Nashville Nightlife Guide: The Best Nightclubs & Bars to Check Out This Summer
- Briley Bell
- 9 minutes ago
- 7 min read
By Briley Bell
Nashville is not just a country music town after dark. Yes, there are honky-tonks on Broadway, and yes, they are worth your time at least once. But this city also has underground clubs and bars
pumping pop, house, EDM, rap, and electronic dance music, with sound systems that'll make your chest rattle in the best possible way. If you're here to go clubbing, to find a real dance floor, and hear music that makes it impossible to stand still, you are in the right city.
Night We Met: The Nashville Nightclubs Where the Bass Actually Hits
114 12th Ave N, Midtown
Night We Met opened in early 2024 in the former 12th & Porter space and it has forever changed what a night out in Nashville could actually look like. This is not a bar with a DJ in the corner. This is a real club, built from the ground up for people who came to dance.
The club runs two rooms, a lounge and a main club room, equipped with a Void Acoustics sound system that delivers the kind of clarity and low-end that makes you feel the music before your brain even registers what's playing. House, techno, EDM, electronic, pop, you name it. They rotate
a mix of local, national, and international DJs, which means no two nights feel the same and the lineup is always worth checking before you go. One weekend you might catch an underground house set that goes until 3 AM. The next it's a high-energy pop night with a crowd that knows every word. The variety is part of why people always keep coming back.
Hours: Thu & Sun from 8 PM - 1 AM | Fri & Sat 8 PM - 3 AM
Instagram: @nwm.nashville
Website: Click Here
Dirty Little Secret: What Happens in Printer's Alley Stays in Printer's Alley
210 Printer's Alley, Downtown
Printer's Alley has been Nashville's entertainment corridor since the late 1800s. It's where the printing trade operated during the day and something else entirely operated after dark. The supper clubs and jazz rooms that ran through Prohibition and beyond are gone, but the bones of that history are still there if you pay attention walking down it.
Dirty Little Secret lives in those shadows, and most people walk right past the entrance without knowing what's behind the door. Once you're inside, the room opens up into something genuinely unexpected. Dark and electric, with moody lighting, a pulse you feel in your chest, and a stage that sees live performances, surprise acts, and a rotating lineup of DJs spinning everything from EDM and Top 40 hits, to country and rap depending on the night.
Hours: Thu - Sat from 8 PM - 2 AM (Get there before 10:30 if you want to avoid a wait)
Instagram: @dirtylittlesecretnashville
Website: Click Here
The Office: East Nashville's Underground EDM Venue
604 Gallatin Ave, Suite 117, East Nashville
The Office is Nashville's premier underground EDM venue and dance club, and it has carved out a reputation as the go-to room for electronic music in a city that doesn't always make space for it. It doesn't advertise the way the bigger clubs do, and that's intentional. The crowd here came specifically for the music, which makes for a completely different kind of space than anything you'll find downtown. On any given weekend, you might find a lineup of DJs spinning house, techno, or EDM, drawing enthusiastic crowds of dancers and music lovers. The venue frequently hosts touring EDM artists alongside local up-and-coming performers, making each weekend feel like a mini music festival. If you love electronic music, have lost yourself in a crowd at Bonnaroo, EDC, or Lollapalooza, and know the difference between a bass drop that's good and one that's absolutely transcendent, The Office is going to feel like someone built it specifically for you. Same energy, same music, same crowd of people who showed up because they actually love it. Just without the tent and the sunburn.
Recently renovated to include a lounge, a large dance area, and a new green room, the space has grown into its ambitions. The sound system is the real deal, the lighting is immersive, and the atmosphere is super friendly and inclusive. You go in not knowing anyone and leave having talked to half the room. Some nights here have become the stuff of local legend, with internationally renowned DJs playing sets in an intimate space that made it feel like a once-in-a-lifetime experience for everyone in the room. Get the right DJ, the right crowd, and the right night, The Office will remind you why you love music in the first place.
If you love EDM and you're in Nashville, this is your spot.
