Diane & I saw The Crystal Method (TCM) last night at Nation, a very cool venue in southeast DC. The club is insanely cool with three different rooms, multi-floors, multi-bars, and a sound system to shake your entrails.

We got there around 10:30 pm and hung out at the bar and in the front room, where a house DJ was spinning some good tunes. After a couple of vodka tonics, they opened the main area where we went in and climbed up the stairs to the mezzanine overhang. We could watch the stage as the opening act, Len Lazee, was spinning some good tunes. After watching from above for awhile, we went downstairs to the main dance floor and grooved to the tunes. At midnight, Crystal Method started up their set and we kept on dancing. TCM is amazing! We took our sweaty bodies off the floor for a bit to get another drink and relax upstairs. Then, back down to more dancing. Glow sticks were everywhere and a few had them tied to long ropes, which they spun around, searing neon images onto our retinas. More dancing and some Red Bulls and vodka later, we continued dancing until 2:30 AM. We had to catch the last metro out of the area to get back to our car. We got home by 3:30-ish and collapsed into bed around 4 am.

This was THE BEST set and THE BEST club I’ve ever experienced. The music was amazing and TCM was hands above everyone else spinning. But, the other DJs were flat out amazing! Great club, great music, and great company!

Sadly, Nation is closing after a blowout weekend in mid-July, to make way for the new baseball stadium and gentrification project for that part of DC. So, if you can, check out a night there before they close down. I’m sure other clubs will pick up the slack and maybe even the people who run the different events now at Nation will open up a new place, but this venue is really an awesome place to be in the wee hours of the night and morning!

We took the photo below from the catwalk above the main room’s dance floor. Nation staff were also wandering the floor taking photos and I put a few of them up on a separate page. Besides the ones of TCM, you’ll see a few dance scenes, including the spinning glow sticks, that feature Diane and I on the dance floor. See if you can find the shaved head guy in black and his hot wife, in a black shell!