375 Eleventh Street San Francisco 94103
Celebrating our thirty-sixth anniversary this year, DNA Lounge has been one of San Francisco's most popular nightclubs since 1985, hosting an always-eclectic variety of events, including all-ages live music, 18+ dance parties, burlesque shows, lecture series and private parties. Two stages, four dance floors, seven bars and a full-service late-night restaurant and cafe!
Most recently declared both "Best Dance Club" and "Best Live Music Venue" in the SF Weekly Readers' Poll, DNA Lounge has won over 60 "best of" awards from local publications like The Guardian, SF Weekly and 7x7 Magazine, and has been voted "Best Dance Club" every year since 2008.
PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED

Because antivaxxers have ruined it for everybody, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination before entering DNA Lounge: either your original CDC Vaccination Card (not a copy or photo); or the CA DPH Vaccination QR Code, downloadable from myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov. A valid, government-issued photo ID is also required for entry.

You must wear a mask while indoors.

Partially vaccinated? No. Negative test? No. Student ID? No.

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Thu Oct 21 Apothecary Raree
Dark Roots
Apothecary Raree: Dark Roots! Electroswing, Neovintage! Apothecary Raree is San Francisco's Electroswing and Neovintage Cabaret and Dance Party! Where Music is Medicine and Performance is Panacea - it Cures What Ails Ya! Come celebrate the dark roots of October with us by taking in the curative creative power of live variety entertainment, top shelf DJs and swinging dancers to carry you into the blissful night. Browse through our local artisan vendors and specialty Apothecary merch table!
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Fri Oct 22 Dead!
A My Chemical Romance Halloween Scream-Along
Dead!: A My Chemical Romance Halloween Scream-Along! Emo, Pop Punk! Come one, come all to this tragic affair... Dance, mosh, cry, rage, and scream-along at this immersive Halloween EMO Night paying tribute to the music of My Chemical Romance, plus hear more EMO and Pop-Punk anthems by Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Taking Back Sunday, Green Day, Paramore, The Used, All Time Low, AFI, Sum 41, Offspring, Yellowcard, Weezer, Boys Like Girls, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, All-American Rejects, Mayday Parade, Cute is What We Aim For, Good Charlotte, Metro Station, Fountains of Wayne, Jimmy Eat World, 3OH!3, Motion City Soundtrack, We The Kings, Linkin Park, New Found Glory, Coheed and Cambria, and more!
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Fri Oct 22 Weathers
Weathers! Indie Rock, Alternative, Post-Punk, Pop! Weathers' darkly tinged, guitar-driven alt-rock songs like "Happy Pills" and "American Dream" paint a vivid picture of young people who "can't function without weed" struggling not only to find jobs, but also an identity. "Happy Pills" is an ironic indictment of dependency, as is "Sucker," which posits that lust for another person can be just as destructive as a lust for money or drugs if you're not confident in yourself.
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Sat Oct 23 BigMuscleBears Tea Dance
BigMuscleBears Tea Dance! House! Everyone loves the Big Muscle parties. Bearrison Street Fair and the Bare Chest Calendar bring you a party not to be missed - the first BigMuscleBears Tea Dance!
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Sat Oct 23 Bootie Mashup
Bootie-O 54
Bootie Mashup: Bootie-O 54! Mashups, Pop, Throwback, Hiphop, Club Bangers, Boylesque! We're your mashup Frisco disco, as Shyboy and Nubar - our resident LA DJs -- come up to spin disco mashups and more! We're also an official after-party for the first Bearrison Street Fair in years! Sexy boylesque and pole show MANificent takes over the stage for the 11:11 Show, while Highmags makes her debut in the Hip-Hop Lounge. Showcasing the best mashups in the world ever, Bootie Mashup has been throwing genre-fluid dance parties in San Francisco (and beyond) since 2003, shamelessly combining pop songs both throwback and current.
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Sat Oct 23 Studio 51
