Depending on who you ask, the best party in New York City is happening in the most unlikely of spots: the dank Lower East Side dive Home Sweet Home, where a taxidermy coyote guards the bottles behind the bar and a disco ball slowly spins above a cramped dancefloor. Like some other formerly-chill neighborhood venues across downtown NYC, Home Sweet is in the midst of a post-pandemic second act as a scenester watering hole, with a line to get in that can stretch far up Chrystie Street. But only on Thursday nights, when Harrison Patrick Smith—better known as The Dare, which is what he calls his one-man electroclash act—is DJing.
One night this spring, Smith, 27, finished a cigarette and walked down Home Sweet Home’s basement steps. It was close to midnight, and he was about to play his free semi-weekly party, Freakquencies. But first he had to make it through a gauntlet of fans. A blonde girl leaning against the bar waylaid him to flirt as a few guys in leather jackets looked on enviously over their Modelos.
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