Nightmoves

Nightmoves is a vinyl-only dance club in Williamsburg housed in a narrow back corridor behind Four Horsemen. Programmed by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, the 75-capacity venue operates with strict curation across music, cocktails, and sound design.

At 295 Grand Street, Nightmoves occupies a slim back corridor behind Four Horsemen, opening into a light-up dance floor built for 75 people and not a body more. The venue opened in 2019 as a joint project between the Four Horsemen team and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, who handles music programming: vinyl-only, no exceptions. Bar director Orlando McCray runs a tight back bar weighted toward agave, brandy, and rhum agricole, all small-producer, all expressing some legible sense of place. The same logic applies to the room itself: low capacity, no mainstream anything, the sound system treated as seriously as the pour. Nightmoves keeps returning to a single question: what does a dance bar actually owe its room?