Classic late night city bar. Deliberately unfancy, and the scene who hangs out there prefers it that way. Locals only. Darkly lit, all the furnishings are used and older than any of the patrons. Crowd is late 20s-early 30s, exceedingly knowledgeable about music. Could be now. Could be 1981. While well-crafted, well-mixed cocktails are available, most will order a Brooklyn or Lagunitas. To provide the suitable soundtrack to this nocturnal cityscape—pulsing, sexy, not slick, raw but funky, textured and varied enough to carry through a long drinking and hanging-out session—we arranged a reel of Grace Jones' dark Art Pop, Gina X Performance’s otherworldly Teutonic New Wave, the Nigerian dub-groove of the Lijadu Sisters, the anthemic dance rock of Holy Ghost!, percussive art-forward post-punk from Leslie Winer, and down with Escort’s devilish disco. Dark, sexy, and always funky.