Fusion is a dance club located in Seattle's U-District, near the University of Washington. Fusion is one of the only places in town that allows guests under 21 but also serves alcohol. Guests under 21 may be distinguished by bracelets or stamps at the bar, but not on the dance floor. The club interior is expansive and open to accommodate the wall-to-wall sea of people that enter the crowd on event nights, which feature exclusive DJs or other performing artists.
Fusion is a favorite among college students looking for house music, lasers and lots of dancing. Seattle has a diverse and vibrant club scene with several live music venues, night clubs and discotheques. Although most of these businesses are only available to patrons age 21 or older, there are a few clubs that are are all ages, and some that open their doors to guests 18 years of age or older on specific nights.
Many nightclubs use bouncers to choose who can enter the club, or specific lounges or VIP areas. Some nightclubs have one group of bouncers to screen clients for entry at the main door, and then other bouncers to screen for entry to other dance floors, lounges, or VIP areas. For legal reasons, in most jurisdictions, the bouncers have to check ID to ensure that prospective patrons are of legal drinking age and that they are not intoxicated already. In this respect, a nightclub's use of bouncers is no different from the use of bouncers by pubs and sports bars. However, in some nightclubs, bouncers may screen patrons using criteria other than just age and intoxication status, such as dress code, guest list inclusion, and physical appearance.
The Masquerade is one of Atlanta's hottest and most well-known clubs, with diverse programming and exciting live music nearly every night of the week. Teenagers ages 18 and up will love catching shows and dancing in the Masquerade's three indoor venues, aptly deemed Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. The Masquerade is also located in a scenic, convenient location in the heart of downtown, and is surrounded by a huge brick open-air courtyard.
Be sure to check their events calendar ahead of time, as there are always different shows, theme nights, release parties and more, depending on the night. The under 21 crowd definitely love to play here. A sizzling standout amongst teen clubs in Atlanta, Club Miami features a jam-packed dance floor and substantial after-midnight entry lines that confirm its status as a red-hot nightspot for the under 21 set. Friday nights and Saturday lesbian nights draw a fun-loving 18-and-over crowd ready to party until morning, shimmying on the dance floor to the enticing beat of hip-hop favorites. Celebrity appearances are also common, with past guests including Soulja Boy and Roscoe Dash.
So after getting famished from all the dancing, there are plenty of ethnic restaurants open late to fill you up. Neighbours is one of Seattle's most popular GBLT nightclubs. Neighbours offers house music and dancing, and on Friday and Saturday, people age 18 and over are welcome for dancing from 2 a.m to 4 a.m. Neighbours' unique layout consists of two floors. The main level features a recessed dance floor with mirrored pillars that reflect the moves of experienced dancers.
The second floor is made up of a framing catwalk that looks down onto the rest of the club. It is the perfect place to rest while looking for a new dance partner. Atop the popular restaurant 5Church Atlanta you find Virtue Rooftop, the sexiest rooftop bar in Midtown Atlanta. Enjoy an extensive selection of wine and beer, specialty cocktails, as well as a variety of shareable dishes. All served in a sophisticated, yet fun and upbeat atmosphere, with a rotating roster of live musicians and DJs.
Renovated in 2018, Whiskey Blue is a trendy and chic Atlanta cocktail lounge, complete with not one, but two rooftop patios. Perched on top of the modern boutique hotel Hotel Colee, Atlanta Buckhead, the rooftop bar offers magnificent views of Buckhead, Lenox Square and the Atlanta city center and skyline. Popular lounge and a hotel bar definitely not only visited by inhouse guests but also by the local crowd. Enjoy Crafted classic and house cocktails, locally brewed craft beers, a selection of signature lite bites and even a cigar. Found right by the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta, the Reverb by Hard Rock comes with a hot and trendy top floor venue, called RT60 Rooftop Bar.
Open during weekends, this is a perfect place to relax and socialize in downtown, quite often with live music and DJs as soundtrack. Cafe' Circa is the only venue in the Old Forth Ward that has an open rooftop capturing the bejeweled downtown Atlanta skyline. CC's Rooftop provides full bar and menu service.
Guests can enjoy a live DJ on some evenings or feel good high energy music in the heat of Atlanta summer nights. The rooftop is also available for private events. Located in downtown Atalanta, on top of the historic boutique Glenn Hotel. This rooftop cocktail bar has been praised in various magazines and websites as one of the best rooftop bars Atlanta has to offer.