Studio 51! Drag, Pop, Disco! From a galaxy far, far away... Drag queens, queer entertainers, and killer clowns from outer space have all touched down in San Francisco to bring you a night of looks, performances, and music! Erika Klash is the gaymer / anime / harajuku drag monster extraordinaire who served something undeniably new on DRAGULA Season 2. Her passion for blending fandom with dragdom results in nerdy innovations that must be seen to be believed.
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Thu Oct 28 Star Crash
Halloween
Star Crash: Halloween! Synthpop, Electro Pop, Indie Dance! We are not alone. From across the galaxy... STAR CRASH is back for the Halloween edition of our monthly synthpop spectacular - featuring live electronic musicians & creators from the Bay Area & beyond. Synthpop, indie dance, indie pop, electropop, space techno, darkwave, electroclash, synth rock, synthwave/popwave... all are fair game in this Neo Synth Glam Wave.
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Fri Oct 29 All Hallow's Eve
All Hallow's Eve! Indie, Pop, Synthwave, Dark Electronic, Gothic, Techno, Electro, Breaks! If there was ever a holiday created just for DNA Lounge that holiday is Halloween, and this is our eighteenth spoooooky year throwing this party! We're bringing you a double-sized Halloween madhouse in all four rooms! Join us at this can't-miss, annual event for bewitching burlesque upstairs from 10pm to 11:30pm, and ambient ghostly acrobats and skillful circus syrens performing all night to the top DJs in Halloweentown!
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Fri Nov 12 Mortified
Mortified! Hailed as a "cultural phenomenon" by Newsweek and celebrated for years by the likes of This American Life, The Today Show, The Onion AV Club, & Entertainment Weekly, Mortified is a comic excavation of teen angst artifacts (journals, poems, letters, lyrics, home movies, schoolwork) as shared by their original authors -- in front of total strangers! Where else can you hear grown men and women confront their past with firsthand tales of their first kiss, first puff, worst prom, fights with mom, life at bible camp, worst hand job, best mall job, and reasons they deserved to marry Bon Jovi?
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Sat Nov 20 Hubba Hubba Revue
Fairy Tales
Hubba Hubba Revue: Fairy Tales! Burlesque! Once upon a time, San Francisco's world-famous burlesque & variety show gathered all the wicked princesses, beautiful witches, and sexy woodland creatures, for a magical evening in The Enchanted Kingdom of Tease!
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Sat Nov 20 Pandemonio
Pandemonio! Garage Rock, Rhythm & Blues, 60s, Dance! Little Gris and Psyched! Radio present a night of Rock n' Roll music and dance party. Be prepared for a night of hip shaking music and heart pounding rhythms to get you moving on the dance floor. Bolero is a San Francisco based rock band that performs what they refer to as "FREAK-FLAG-MUSIC". Inspired by the bands of the late 60s and early 70s, The group produces a dynamic and rich range of compositions that ride the sharing borders of blues, jazz, soul, rock 'n' roll, folk, country funk, Latin and psychedelic music.
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Fri Dec 10 She Past Away
She Past Away! Darkwave, Gothic, Post-Punk! She Past Away is dark-wave with a reworked 80's sound. Signature guitar sound of the post-punk era, combined with minimalist poetry in Turkish. Often an outburst of sentimental anxiety through the nihilistic mind-frame, it is personal. Yet it is broad, a wondering mind brave enough to question taboo and existence.
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Join us at DNA Pizza, our attached restaurant and cafe, right next door. DNA Pizza is open late, and we deliver. We specialize in authentic New York-style thin crust pizza, by the slice or the whole pie. Vegetarian and vegan slices are always available, and gluten-free crust is available on request.
We also offer custom deli sandwiches, salads, cocktails, and DNA Lounge's own house brand of hand crafted, small batch vodka, rum, gin, whiskey and bourbon: by the bottle for take-out or delivery. See our menu for options. Join us in our dining room or parklet before or after your night of clubbing!