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Atlanta Nightclubs & Dance Clubs
Atlanta nightclubs and dance clubs are where the city’s nightlife goes late — featuring DJs, dance floors, and high-energy party atmospheres. This page focuses specifically on venues where dancing and DJ-driven music are the primary experience.
For neighborhood bars, live music performance venues, or comedy clubs, explore those dedicated guides elsewhere on Creative Loafing.
Nightclubs and Dance Clubs
These venues focus on dancing, DJs, and late-night party energy.
District Atlanta
Nightclub and unique visual experience located just down the street from Sweetwater Brewing.
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Eastside Station
Welcome To Eastside Station, Gwinnett's Ultimate Party Bar!
Monday: Free Pool
Wednesday: Industry Night
Thursday: Texas Hold'Em
Friday: Dance Mix
Saturday: Dance Mix Party Live on Fox FM
Kitchen is always open late!
El Bar @ El Ponce
Located under the El Ponce on Ponce de Leon Avenue, this sleek lounge draws a young, hip crowd.
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Havana Club ATL
The Havana Club has been a fixture on the Buckhead nightlife scene since it's opening in March of 1996. Founded by seasoned entrepreneurs, The Havana Club has garnered a steady following and remained an influence on Buckhead Ave. in Buckhead until it's closing in late August 2007 for the Streets of ...
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MJQ Concourse
MJQ Concourse moved to Underground Atlanta 50 Lower Alabama St Atlanta GA 30303
The Basement
This (literally) underground club, located below the Graveyard Tavern in East Atlanta, hosts local and touring indie rock and hip-hop shows (T.I. and Iggy Azalea once shared the stage here). The aptly named space is also home to old-school dance parties.
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After Hours Clubs
SOHO (Compound)
This mega-nightclub feels kind of like a resort, with several indoor and outdoor environments, including a pool area (swimming, not billiards). A great spot for dancing, chilling, or the chance celebrity sighting.
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Night Clubs
10 High Club
This bare-bones club space beneath the Dark Horse Tavern is best known for live-band “Metalsome” hard-rock karaoke. But 10 High also hosts local and regional bands, as well as stand-up comedy shows. Patrons can enjoy food offerings from the Dark Horse upstairs, as well.
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Blue Flame Lounge
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Clermont Lounge
If you haven't witnessed Blondie, the city's most well-embraced stripper (she's appeared in the city's marketing material, for Christ's sake), crushing a beer can between her breasts, then you're not an Atlantan. The oldest strip club in Atlanta, located in the basement of the Clermont Motor Hotel, ...
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Club Bankhead
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Congas Bar & Grill
Formerly known as Club Santa Fe, this Latino nightclub is housed inside the Santa Fe Shopping Center.
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Crowe's Nest Mega-Plex
Black-owned Business
A night club with live performances, full service kitchen, and bar.
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CRU Lounge - Edgewood
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Domaine Atlanta
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Dome in the City
Dome in the City is a state-of-the-art DIGITAL event center. Twenty four projectors illuminate the entire interior and exterior of this temperature-controlled, transient venue. Standing inside the Dome, you can be visually transported to another country, stand inside a lush flower garden, stare at a...
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Embr Lounge
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Glow Bar ATL
MUSIC FOOD HOOKAH DRINKS
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Hammer's Goodtime Emporium
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Himitsu
The exclusive, "by reservation only" Japanese speakeasy specializes in craft cocktails, including signature creations – such as the Toryufu, made with per-infused vodka, Indian tonic, and white truffle honey – and fresh takes on classics. Sweet and savory menu items and pairings are provided by Umi ...
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Iris Presents
To entertain the ONLY way, the RIGHT way, the IRIS way.
"for those that know"
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International lounge just North of Buckhead. Catch the game, enjoy food, music, and dance at Josephine.
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KING OF DIAMONDS ATLANTA
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Lips Drag Queen Show Palace, Restaurant & Bar
A new drag dinner theater on Buford Highway. The place, one of four in the country (New York, San Diego, and Fort Lauderdale), is ripe with camp — kitschy taste taken to such detailed extreme that it becomes ... fabulous. The red-and-gold dining room is hung with huge chandeliers and revolving disco...
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Atlanta Nightclubs in History
Backstreet (permanently closed)
What once was ground zero for the dance-till-dawn queer crowd was Atlanta's party melting pot before it closed in 2004. Charlie Brown's X-Rated Cabaret was the terror of tourists and reluctant frat boys, while the downstairs dance pit is doubtlessly pumping. This was one of the legendary Atlanta clu...
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Richard's Club (Original Atlanta) (permanently closed)
Richard's is an Atlanta club that was big in the 1970s. Iggy and the Stooges (forerunner to Iggy Pop) played a 1973 show at this Midtown club that people were still talking about 10 years lager; Elton John showed up in a bunny suit and the Igster stage-dove through a tabletop. Also memorable were Ne...
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