Best of Boston
Best Dance Club
Big Night Live
Boston
With multiple floors for dancing and drinking — including 26 VIP tables — this state-of-the-art venue books megawatt DJs, meme-inspired parties (see: June’s “ShrekRave”), and [...] read more»
2011 Best Dance Club
Middlesex Lounge
Cambridge
The Middlesex proves that a night out dancing needn't devolve into bachelorette-party debauchery. There ;will be a line—but with music ranging from old-school hip-hop to [...] read more»
2010 Best Dance Club, Grownups
Tango By Moonlight
Somerville
A cool dance night that comes with instruction? That's what you'll get when you try Tango by Moonlight, a 14-year-old tradition that takes the passion [...] read more»
2009 Best Dance Club
Middlesex Lounge
Cambridge
Don't be put off by the lines for just about everything here (entry, drinks, the lav): When you're ready to get low, there's always room [...] read more»
2008 Best Dance Club
Gypsy Bar
Boston
The average reveler out on the town cannot avoid certain pitfalls: long lines, jerk doormen, megaexpensive drinks. And so we mean this in the most [...] read more»
2006 Best Dance Club
Rumor
Boston
Step into Rumor on a Saturday night—assuming you can get in at all—and enter a world where women dance on platforms, curtains billow from the [...] read more»
2005 Best Dance Club, Gay
Avalon, Sunday nights
Boston
Many area nightspots sponsor weekly gay nights, but none satisfies the masses quite like Avalon Sundays. Beautiful players sip cocktails and get groovy in superlative [...] read more»
2005 Best Dance Club
Swing City
Cambridge
Not into urban clubs filled with grinding torsos and ear-splitting music? Check out Swing City. Don't let the '70s-era orange carpet or dark wood paneling [...] read more»
2004 Best Dance Club, Gay
Buzz
Boston
You could go to Buzz just for the bartenders—they're pure eye candy, completely unpretentious (nice, even), and they pour a stiff drink. Or, you could [...] read more»
2004 Best Dance Club
Avalon
Boston
Even after all the new additions to the roster of Lansdowne Street clubs, Avalon remains the life of the dance party. It's consistently packed, spotlights [...] read more»
2003 Best Dance Club
Sophia’s
Boston
We like our dance clubs sexy, and nothing's sexier than beautiful, sweaty couples twisting to Latin-flavored conga beats. Sophia's, which has that and more, is [...] read more»