There are no shortages of places where you can have a beer or a cocktail, but finding a place where you dance to an eclectic night of finely curated music that isn’t Top 40 or a throwback themed party event can be hard.
Lucky for us, over the last few years a fine group of young deejays have been so successful at mining our past and merging it with our future with a series of analog driven events that it is hard to imagine a time when they were not as happening.
And while we have had plenty of ongoing events devoted to the advancement of our DJ culture for more than a decade, the excitement around our current crop of DJs emerging in this region is what is fueling a lot of the energy.
On Thursday, one such label,
Vinyl Fetish -- a group devoted to all things vinyl (versus digital) -- will launch another edition of their Goth Night in Grand Rapids’ westside neighborhood bar,
Tip Top Deluxe Bar & Grill.
Hosted by Vinyl’s Joe Moon, Goth Night is a chance for Moon to spin some classics from an era of sounds that used to permeate many of Grand Rapids’ bars and clubs back in the day.
Joining Moon on the 1s and 2s is special guest DJ Brandon Hill of the deprived relations label.
I’ve seen this duo together in the past, and you can expect a night of delicious vinyl tracks of heavy industrial and a healthy dose of obscure dark dance music. The chance to encounter such tracks in a setting as this is exciting and, honestly, a lot of fun.
The cost to attend is free, so the risk is even less if it is not your scene.