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Chilly November nights are here. It’s time to find a dance floor buzzing with people and energy and warmth. This month’s club calendar runs from leftfield bass to ambient and psychedelic club, with marathon sets and anniversary parties built for losing track of time. You’ll find some of these tickets on Resident Advisor, but some of the best ones you won’t. On the live side, jungle, shoegaze, punk, and indie rock are filling rooms from Greenpoint to the East Village. Here are Now Frolic's picks for where to dance and where to jam in New York in early November.
Mess Is Lore: Cry, Motion Graphics + More
Thursday, November 12 · Dance · Nowadays, Ridgewood
Sound: Leftfield club, bass, ambient, live electronics
Mess Is Lore understands that a good night doesn't have to commit to a single mood. Carpet (F.L.H.P.) and Marble Rye go back-to-back, Crimeboys bring their beautifully peculiar approach to DJing, and live sets from Cry and Motion Graphics pull things further into the experimental. Good for anyone who wants some strangeness between the bass lines and doesn't mind being surprised.
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Mind Cargo: 1st Anniversary Party
Friday, November 13 · Dance · ErF Studios, East Williamsburg
Sound: Psychedelic club, experimental electronic, ambient, leftfield
Mind Cargo celebrates its first birthday across two rooms, with few concessions to the usual format. Gi Gi, DJ Female, Baroque Hoe, Alien D, Fleet Dreams, and Plushie handle the rhythmic room, while Carpet (F.L.H.P.), back for a second night, and Mr. Murray take the other into ambient territory. Ten hours of music built for getting lost in.
Nia Archives with BAMBII: Emotional World Tour
Friday, November 13 · Live Show · Webster Hall, East Village
Sound: Jungle, drum and bass, breakbeats
Nia Archives makes jungle feel as urgent and alive as it should. Emotional Junglist, her July album, is restless, emotional, and built around breakbeats that refuse to sit still. With BAMBII on the bill, there's plenty here for anyone who likes their dancing fast, sweaty, and a bit sentimental.
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Die Spitz
Friday, November 13 · Live Show · Warsaw, Greenpoint
Sound: Punk rock, grunge, alternative metal
Loud, ferocious, and uninterested in being polite, Austin's Die Spitz moves between punk, grunge, and metal with enough conviction to make genre labels feel beside the point. Warsaw's big room gives their guitars plenty of space to cause trouble.
Hotline TNT
Friday, November 13 · Live Show · The Attic, East Williamsburg
Sound: Shoegaze, alternative rock, noise pop
Hotline TNT's guitar music feels enormous and strangely intimate at once. Will Anderson buries sweet, almost painfully direct melodies beneath walls of distortion, proof that shoegaze doesn't have to trade songwriting for volume.
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Blowout: The Bakery x Blow
Saturday, November 14 · Dance · The Bakery, 538 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick
Sound: Four-on-the-floor, underground dance music
There’s no published lineup for Blowout, just a promise of good music, a serious sound system, and an invitation to dance off whatever the week has done to you. Blow and The Bakery are keeping the programming deliberately mysterious, which is refreshing in an era when every party seems to require a manifesto. Doors at 9 PM, with drinks, snacks, and an emphasis on getting everyone under the same roof. General admission tickets are listed for $20; ticket holders get further details by email.
TVOD, The Dutch Kills + Poppy
Saturday, November 14 · Live Show · Alphaville, Bushwick
Sound: Dance-punk, post-punk, garage rock
TVOD is celebrating The Farm, its second album, out Oct. 16 on Mothland, which is as good an excuse as any to lose your composure at Alphaville. The band belongs to a fine tradition of punk acts who understand that dancing doesn't betray artistic seriousness. With The Dutch Kills and Poppy on the bill, expect loud, chaotic, and slightly ridiculous.
Mary in the Junkyard
Wednesday, November 18 · Live Show · Baby's All Right, Williamsburg
Sound: Art rock, experimental indie, alternative
Every Mary in the Junkyard song sounds on the verge of becoming something else. The London trio moves between fragile melodies, nervous guitar work, and sudden bursts of noise, with a theatricality that never feels over-rehearsed. Their debut album, Role Model Hermit, arrived this summer. Catch them in a room this size while you can.
Julia Jacklin
Wednesday, November 18 · Live Show · Music Hall of Williamsburg, Williamsburg
Sound: Indie folk, alternative rock, singer-songwriter
Julia Jacklin has a remarkable talent for making emotional restraint devastating. Her songs examine love, identity, and the small humiliations of being human with a precision that makes ordinary lines land like confessions. She's touring The Gem, her fourth album and her first for 4AD.
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Embedded in Brooklyn nightlife and the New York club scene, Alexandra Clear writes about nightlife for Now Frolic.
