Live Music in Madrid

Café Central (Ateneo), Centro

TODAY 8:00 PM • See Website

“Fourteen years of Madrid swing, on a Monday, in the city's jazz living room. Dance badly.”

Monopol (Nômade Temple, Gran Vía 11), Centro

WED 7:30 PM • €20

“David August plays what he's been making while living in a Gran Vía hotel. Sit, listen, no phones.”

Café Central (Ateneo), Centro

FRI 10:00 PM • See Website

“Nigerian guitarist who opened for Manu Dibango, playing Lagos-cut Afro-jazz. Sit still. Try.”

Café Central (Ateneo), Centro

MON 8:00 PM • See Website

“Voice, clarinet, cello and piano doing boleros and Brazilian tunes. Holiday Monday, sorted.”

Teatro Lope de Vega, Centro

MON 8:30 PM • €52+

“Heartbreaker himself, seated, in a velvet Gran Vía theatre on a bank holiday. Bring tissues.”

Sala El Sol, Centro

OCT 14 9:00 PM • €16

“Two Wilco guys making sunny 70s soft-pop in a tiny movida-era room. Dad-rock, elevated.”

Café Central (Ateneo), Centro

OCT 15 8:00 PM • See Website

“A Danish pianist and a Minas Gerais singer making Brazilian jazz. Bossa nova with a Nordic accent.”

Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Malasaña

OCT 16 8:00 PM • €18

“Norwegian ambient-jazz drift plus Texan glitch-pop in an 18th-century barracks. Headphones optional.”

Sala Juglar, Lavapiés

OCT 16 9:00 PM • €9.10

“Two Spanish punk bands, nine euros, Calle Lavapiés. Your ears are a fair trade.”

Café Ziryab, Arganzuela

OCT 19 8:30 PM • €17.60

“Flamenco a few meters from your face: guitar, cante, heel-thunder, one drink. An hour of goosebumps.”