Rock & Roll Hotel Bar / Club / Live Music Venue

H Street Corridor, Washington, DC –

Housed in a former mortuary – and possibly haunted, according to some bartenders – The Rock and Roll Hotel is a notoriously high-energy concert hall that is anything but dead. Eccentric yet classy, the two-story venue hosts locally and nationally recognized hip-hop, indie, punk, and electronic artists that draw a clientele as diverse as the musical lineup.

The Lobby Bar on the ground floor routinely packs in four hundred tattooed fans, who usually cram against the thirty-foot bar between sets before heading back to the open dance floor in front of the stage.

Well-dressed hip-hop enthusiasts looking to decompress make their way to the Hotel Bar upstairs, which offers quieter hotel-themed rooms, a small bar, and a dance floor overseen by a DJ spinning till the wee hours.

Plush antique sofas and loveseats await partiers in the My Bloody Valentine Suite, while a DC-themed décor and large Ramones wall stencil form the backdrop for groups of outgoing weekend warriors hanging out in the Presidential Suite.

Although mellower, sit-down performances are sometimes booked in the Lobby earlier in the week, Fridays and Saturdays mean a packed house and few vacancies on either dance floor.

It may not be an actual hotel, but Rock & Roll Hotel is nonetheless a home away from home for young urban music lovers.