This distinctively red and enduringly hip party boat lays on DJs, rappers and assorted underground noise-merchants for the benefit of an up-for-it crowd. It comes into its own...

The energetic programming at the Cité de la Musique features a vast non-classical repertoire that includes ethnic music and jazz. Concerts are frequently split up into series...

This historic site was reopened in 2005 as a beautifully relaxed, spacious venue with a folky bent.

Easily one of Paris's finest venues, the lovely, horseshoe-shaped theatre La Cigale is linked to more cosy venue La Boule Noire, good for catching cult-ish visiting acts.

This much-loved indie and electro venue is a great place for free music, with three or four bands playing every night the venue is open. It also provides monthly residencies to...

Cementing Bastille's status as Paris's prime hangout for rockers, this exciting recent arrival has three levels and alternates eclectic DJs with live acts in the cellar, plus...

This small, sweaty boîte has become a focus for 'cool' Paris. It's great, albeit pricey, once you're in, but you'll have to pass the door test first.

A little too flash for some, but there's no doubting this brand new vaulted club by the Seine, and its Sous le Pont events - live performance followed by DJs - have been the...

Wacky crowd, Madonna songs and accordion tunes. At the Friday and Saturday Bal de la Boîte à Frissons, couples dance the foxtrot, tango, madison or guinguette in the early part...

If you desire an authentic Belleville rendezvous, there's no better location than this old-style café with terrace, where the traditions of accordion music and croaky-voiced...

The museum runs a full and enterprising series of lunchtime and evening concerts. The concerts at 12.30pm concentrate on promising young artists. For 2009 there is a...

The museum presents a worthy programme of medieval concerts in which troubadours reflect the museum's collection.

Nouvelle Athènes has a weight of history behind it. It was the café in Degas' L'Absinthe, a striptease joint frequented by the Nazis and Liberation troops, then rock venue New...

The Palais Garnier, with its ornate, extravagant decor and ceiling by Marc Chagall, is the jewel in the crown of Paris music-making, as well as a glistening focal point for the...