Hours: Event-based, primarily weekends from 9 PM/10 PM - 2 AM/3 AM (depending on the event)
Instagram: @theofficenashville
Website: Click Here
Coral Club: The Best Rooftop in East Nashville
604 Gallatin Ave, Suite 217, East Nashville
Yes, Coral Club and The Office share an address. They are separate venues in the same building, which means you can walk between them and have two completely different nights without moving your car! Coral Club opened in May 2024, founded by four locally-based hospitality veterans whose combined experience covers some of Nashville's most respected bars and restaurants. Three distinct spaces give you options depending on the mood. The main bar runs dark and intimate, and if you've ever seen the Cantina scene in Star Wars, that's genuinely the vibe. Sandy tones, warm lighting, curved walls, the kind of interior that feels like it belongs somewhere in the desert. Then there's the sunroom, bright and completely different in feel, and then the rooftop.
The rooftop is the reason people keep coming back. Wide open sky, views stretching across East Nashville, and a music program built to build intensity as the night goes on. Coral Club hosts a rotating lineup of DJ takeovers, with collectives like Sauced Radio spinning house and global beats, alongside the occasional country night and curated music events. It's not a guaranteed club night every visit, more of a coastal lounge that knows how to turn the energy up when the moment calls for it.
(Happy hour runs daily from 5 to 7 PM, weekends included)
Hours: Daily from 4 PM - 1 AM
Instagram: @the.coralclub
Website: Click Here
Rosemary & Beauty Queen: East Nashville's Backyard Dance Party
1102 Forrest Ave, East Nashville
Not every great dance spot in this city is a dark room with a velvet rope. Some of them are a restored 1920s house with swings instead of bar stools and a backyard that turns into a dance floor on the weekend. Rosemary & Beauty Queen is that place, and it's one of my all time favorites in this city. The venue runs through three distinct spaces, and each one feels like a different night out entirely. Walk through the front door and you're in a dim, dark wood front bar with an old pub feel, the kind of room built for settling in and catching up before the night picks up speed. Head through to the courtyard and the mood shifts again, half beach bar with string lights overhead, half full-on outdoor club with a DJ working the room. Then there's the rooftop, tucked above the backyard with its own bar, private cabanas, and swings to sit in while you order your drink. On weekends, the outdoor space turns into a proper dance floor from 8 PM to 1AM and happy hour runs from open until 8 PM every single night. The crowd is local, the energy builds gradually, and by the time the DJ takes over and the swings fill up, it feels like the best backyard party your neighborhood never officially threw.
Hours: Mon–Thu 5 PM–2 AM|Fri 5 PM–3 AM|Sat 3 PM–3 AM|Sun 3 PM–2 AM
Instagram: @rbqnashville
Website: Click Here
Pushing Daisies: Nashville's Speakeasy Lounge & Margarita Bar
570 Broadway, Downtown (below street level)
Most people walk right over this place without knowing it exists, which is exactly what makes it worth finding. Pushing Daisies is a luxury lounge with a slightly hidden entrance across the street from Bridgestone Arena, running beneath Broadway with low ceilings, industrial wiring overhead, and more than forty different margaritas on the menu.
The name is a double pun that earns a second to appreciate. First, the Spanish word for daisy is margarita, and this place has over forty of them on the menu. Second, the bar is underground, as in beneath the earth, as in pushing up daisies. Someone connected those two dots, built an entire luxury lounge around the concept, and the result is one of the most original bar experiences in the city.
The room draws you in with DJ sets and live music that keep the energy up well into the night. The atmosphere runs dark, moody, and speakeasy-adjacent in a way that feels different from everything else happening above you on Broadway. Duck below street level. The real fun is down there.
Hours: Wed 5 PM–12 AM|Thu 5 PM–2 AM|Fri–Sat 12 PM–2 AM|Sun 12 PM–12 AM
Instagram: @drink_daisies
Website: Click Here
See the City Before You Dance in It
Every block you plan on dancing through at nightclubs in Nashville has more history than you realize. Printer's Alley alone has been collecting stories since the 1800s, most of which never make it past the locals. That's where we come in. We run Nashville walking tours that dig into the streets, the history, the legends, and the layers most visitors never get shown. Find us at Nashville Adventures!
Briley Bell is the kind of person Nashville produces once in a while and then can't quite explain. By night, she leads Nashville Adventures' ghost tours through the city's haunted corners — spinning stories of Civil War soldiers, restless spirits, and the kind of history that doesn't stay buried. By day, she's a musician and audio engineer with a sound that's all her own, the sort of Nashville artist who actually earns that title.
Her music has the same quality as her storytelling: it pulls you in, holds you still, and leaves you thinking about it longer than you expected. Give it a listen on Apple Music and SoundCloud, and connect with her on LinkedIn.
