Help! I can never find a good place to dance in NYC, which is crazy

It's near NYC, It's free, and you could listen to any type of music you want.

P.S. These are some albums that make me dance

The Bee Gees: The Main Course
Sly & The Family Stone: Dance to the Music
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: Anthology
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls
and the most important...Can You Dig It?: The '70s Soul Experience.

haha

I hear that the Cabaret Laws have killed a lot of the options. I go to plenty of live shows, but they tend not to be too dance-oriented. And the ones that could be, people don't dance. Damn NYC.

or talk to dan.

DJs:
Dan Selzer
PappaWheelie
Jeremy Campbell
Rob Uptight

- Free admission, Red Stripe open bar Fri 1-2am, free pizza with a drink.

"(ALLDISCO) residents...capture the quintessence of Larry Levan's Paradise Garage and Frankie Knuckles' Warehouse parties with fists pumping... the air to the chic sounds of Prelude, Salsoul, marauding Giorgio and the Italian Disco beauties."
-- I-D Magazine

And watch for stuff happening at the Frying Pan, the docked boat at Pier 63 on the West Side.

Is MisShapes a dance night? Anybody?

And I'm sure Harlem and East Brooklyn have their share of spots, but I don't know them.

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Once upon a time, 'twas Thursday but I haven't been there in years.

yes, but it's not for us.

Suzy, in defense of House music, while I'm sure outsiders would say it all sounds the same, it runs the gamut. For instance, when I play House music, you'd swear it was a New Wave party. And for most house people I know, trance and drum and bass are the ENEMY.

you could start following the nyhappenings mailing list for suggestions:

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/nyhappenings/

as well as the Beyond Events calendar

[email protected]

There's a few more but it really depends what kind of music you like. At the very least, the above tend not to focus on cover-charge type places.

But at the risk of sounding obvious, Lit on fridays is pretty eclectic musically, often suprisingly great, is always crowded and people dance. It may be the worst place on the planet, but it's dependable.

If you hop on that L train over to Brooklyn, you have some great options like the aforementioned Capones, among others.

Although I-D magazine gave us a write up claiming Paradise Garage-esque music, that's really only the half (Dan, didn't Vice say 'they play House music'? - the door guy said to me that we play Techno and Freestyle, yet I only own a handful of techno records).

Beat Club is 80's Beats, which may be anything from my beloved Miami Bass to Acid House to Italo to, well, a plethora of 80's hits ala Electrinc Avenue and Rapsberry Beret.

AllDisco is Paradise Garage, Space Disco, and 80's Boogie, among other obscure-ish Disco.

We used to keep the themes seperate, but now we don't care...so if you like anything above and some 80's Hip-Hop too, Capone's on Fridays and Saturdays are worth the L Train ride.

There is ALWAYS a dance party there Fridays and Saturdays, although some nights is does start kinda late. We try to get it going at 10, but the earliest things pick up is like 11, and some nights it'll be 1am before the floor fills up.

I mean, I know /one/ of us was in Vice, but I didn't know the night was mentioned.

And there has been no techno played at Capones, though as you know very well Joe, to most people, it's ALL techno.

It's funny b/c that's what prompted this thread. Every fucking Friday night I end up there, but the music is always kind of obvious and not that much fun to dance to. i like the mood downstairs, but the music is usually so lame that I have a tough time getting into it (ie feel like of embarassed that I'm dancing to it). I love that there is no cover, though.

Thanks to all that have linked me up to places. All I really want is a place that plays lots of 80s/New Wave stuff that I haven't heard played to death. Looks like there are a lot of good suggestions here, though.

Still, the underlying sentiment in my reponse was 'house/techno is in the eye of the beholder sometimes.' Vice saying Capone's plays House music when we're actually playing Patrice Rushen and Shannon seems like a huge stretch to us music people, but if the door guy (the one you're friends with) thinks this too...

When I was playing Patrick Cowley at Rothko, some girl came up and thanked me for playing House music.

I have a feeling Suzy knows the difference, but I do want to put a disclaimer out there that some reading this might think we're a House/Techno night. I mean, sure, I play some Juan Atkins and some Hot Mix 5, but I don't dwell on either. I'm more apt to play three 2 Live Crew songs or three Moroder songs than I am to play anything else in bulk.

