Best of Cleveland 2014: Dance Party

Dance party

There's no bumping-and-grinding here — just good ole twisting, shaking and grooving. In place of disc jockeys on MacBooks playing the Top 40, Secret Soul Club DJs Party Sweat (Dave Petrovich), Alr!ght (Tom Dechristofaro) and Pops (Antoine Henderson) are spinning rare R&B, soul and garage 45s from the mid-'60s to the early '70s the last Friday of every month at Five O'Clock Lounge. "This music feels very live," Dechristofaro says. "People are going crazy." The trio —avid vinyl collectors with thousands of 45s — created the loud, sweaty dance party in 2012 as a way to turn people on to obscure vinyl, mostly Rust Belt finds such as the Hesitations' "Soul Superman" or the Caps' "The Red Headed Flea." People are responding: Each month nearly 200 dancers, from Gen Xers to millennials, boogie down regardless of if they've heard a tune. "Kids are crowd-surfing while we are DJing to records that are like 50 years old," Petrovich says. facebook.com/secretsoulclub