With a mix of sophistication and relaxed Southern charm, SkyLounge is decorated with modern lounge chairs and resembles something of a luxurious porch. It also offers fantastic views over the Atlanta skyline. Serving well-crafted mixologist cocktails along with appetizers, this is a great spot for a fun but classy night out with friends. By the late 1970s, many major U.S. cities had thriving disco club scenes centered on discothèques, nightclubs, and private loft parties where DJs would play disco hits through powerful PA systems for the dancers.
The DJs played "a smooth mix of long single records to keep people 'dancing all night long'". Some of the most prestigious clubs had elaborate lighting systems that throbbed to the beat of the music. In Germany during the Golden Twenties, there was a need to dance away the memories of the First World War. In the 1920s, the nightlife of the city was dominated by party drugs such as cocaine. Hundreds of venues in the city, which at the time had a sinful reputation, offered in addition to bars, stages, and dance floors an erotic nightlife, such as small booths where lovers could withdraw to for intimate moments.
These venues were aimed at rich and poor people, gays, lesbians, nudists, and gangsters alike. On Monday nights, this live music venue and bar (known locally as "Star Bar") becomes one of the city's best comedy clubs. The free "Rotknee Presents Monday Nite Comedy" show features 16 local acts whose wicked humor fits right in with the ultra-eclectic Little Five Points neighborhood.
Every other night of the week, Star Bar is known for its community rock-and-roll scene. A little bit off the beaten path from the rest of the chic nightclubs in Atlanta, off of Marietta St. in West Midtown, nightlife enthusiasts will find Compound. Known for its eclectic mix of Techno, EDM, House, Dubstep, and all things Electro, Compound has become a destination for weekend dancing. With plenty of room on the dance floor, the lounge, and the bar, this venue gives club goers space to check each other and their environment out. The VERA Project is an all-ages live music venue featuring the very best of Seattle's local musicians.
Teenagers pack into a large black room with high ceilings to dance to the tunes of their favorite artists. The VERA Project provides good, clean fun for youth, with shows rival those at Seattle's most revered venues. The project allows artists to directly connect with an all-too-often neglected part of their audience. The VERA Project is located downtown, near Seattle Center, and is an alcohol-free venue at all times. Six Feet Under Pub and Fish House has two locations in Atlanta, Westside and Grant Park, both equipped with rooftop bar. While they are very similar in look and what's on offer, it is the one located in West Midtown that offers the best views, with great vistas over the Atlanta skyline.
Relaxed and rustic in vibe and decor, the rooftop servers great dishes from the south and from the sea along with a large selection of draft beers, house specials cocktails, Tequilas and Martinis. Popular, so be in good time for a spot on those sunny days. 7,500 square feet with two floors of lavish décor that will invigorate the senses, an astounding audio-visual environment and world- class customer service. The Gold Room proudly boast a new innovative and chic character that is unlike any venue in Atlanta. Their space is ideal for your next corporate event, bar/bat mitzvah, cocktail reception, TV/Film wrap party/screening, launch party, charity benefit, fashion show, or live entertainment. Their experienced event specialists can assist you from beginning to end with full event production and party planning.
While Opera is usually a 21+ club, it does host college nights for the 18 and up crowd. You get your full loud music club experience here, so if you're looking for a party, this is the place to head. You'll find a lot of people and a lot of dancing, with consistently packed Friday and Saturday nights. Guest DJs come in from all over the country to spin the hottest music to hit the dance floor to.
You have to try Opera at least once during your time in Atlanta. A strict dress code is enforced, so dress to impress. Maybe you need to blow off some serious steam with your crew at an all-night dance party, or maybe you want to impress that special someone with a venue that's a little more discreet and sophisticated. Either way, if you're looking to drink and party the night away, check out one of the lively nightclubs, music venues, dance halls and raucous haunts that populate this list. During the 1980s, during the New Romantic movement, London had a vibrant nightclub scene, which included clubs like The Blitz, the Batcave, the Camden Palace, and Club for Heroes.
These clubs grew out of the earlier Mandrake and Billy's (later Gossip's) at 69 Dean Street, in the basement below the ground floor Gargoyle Club. Both music and fashion embraced the aesthetics of the movement. Bands included Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Human League, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, and Ultravox.
Reggae-influenced bands included Boy George and Culture Club, and electronic vibe bands included Visage. At London nightclubs, young men would often wear make-up and young women would wear men's suits. Leigh Bowery's Taboo bridged the New Romantic and acid house scenes. The "Kakadu" (1919–1937), one of Berlin's best-known dance- and nightclubs since the early 1920s, offered a bar, a dance floor, live music played by jazz band, and cabaret. The first nightclubs appeared in New York City in the 1840s and 1850s, including McGlory's and the Haymarket.
