375 Eleventh Street San Francisco 94103
DNA Lounge has been one of San Francisco's most popular nightclubs for over thirty years, 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 24/7 restaurant and cafe!
Most recently declared both "Best Dance Club" and "Best Live Music Venue" in the 2017 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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Mon Sep 25 Death Guild
Death Guild! Gothic, Industrial, Synthpop! Death Guild is the oldest weekly goth/industrial dance night in the country, and the second oldest in the world! Every Monday, six DJs in two rooms play a mix of gothic, industrial, synthpop, noise, ambient, and weird stuff for those who love the darker side of things.
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Mon Sep 25 Monday Night Hubba
Burn Unit Hubba
Alexa's Birthday Roast
Monday Night Hubba: Burn Unit Hubba: Alexa's Birthday Roast! Burlesque! It's our biggest birthday bash in a month of Mondays! The Hubba Hubba Revue gang sharpens our knives -- and dons on our flame-retardant undies -- for a night of heartfelt love, and vicious, scorching, hilarious burns, at Alexa Von Kickinface's Birthday Roast! Monday Night Hubba is the perfect way to start your week sexy: with cocktails, tease, comedy and a more intimate experience than Hubba's big monthly extravaganzas!
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Wed Sep 27 Ex Mortus
Ex Mortus! Metal! A love of hard rock and heavy metal has been a common bond for Conan and Mario Moreno of Ex Mortus since the cousins dressed up as KISS' Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley for Halloween as kids in the late 90s. Now in their mid-20s, they are the frontman/guitarist and drummer for thrash metal upstarts Exmortus. The band just released it's third album, Slave To The Sword and its sound is a blistering blend of Euro-influenced, neo-classical thrash metal.
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Thu Sep 28 Control
Funtcase
Control: Funtcase! Dubstep, Trap, House! Control is an 18+ event focusing on the more bass-heavy acts in dance music. This night brings both established, internationally touring acts such as Nghtmre, Trippy Turtle and Nero, while also serving as a launching point for many up-and-coming acts you may not have heard of yet (but definitely should).
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Fri Sep 29 Hotline
Hotline! Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Britpop! San Francisco's MEGA Indie Dance Party is back! San Francisco's most infamous indie dance parties and 13 local DJs UNITE for a monumental evening of indie music - one of the largest of its kind - EVER. Playing music by Franz Ferdinand, Justice, White Stripes, LCD Soundsystem, Grimes, The Killers, Matt & Kim, The Strokes, The Smiths, Daft Punk, Bag Raiders, Interpol, Empire of the Sun, The XX, Icona Pop, Bloc Party, The Rapture, Cut Copy, CSS, Ladytron, Passion Pit, The Gossip, Classixx, Little Boots, Hot Hot Heat, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Basement Jaxx, Blur, Moving Units, MSTRKRFT, Crystal Castles, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Underworld, Stardust, Tigertown, Soulwax, Moby, Pnau, Robyn, Annie, Yelle, Le Tigre, Phoenix, Calvin Harris, MGMT, Belle & Sebastian, The Cure, ADULT., Bowie, Shamir, RAC, The Knife, STRFKR, Penguin Prison, Capital Cities, Goldfrapp, !!!, Peaches, The Postal Service, Chromeo, & more!
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Sat Sep 30 Bootie SF
Rihanna Grande
Bootie SF: Rihanna Grande! Mashups! Rihanna and Ariana Grande get the Bootie mashup treatment, as resident DJs Tripp, and Tyme mix and mash them up with anybody and everybody! It's Rihanna Grande Mashup Night! Four rooms of music for one price, plus the Monster Drag Show. Launched in 2003 by San Francisco DJ duo A Plus D, Bootie is the first and biggest mashup dance party in the world, mashing up pop songs both past and present.
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Sun Oct 1 Grow The Scene
Rocktober Fest
Grow The Scene: Rocktober Fest! Rock! Performing Live: On The Frontlines. Violent Obsession. Lychdom. The Killer Within. Kah-Preh. Triggered Heart. Fellow Vessel. Woolsey.
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Sun Oct 8 Soulfly
Soulfly! Metal! Fronted by the mighty Max Cavalera (former lead singer of Sepultura) Soulfly is the next logical step in tribal thrash crossover. With lyrical topics ranging from spirituality and religion to hatred and violence, Max Cavalera delivers one rollercoaster ride of a show. By intertwining thrash metal riffs and down beats, with Brazilian tribal drums and other traditional instruments found in Brazilian music, Soulfly's show is always a unique experience.
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Tue Oct 10 Barb Wire Dolls
Barb Wire Dolls! Punk! Barb Wire Dolls moved from the crisis-ridden country of Greece to California, released what was critically heralded as "The Best Punk Album in 20 Years," and took on the world's greatest stages. After 650 shows in 22 different countries in 4 years, Greece's biggest rock export are hitting fans with a force not experienced in decades with danceable and melodic sounds that bring back the spirit of rock and roll of decades past for a new generation to experience, Barb Wire Dolls are touted by the global press as "A unique mix of Blondie, Nirvana, and U2" and heralded as "The Most Exciting Band in 20 Years."
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Wed Oct 11 Slough Feg
Slough Feg! Metal! Slough Feg has a style that is best described as an eclectic mix of Celtic Folk and Traditional Metal peppered with buckets of energy and lyrical depth. The band, who's name is derived from a character in ancient Irish mythology, originates from Central Pennsylvania and relocated to San Francisco in 1990 in hopes of resurrecting the ailing 'true metal' scene in the United States. The band quickly gained a reputation as, 'the band San Francisco loved to hate' by taking a stand against the trends and incorporating stage savagery with strong visual imagery.
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Fri Oct 13 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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Tue Oct 31 All Hallow's Eve
All Hallow's Eve! Pop, New Wave, Gothic, Industrial, 80s! If there was ever a holiday created just for DNA Lounge that holiday is Halloween, and this is our sixteenth 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 aerialists and skillful circus syrens performing all night to the top DJs in Halloweentown!
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Join us at DNA Pizza, our attached restaurant and cafe, right next door. DNA Pizza is open 24/7, and we deliver late. 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 do a lot more than pizza: we offer custom deli sandwiches, salads, breakfast items, pastries, espresso drinks, and of course a full bar and free wifi. Join us before or after your night of clubbing, for happy hour, or come hang out during the day and watch our massive collection of music videos!