375 Eleventh Street San Francisco 94103
Celebrating our thirty-seventh 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.
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Fri Oct 7 Batushka
Batushka! Black Metal, Death Metal, Technical Metal! Batushka (Батюшка) is a Polish black metal band formed by Krzysztof Drabikowski. Their music and lyrics, which are written exclusively in Old Church Slavonic language, are inspired by the Eastern Orthodox Church. The band members wear habits and Eastern Orthodox schemas during live performances to conceal their identities. In contrast with many other black metal bands, they use eight-string guitars.
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Fri Oct 7 Kolya + Arietta
Kolya + Arietta! D+B, Jungle, Juke And Footwork! Kolya (FKA Calculon): You know Calculon. His gargantuan beats have been destroying dancefloors for a decade, pushing the envelope at jungle, juke and hardcore parties around the globe. Classic tracks like "Fierce," "Back the Fuck Up," and his most-recent stormer "Collusion" w/ Root For The Villain have been cained on Bbc Radio, RinseFM, and by dance music dons like Rockwell, Om Unit, Toddla T and Digital, while his label Shoot Recordings is continually on the cutting edge of uptempo sounds.
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Sat Oct 8 A Black Wedding
A Black Wedding! Gothic, Industrial, Synthpop! ...Love Never Dies... 17 years ago, Sydney met Devin on the dance floor of Death Guild, and together they forged a love immersed in a subculture that can only be found where drying vodka, clove smoke, black eyeliner and distantly echoing Once Once Once can be heard. Our beloved Vampire Couple invites you to recapture San Francisco 2005, the haunted carousels of Santa Carla 1987, and ravishing streets of New Orleans 1791.
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Sat Oct 8 Secret Psychedelica
Libra 2022
Secret Psychedelica: Libra 2022! Psytrance, House, Techno, D+B! The 4th annual Libra party returns to the DNA Lounge kicking off the first Secret Psychedelica night of the fall season! The Libra gathering has been a fun balance of great music with beautiful people since 2018 and the tradition continues in 2022!! Come celebrate the birthdays of those born under the seventh sign of the zodiac accompanied by music from an all Libra lineup that includes psytrance artists Throw3r, TechnoHippy, and Flowhawk 6!
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Tue Oct 11 Booze and Glory
Booze and Glory! Punk! Punk rock never died. It just has the occasional nap. Fortunately, however, Booze and Glory have been keeping everyone wide awake for the last decade, flying the flag for authentic working class rock'n'roll and the power of a rabble-rousing tune. Formed in London in 2009, Booze and Glory started life as a straight-ahead salute to the rowdy street punk and Oi! bands of the late '70s and '80s UK scene.
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Fri Oct 14 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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Sun Oct 16 Hubba Hubba Revue
Haunted
Hubba Hubba Revue: Haunted! Burlesque! Gorgeous ghosts, glamor ghouls, and things that go bump & grind in the night! Join San Francisco's world-famous Hubba Hubba Revue for the sexiest seance in burlesque!
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Sun Oct 23 Just Add Heather
Just Add Heather! Burlesque! Join us for hot, live baking on stage as chef-chanteuse, Heather Thiel, her band, & a banquet of top talent cabaret acts, spice up your Sunday evening with San Francisco's only culinary cabaret!
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Fri Oct 28 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 twenty-first spoooooky year throwing this party! We're bringing you a super-sized Halloween madhouse! 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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Sun Oct 30 Julien-K + Priest
Julien-K + Priest! Electro Rock, Industrial, Synthwave, Synthpop! Julien-K is a side project for electronic music created by Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck from Orgy. Nearly four years after their previous outing, Julien-K are back with their fifth studio album, Harmonic Disruptor. After a successful Indiegogo campaign that saw the funding goal for the record being reached within the first 30 minutes of it going live, it's been a gruelling two year wait.
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Fri Nov 4 Aesthetic Perfection
Aesthetic Perfection! Gothic, Industrial, Ebm! Electronica meets industrial with this one man band. Daniel Graves created Aesthetic Perfection at the dawn of the 21st century -- decades later, his vision is truer than ever, drawing on punk, pop, metal, and everything in between. Crafting sparse and dark songs to (what else) perfection, Graves hand makes every drum beat, every synth sound, and every lyric. There's some definite misfit sex appeal to Aesthetic Perfection, though it transcends all the temporal things like gender.
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Tue Nov 8 Urban Heat + Death Valley High
Urban Heat + Death Valley High! Post-Punk, Rock, Industrial, Synthwave! Urban Heat fuse dark 80s stylings with modern flourishes, with Horstmann's throaty baritone delivering musings on existence and romanticism against an unrelenting industrial gothic pulse. Their live show is undeniably energetic and engaging. "A lightning rod of dark electro/proto-punk/new wave/synth wave/part goth/part industrial sound that is all the things but...simultaneously transcending them into something fresher" - Laurie Gallardo, KUTX 98.9
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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, and cocktails. Also fries, wings, tots, and other delicious fried items. See our menu for options. Join us in our dining room or parklet before or after your night of clubbing!