Words by Carrie Stetler | Images by Akintola Hanif
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QXT's, which bills itself as “New Jersey’s #1 alternative dance club,’’ looks like some forbidden dungeon at Medieval Times, where the lords wear black lipstick and the ladies dance to Joy Division. For more than 20 years, the cavernous club has been a well-kept secret in downtown Newark, continuing to thrive long after NYC goth clubs and industrial dance halls have folded. It survives by being a kind of umbrella institution for various alternative sects: rivet heads, vampires, drag queens, aging punks, metal heads, eccentric loners and people who just want to shake their asses to the darker side of 80's pop. Read More