HIYO! JDH, Mike Simonetti, and Michael Goodstein to thread.

we're a pretty fucking eclectic night, in our eyes.

chance are you'll hear good dance music from the mid 70s to the late 80s more or less, chance are you'll recognize 1/3 of the songs, sometimes less, sometimes more. Check http://www.alldisco.net for a basic idea of the djs and the "theme" of the night.

HIYO! JDH, Mike Simonetti, and Michael Goodstein to thread.

no, no, no keep them AWAY! Thing is suzy, Lit downstairs is different depending on who's djing. Thing is the nights I've done it, I start out more new wave and fun and by the end when everyone's wasted and will dance to anything, that's when I start playing the stuff you probably hate...and that's when you show up!

Like I said, I'll do my research w/ the links/MessageBoards/MailingLists, do it up on Friday, and report back. There have been quite a few genres mentioned here that I'm unfamiliar with, so maybe those would be good places to start.

As long as there are no fucking Def Leopard/Motley Crue/G'n'R iron-a-thons, or as long as "Boys and Girls" isn't the highlight of the night, i'll probaby be happy.

Dan -- one of my friends told me some crazy story about getting laid on a trip to new york and there was something about a bar with pizza and I said.... AHA!!!

Not to say we haven't gotten pretty decadent at times, didn't someone have sex one saturday in the club in plain view of everyone? For those that don't know, it's just a large bar, not some dark club.

And hey, even the residents get some action! Right, Rob?

A lovely lady unzipped my pants a few weeks back. No more, no less, just unzipped my pants.

Be with me in my time of need.

somebody has to do it.

but ummm, seriously Ian, where is this self-congratulatory, other then the obvious joke "sometimes people get laid at Alldisco"? I just re-read the thread and there's nothing more then an honest appraisal of the kind of music that is played. But thanks for contributing, really.

Cheeky B*stard - Wednesdays at Hiro
July 27 - Geo, Loveleigh & Greg K (MisSHAPES)

Those crazy MisSHAPES kids are coming back to Hiro with their funny
haircuts and lots of great tunes that they'll be playing for us this
Wednesday. We've got to hand it to them - they know how to rock a
party (which is probably a good thing, seeing as we're bringing them
to rock ours). Cheeky resident DJ Nick Marc will be spinning - so
expect a night of dance-rock, new wave and all that good stuff.

Hosted by Tom & Alejandro and Dagny

To be placed on the Cheeky guestlist for complimentary admission,
email: [email protected] with your name and number of guests you are
bringing.

Door by Thomas (Motherf**ker / MisSHAPES)

Doors open 10pm

Hiro:16 St. and 9 Ave. in the Maritime Hotel

Upcoming DJ / Event lineup:
Aug 3 The Shut the F**k Up (Michael and Arthur of Stellastarr*)
Aug 17 David J Haskins (Bauhaus / Love and Rockets / Tones on Tails)
DJ set and Madison Strays (Live)
Sept 14, 16 and 17 CMJ Week
Oct 19 Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth of Tom Tom Club (DJ set)

www.GBH.tv

the old gf has been doing Happy Endings on wednesdays but I haven't made it yet so I can't say how that is. That place is usually pretty crowded and has a few regular hip parties, Spencer Product's We Bite on tuesdays and Mattie and Gabe from the Rapture have been doing stuff on Fridays with the guys who do the No Ordinary Monkey parties, neither of which I've been to. I actually don't go to dance parties anymore, because I go to sleep.

Looking for some place in NYC where I can get loose to the first single off my new album. I can never find a good place to dance to it, which is crazy.

And I like to watch the booty move, nahmean?

That's your boy...

Kanye

CheCk tHis oUt HolMes:

"Pure Fire"
Friday August 5th
9pm-4am
@ Rocky's
351 Kent Ave. (South 5th)
Williamsburg

$4

L to Bedford/J to Marcy

A night of Grime, Ghettotech, Ragga, Miami Bass, Baile
Funk, Jungle, Crunk, Reggaeton and more...

with DJ's

Papa Wheelie (miami bass history)
Peter Gunn
Reaganomics
Criterion (broklyn beat records)
Catchdubs (east village radio)
Shakey

at Rocky's (formerly the Ship's Mast, formerly Local,
formerly the Rock Star Bar) under the Williamsburg
Bridge.