An atlas of the world's great rooms to hear music in, chosen for how they sound and where they stand. A cave in Andalucía, a red-rocks amphitheatre in Colorado, a jazz basement in Greenwich Village. Where to go, when to go, and what you will hear.
Dated, sourced and short. The moments worth planning a trip around, and the rooms in the atlas that are at their best right now.
EXIT is bringing its Starlight Festival to the Giza plateau, five stages at the foot of the pyramids, with Charlotte de Witte, Michael Bibi and Adriatique confirmed. If you go, stay a night longer: two of Cairo's rooms are already in the atlas.
Source: IQ Magazine, June 2026. Check the organiser for final times before you book.
Sunday Jump nights are the headline, when Femi Kuti and the Positive Force play 4-hour sets.
October to May, the main classical and opera season. Concerts most evenings, Cairo Symphony Orchestra Saturday nights, Opera Company productions in…
October to April, the dry season. Traditional Vietnamese music and ballet programming runs year-round on Tuesday and Friday evenings…
October to February, the post-monsoon dry season. Tata Theatre Hindustani classical season runs through this window.
Rooms built to be listened to, from 1888 Amsterdam to Frank Gehry in Los Angeles.
Where the place is half the line-up: deserts, rivers, fortresses and fields.
Listening bars, basements and warehouses where the room does the talking.
Caves, dunes, canyons and amphitheatres cut into rock.
Temples, palaces and pyramids where music was ritual long before it was a night out.
Twelve from the atlas. Every one has a page with when to go, how to get there and what it sounds like inside.
Routes that join the rooms into a journey you can actually take.
The continent's afterparty. 5 curated venues stitched into a single editorial route by Sonic Paths.
Phones forbidden. Vinyl-only. 3 curated venues stitched into a single editorial route by Sonic Paths.
From the playa to the post-industrial. 4 curated venues stitched into a single editorial route by Sonic Paths.
The room is the instrument.
Sonic Paths is for people who travel to hear things. Every room here is chosen for what the place does to the sound, and written up so you know when to go and what you will hear when you get there.
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