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Bushwick Nightly: Underground Raves, POC Queer Collectives and Neo-Goth Parties

A rave is not something you can just buy. A rave is something that you help to create.

By Maya Lekach

Nov. 7, 2019 · 5 min read

Music and Nightlife

Bushwick Nightly: Underground Raves, POC Queer Collectives and Neo-Goth Parties

A rave is not something you can just buy. A rave is something that you help to create.

Maya Lekach November 7, 2019Nov 7, 2019 · 5 min read

Halloween has ended, and a new season emerges (hello leggings under our pants… again!). But, perhaps, an era in underground raving has surfaced due to some unseemly events that took place over the past weekend.

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