is open format across Thai and international pop, played loud and aimed at dancing rather than conversation, and the sound system gets its own mentions. Drinks are ordered from tablets at the table and the kitchen sends out Thai bar snacks alongside. Several practical points come up again and again in reviews: tables genuinely need reserving, there is a dress code at the door, ice is billed separately, and some guests report being pushed toward a bottle rather than ordering by the glass. Booking runs through the venue's own site or its LINE account, and it is one of the few rooms in this cluster with a working website at all.
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 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.
Thonglor's newest music bar, open since 4 September 2026 on the fourth floor of Market Place Thonglor. The venue runs a live band and a DJ every night it opens and describes its own music as deliberately varied rather than tied to one genre. The room is built around a stage, with seated tables and standing room around it, and you can start at the bar without booking a table. Drinks only, there is no kitchen. Eight signature cocktails run 380 to 440 baht and several of them come as a mocktail for 300. Tables run on a minimum spend, from 5,000 baht Sunday and Tuesday to Thursday and from 8,000 on Friday and Saturday, with VAT and service already included and a deposit that comes off the first bill; the standing zone at the bar has no minimum on those weeknights. The opening weekend ran The Parkinson by invitation on the 4th and WIM on the 5th, and the first AMBR. Day Session brought Jesse Barrera in for an afternoon show on 14 September. Reservations run through the LINE account.
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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