The Living Room Bar / Live Music Venue / Lounge

Lower East Side, New York –

Home to two hopping venues and a swinging bar, The Living Room is a cocktail lounge and live music club that draws an outgoing, music-loving clientele.

Festive blues, yellows, and greens set an upbeat tone at the front bar, whose comfy red stools and scattering of plush sofas and chairs provide a place to hang out between sets.

Once the show starts, the everyman-rocker crowd makes its way to the spacious back room to settle in at candlelit cocktail tables, order drinks from the sassy punk waitresses, and nod along as low-key indie acts strum soothing tunes on stage.

Patrons looking for a heavier vibe can head upstairs to Googie’s Lounge, a more intimate music spot decked out in heavy curtains, beads, candles, and aquatic blue lighting, where more intense performers play to rapt audiences enjoying the freedom to express their own brand of weirdness.

Although the live music at both venues is the main draw, early evenings also see the Living Room’s front bar packed with a crowd of noisy but amiable locals, uptown musicians, successful artists, and ultra-chill hipsters – and with only an occasional cover charge, this a great spot for spontaneous club-hoppers, too.