Musiksmag

Good music, inexpensive pilseners and a chill vibe welcomed me when I stumbled across to this bar near the AirBnB I was staying in. Lots of beautiful Danes and the beats were spun on vinyl until later in the evening when the iPod/​Phones came out. It was a Wednesday or Thursday night so it was a nice vibe although I suspect this small spot gets pretty crowded on the weekends. Would definitely hit it up again!

Found myself wandering into an empty MusikSmag after a referral from a friend who hardly remembered the place but noted that it was nearby my house. I didn’t have huge expectations, and when I was the 6^th official person to walk into the bar that actually looked like your great aunt Mildred’s living room (complete with wall murals from the artistic phase in her life) at 9pm on a Saturday night, I started to immediately plan an exit strategy.
Fervently digging through the likes of Unilocal and Foursquare, I searched for some other options. I had a few criteria: cheap, hyggelig, somewhere in Nørrebro.
Problem was, the data connection was bad, I didn’t want to go outside to get an unobstructed view of my sometimes-​slightly-​more-​than-​disappointing TDC cell phone towers because it was cold (and I was lazy), and there was a guy at the bar drinking a mysterious beverage that looked like red wine with bubbles and I was dying to find out what it was.
And then my friend showed up and we were thirsty and figured it couldn’t really hurt to give MusikSmag a good old fashioned college try.
Turns out the bubbly bottle of red wine is 100kr and called Lambrusco (we consumed 2 bottles of it), the music is awesome, the crowd shows up en masse at 9:30 (so thank your lucky stars you have a seat at 9pm), and you hardly notice the horrifying carpet after a couple hours.
MusikSmag did us a solid in giving us ample people watching, great background music that didn’t compete with our friendly banter with our table buddies, cheap adult beverages, and a location on one of my most favorite streets in all of Copenhagen. I haven’t decided yet if I’m hipster enough (because I’m actually not hipster at all) to make this place a local hang out, but it’s certainly in the running.