Bang

Date: Wednesdays
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Beauty Bar (231 East 14th Street at 3rd Ave)
Cost: Free
File Under: Sweaty feel good hipster dance party
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A consistent staple on the hipster dance party/make-out party scene, this weekly dance party is a straight cure for the midweek blues. Featuring a constant rotation of dance-rock, electro, and booty bass DJs - along with constant vodka specials ensure a good time week after week.

Big Tune

Date: Wednesdays
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Baraza (133 Ave C bet. 8th and 9th)
Cost: Free
File Under: Expect the best of Reggae, Roots, International Ska & Dancehall all night long at this weekly hosted by DJ Sujinho
More Info: Big Tune MySpace page

Calling all Kids

Date: Wednesdays
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Sapphire (249 Eldridge St between Houston and Stanton)
Cost: Free
File Under: London / New York Trans-Atlantic Dance Rock Party
More Info: Calling all Kids
Every week Sapphire turns into rocking dancing madness to cover your midweek blues. "Calling all Kids is an ambitious trans-atlantic endevour consisting of two sister parties; one in New York City's ethnically diverse Lower East Side, the other in London's creative Mecca Shoreditch."

Film Fix

Date: Wednesdays
Time: 8:00pm
Location: FixLounge (110 Bedford Ave at North 11th, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
File Under: Weekly rotating obscure film series
More Info: Fix Lounge MySpace
A weekly screening series at Fix in Williamsburg. On the big screen (ok fine, it's probably actually not quite so big) they show "a wide variety of films, shorts, tv shows, obscure bits of film, trailers, features, commercials, animation, home movies (you name it) all projected in 16, 8 and super8mm!" Free Popcorn.

First Taste

Date: Wednesdays
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Hi-Fi (169 Avenue A)
Cost: Free
File Under: Weekly listening party for new and advanced music hand picked by the AddVice Crew.
More Info: First Taste Website

Pure Fire

Date: Wednesdays
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Subtonic (107 Norfolk Street)
Cost: Free
File Under: Breakcore, Grime, Dancehall, Electronic Music Underground
More Info: Tonic
A Weekly Night of Esoteric Urban Noise. DJs Criterion, Peter Gunn and Reaganomics Spin grime, breakcore, reggaeton, rap, crunk, dancehall, punk and everything in between. This is a dark, dingy spot to here some of the best sounds in the NYC electronic underground.

Throwback Wednesdays

Date: Wednesdays
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Stay (244 E Houston Between A and B)
Cost: Free
File Under: Open Bar, 80's, New Wave, Classics
More Info: Stay
Damn Pacman, your gonna eat all the good drinks... Skinny, swanky Stay hosts a weekly 80's thowback night tonight with a very Culture Club looking flyer. Open bar from 10 - 11 every week gets it going and the drinks specials take things down to normal level. Films on the projector and DJ Link on the tables.

Zeitgeist

Date: Wednesdays
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Sway (305 Spring Street bet. Hudson and Greenwich)
Cost: Free
File Under: Open Bar, Rockabilly, Punk, Soul, Glam, New Wave
More Info: Zeitgeist
With an open bar (usually) and some of the best rock DJing in the city, Zeitgeist brings a more frenetic LES vibe to the usually loungy Sway. Each week the spin the classics you love or forgot that you loved. Check the site for rotating DJs or to guarantee the open bar / bar specials.