Live Music

Purpose-built jazz concert hall. The Miner Auditorium has been praised as one of the best listening rooms anywhere.

Legendary Fillmore music hall with chandeliers and free posters after the show.

Beloved intimate concert venue, consistently ranked among SF's best.

Independent Potrero venue known for catching bands just before they break out.

Live jazz nightly with an Asian-leaning kitchen. Cozy Hayes Valley setting.

Multi-floor venue with a main stage, lower level with bowling and arcade, and a rooftop. Hybrid concert/nightlife space.

The most beautiful music room in the city — ornate balconies, gold leaf, sit-down dinner option. Built 1907, still hosts touring…

Mid-size Uptown concert room programming heavy on hip-hop, soul, and Bay Area legends.

Decades-deep rock'n'roll dive with a tiny stage that's hosted everyone. Cheap beer, sticky floor, no pretense.

Deco-style jazz bar with craft cocktails. Drinks-only spot with nightly live sets.

Former mortuary turned indie venue with a 40-foot vaulted ceiling — best mid-size room in the Mission. Restaurant out front,…

Old-Vegas style supper-club venue on Columbus, gold curtain stage, history that includes Rita Hayworth and the Grateful Dead.…

Large warehouse venue with multiple rooms. House and techno focus, with art installations throughout.

South Berkeley Irish pub with traditional sessions, indie shows, and a stubborn Bay Area authenticity.

Pink-lit Uptown rock club with a deeper history than its size suggests.

Tucked into a Sunnyvale industrial-park strip mall and named best live music in Silicon Valley by people who actually listen to…

John Lee Hooker's old blues room across from the Fillmore. Dance floor, funk and jam bookings, and a lineage you can feel in the…

Intimate jazz supper club with full dinner service and live music.

Hayes Valley's small-but-mighty room — indie shows, dance nights, all-ages bookings, and event-specific late bar nights. Check…

Speakeasy-era basement room beneath The Swedish American Hall — long bar, leather booths, intimate stage, and calendar-driven…

Eighteen private rooms loaded with English, Chinese, Korean, and Hindi catalogs — a proper Asian KTV experience built into the…

Private-room noraebang done right — Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese tracks, a soju-and-tempura kitchen, and rooms that…

Upstairs music room that's been booking live bands in Los Gatos for 25+ years. Wednesday country line-dancing nights, weekend…

The reborn Mike's Place in Cambrian/Almaden, now booking local bands and neighborhood bar nights. Treat late-night timing…