Dancing After Dark: New York’s Best Kept Secrets
With EDM flooding nearly every dance floor in New York, it can be hard to track down the most interesting and most insane parties. So here's a guided tour of the city's underground bashes and late-night hangouts that are worth a post-midnight spin around the five boroughs. By Nicky Digital
Pictured here: Kygo spins his brand of tropical remixes while the crowd gets wavey at the Friday night weekly Girls & Boys party.
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Fancy some trap? ? Come by the Studio at Webster Hall on Thursday nights for DJ Sliink & Dirty South Joe's Bandit's Basement party. You're likely to dance along with DJ elite like Diplo and Va$htie!
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What So Not plays to a sold-out Webster Hall at the Friday night weekly Girls & Boys party.
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Every Girls & Boys party opens and closes with residents Alex English & DJ rekLES spinning a mix of classics and the freshest tracks from their e-mail inboxes.
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Lindsay the hula-hooper spins an optical illusion.
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The Internet famous Jewish Joker is a regular at Girls & Boys.
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Don't fear Brooklyn because that's where things are really going to start getting interesting. This is the view from the dance floor of Williamsburg's newest music mecca, Verboten.
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Curses, DKDS and Total Fitness of Brooklyn's very own Safer At Night crew in the mix at Verboten.
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Lower Manhattan's Chinatown hosts the always-mysterious Dark Disco.
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The monthly party Dark Disco usually takes place in a dingy dim sum spot and features artists from UZ (pictured here) to Alice Glass.
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The Gaslamp Killer finishes up his white-label heavy two-plus-hour set at Dark Disco.
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Bushwick is where the BangOn!NYC collective throws their pop-up parties. This picture was taken at the stroke of midnight at their New Year's Eve bash.
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And BangOn!NYC isn't afraid of sunlight either. Their annual Elements Festival was held deep in Red Hook at this site.
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The music continues into the night at the BangOn!NYC Elements Festival, where the crowd is encouraged to let loose by costumed dancers.
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And artists like Harvard Bass spin well into the night.
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You can find out more about BangOn!NYC's pop-up parties but shhhhh we didn't tell you!
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Brooklyn is also the home to Rinsed, who also throw pop-up parties at less traditional venues and warehouses. You're likely to catch an act like Jacques Greene right before they blow up.
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As the music gets more eclectic, so does Rinsed's performance art and installations.
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Rinsed often blurs the lines between performance and the crowd.
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If you don't want to plunge into the wilds of warehouseville, you can still find top-notch bookings at Cielo in the meatpacking district. Their daily lineups feature living legends and future legends like Walker & Royce and Danny Daze (pictured here) alike.