1. Sixteen Tons. Even though it’s overcrowded and too loungey, No. 1 goes out to this club for organizing some of Moscow’s top concerts last year totally on its own initiative, including bringing in Stereolab, the Residents and Plaid.

2. B2. This relatively new addition to Moscow’s club scene boasts four floors and one of the city’s largest and coolest concert halls. The club has already recommended itself as a pleasant place to go for a range of musical styles and has so far held star-concerts by Julie Cruise and Mouse on Mars.

3. Dom. The music selection here is filtered so that every day is all-out intellectual and avant-garde, starting with Jewish alternative music to throat-singing shamans and nothing more subtle in between.

4. Kitaisky Lyotchik Dzhao Da. For some reason one of Moscow’s smallest concert halls holds some of the best and most unusual concerts. So if you don’t mind not seeing the music group itself and like to be tightly pressed from all sides, come here.

5. Art Garbage. As for live concerts, this pleasant venue has a generally uninteresting program, except for the occasional find, but here it’s twice as risky going to see a band you’ve never heard of.

6. Expat. As the name suggests, this Moscow newcomer has a specific target audience, which is supposed to be interested in jazz, blues and Russian rock – the club’s specialties.

7. Le Club. Moscow’s top jazz club, where foreign jazz stars are in the weekly program practically as frequently as local ones.

8. Project O.G.I. Rooms dense with smoke and a definite smell of alcohol make the usual live bands concerts here slightly different. The ideal place to watch the Leningrad band.

9. Tochka. This large, deserted factory-turned-club saw its star moment last summer, hosting concerts by both Red Snapper and Tindersticks. Nothing worth mentioning has happened there since, but we’re still waiting for a follow-up.

10. Schwein. Pigs in all forms are scattered about the place that used to be called Kak Bi. And somehow the people here are all in a "schweiny" mood.