Juneteenth: Daniro, DJ Slugo b2b DJ THADZ, MORENXXX & SLICK DOWN

This year’s Juneteenth festivities at Nowadays slip into full-on club mode with an intrepid Friday night of dynamic dancefloor programming celebrating the legacy, diversity, inventiveness, and impact of Black and Afro-diasporic music, culture, artistry, achievement, survival, and joy in America and beyond. This lineup joins movers and shakers with radical innovators whose bodies of work have actively shaped the sounds and scenes driving historical and contemporary Black American club music excellence. Founder of Soft n’ Supple, a Brooklyn club night centering Black femme supremacy, affirming body positivity, sexual liberation, and radical joy, and uplifting underrepresented voices in queer underground music, NYC-based DJ, event producer, multidisciplinary artist, dominatrix, showgirl, and self-described highly sensitive Black woman Daniro always brings her hallmark hard-hitting sensuality to the decks, flawlessly intertwining genres like ghetto tech, juke, jungle, deep house, bounce, and southern hip-hop with care, urgency, and energetic passion. Two of ghetto tech, juke, and footwork’s OG figureheads take the stage for an electrically raunchy and relentlessly jacking b2b honoring the legacy of the Chicago sounds they helped both pioneer and boost to global acclaim. Active since the early 1990s, South Side Chicago-born DJ Slugo is a legendary DJ, prolific producer, and co-founder (alongside Paul Johnson and DJ Deeon) of the iconic label Dance Mania Records, whose catalog charts the evolution of the city’s underground house and battle dance sound from ghetto house to juke, footwork, and beyond, establishing the careers of countless Chicago-based producers including DJ Thadz. DJ Thadz is a true architect of Chicago’s underground sound, fusing the raw energy of ghetto house with the high-speed innovation of footwork on releases with Dance Mania Records and his own label Clownhouse Muzik, which played a pivotal role in launching the careers of the late, great DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, giving them their first album releases and, following in the footsteps of Dance Mania, helping shape the evolution of footwork music and drive Chicago’s dancefloors into the future. Also hailing from Chicago’s underground, NY-based DJ, producer, antidisciplinary artist, and Nowadays resident MORENXXX sculpts hypnotic sound fields brimming with rapturous percussion, ethereal intensity, and radical vitality, weaving machinic grooves and infectious rhythms from Black and Afro-Caribbean cultural, conceptual, and dance music idioms into something otherworldly, boundless, and undeniably all their own. Both honoring Black electronic legacies while embracing future-oriented genre-agnostic experimentation, SLICK DOWN is the collective vision of NYC-based artists Simisola, Love Higher and wahala.wav, who have created a platform for centering, celebrating, and collaboratively exploring the expansiveness of Black voices in electronic music through label releases, parties, and educational programming. Kinetic, unpredictable, lush, and hard-hitting: SLICK DOWN’s sound is as diverse as it is capacious, amalgamating heavy, rhythmic, bass-driven global club textures while always bringing deep, soulful, and evocative strains of Black electronic tradition to the forefront. /// RSVP is $10 before 11pm and $15 before midnight. An RSVP is good for one person. If you're bringing friends, please have them RSVP here as well. We stop taking RSVPs at 6pm on the day of the party. In order to receive the RSVP discount, you must be at the ticket desk by the cutoff time and not just in line. It's wise to arrive early to make sure you're not standing in line when the time comes. An RSVP does not guarantee entry. Sometimes parties do sell out, so if you want to be sure you'll get in, it's best to grab a ticket in advance. /// Entry is at the discretion of our door staff. Online purchases are limited to four tickets maximum per person. If tickets are sold out here, we always hold a good amount at the door. We will do our best to admit those without tickets but entrance is not guaranteed. Violence, non-consensual touching, racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, ageist or other discriminatory language, and leering are not allowed within our walls or in our back yard. If someone says or does something to make you feel uncomfortable while you’re here, let us know. /// Accessibility: The wheelchair entrance to our indoor space is in the driveway, which is the access point most commonly used to enter Nowadays. During parties the driveway gate is locked, so please ask staff at the street entrance for assistance with entry. All of our bathrooms are gender-neutral. There is one accessible stall indoors. Just ask any Nowadays staff member for the key, and they can show you the way. During parties, seating is available both on and off the dance floor. While we don’t have a dedicated quiet space indoors during parties, the booths next to coat check are a little quieter, and the deck and back yard a little quieter than that. Most nighttime parties include the use of strobe lights and water based haze.