They enjoyed a national reputation for vaudeville, live music, and dance. They tolerated unlicensed liquor, commercial sex, and gambling cards, chiefly Faro. Practically all gambling was illegal in the city , and regular payoffs to political and police leadership was necessary.
Prices were high and they were patronized by an upscale audience. Timothy Gilfoyle called them "the first nightclubs". By contrast, Owney Geoghegan ran the toughest nightclub in New York, 1880–83. It catered to a downscale clientele and besides the usual illegal liquor, gambling, and prostitution, it featured nightly fistfights, and occasional shootings, stabbings, and police raids.
Webster Hall is credited as the first modern nightclub, being built in 1886 and starting off as a "social hall", originally functioning as a home for dance and political activism events. A nightclub (music club, discothèque, disco club, or simply club) is an entertainment venue during nighttime comprising a dance floor, lightshow, and a stage for a disc jockey where a DJ plays recorded music. Buckhead Village, once a notorious nightlife district, was mercilessly bulldozed in 2007 but its indulgent spirit only went underground.
The old hood's curious mixture of playfulness and tenacity lives on in Prohibition, a cigar bar that bills itself as a 1920's speakeasy. Guests enter a British red telephone box, dial a "secret" number, then push a hidden door to find a well-appointed throwback to classic jazz cabarets. With the stricter-than-usual dress code and $13 cocktails, it may feel like a production. Still, Prohibition makes for a charming place to reminisce about drinking in the old days.
The largest of the VIP lounges, at 985 square feet, The JAY-Z Lounge can accommodate up to 80 guests. Luxurious bespoke lounge seating encircles a custom billiard table, 4–75 inch & 2–55 inch screen HD televisions, custom chandeliers, cerused oak paneling with silver leaf detailing, and stately wood floors enhance the décor. An infinity mirror style sports display case holds a valuable collection of one-of‐a‐kind sports memorabilia. The room comes fully equipped with an independent audio and visual system including an iPod station dock. Atlanta's nightlife is full of a lively kaleidoscope of lounges, millennium-magnet clubs, bars, taverns and old-school hangouts, especially since the city's bars and clubs have reopened.
The best Atlanta nightclubs all cater to strong local communities, newcomers or visitors. At Johnny's Hideaway, you'll be taking a step back into the past. A part of the Atlanta scene since 1979, the club offers the "Sinatra Room" as well as the "King's Corner." Listen to music from the 50's to today, from disco to shag, while you dine or dance the night away.
Come prepared to make your requests on All-Request Mondays and enjoy Ladies Night every Wednesday. Check the online schedule of live talent to catch an up-and-coming band or a local favorite. Dive bars offer more than budget drinks and a small cast of colorful regulars.
These low-key establishments also offer respite from the daily grind and crowds who often frequent the city's trendier watering holes. It's hard to beat a dive bar on some nights. Sometimes all one really wants is to relax solo with a good book or with a group of good friends and to escape the frenetic pace of life with loaded nachos and wings paired with a cold beer, rum and Coke, or a well shot. Keep in mind that many Atlanta nightclubs are more exclusive and require bottle service to get in.
You can sign up for the guest list on our events page. It's probably safe to say that going out for drinks is the most popular nighttime move for everyone ages 21 and up, but that doesn't mean you have to settle for your typical neighborhood bar. This year alone, Atlanta's bar scene has gotten a huge upgrade, and two of the most stunning new watering holes are JoJo's Beloved and The Bar at the Illuminarium. JoJo's Beloved's moody and nostalgic decor is a cocktail lounge that looks like it came out of a scene of Bad Times at the El Royale, so don't hesitate to book a reservation there. Wall-to-wall projections will transport you through several magical immersive settings, so prepare to enjoy some drinks and tapas and be amazed. Atlanta nightlife is back like it never left because despite a short period of lockdowns during the start of the pandemic, it really never did leave.
What Clubs Can You Get In At 18 From The Music Room bidding farewell to Edgewood Avenue last fall to the Castleberry Hill 2nd Friday Art Stroll taking a hit, there's a lot to miss. But thanks to new late-night spots like The Bar at the Illuminarium and Puttshack, there are still plenty of great things to enjoy about Atlanta's vibrant dark side. Here is everything that you can do in Atlanta after dark.
