{"id":340704,"date":"2026-06-18T02:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340704\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T02:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:11:17","slug":"blade-rave-returns-to-dallas-for-bloody-fourth-of-july-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340704\/","title":{"rendered":"Blade Rave returns to Dallas for bloody Fourth of July party"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEvery Fourth of July, Dallas vampires go out for blood bag daiquiris. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Blade Rave<\/p>\n

Forget the bottle rockets. This Fourth of July, Deep Ellum is trading the usual red, white and boom<\/a> for something that\u2019s all red and far more anemic.<\/p>\n

The Blade Rave<\/a> returns to Dallas on July 4, and it has no interest in your patriotic potato salad. Picking up where last year\u2019s bloodletting left off, the party slithers into Puzzles Deep Ellum (2824 Main St.). They\u2019re calling it \u201cRed, White and Bloodbath,\u201d which is the most honest event title this city has seen in years.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve watched the movie \u201cBlade,\u201d you know the infamous vampire club scene<\/a>. A clueless mortal stumbles into an underground club, the remixed beat from New Order\u2019s \u201cConfusion\u201d starts thumping and then the sprinklers open up. Hundreds of gallons of blood rain down on a crowd of vampires until Wesley Snipes, as the daywalking vampire hunter Blade, shows up to ruin everyone\u2019s night. It is, without exaggeration, one of the greatest openings in movie history. And now Dallas suckheads<\/a> get to live it.<\/p>\n

\"\"The daywalker comes to Deep Ellum at night. <\/p>\n

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Yes, the ceiling will weep crimson. Yes, you will leave sticky. That\u2019s the whole point.<\/p>\n

The dress code writes itself: fangs in, leather on, dignity optional. The Fang Gang is running the show alongside the Dream City Dimes, so expect the kind of crowd that owns more trench coats than khakis. At the bar, the signature pour is a blood bag daiquiri, because nothing says \u201cland of the free\u201d like sipping something red out of a medical pouch while industrial beats rattle your bones.<\/p>\n

Tickets run from $20 to $25<\/a>. That\u2019s right, you can get drenched in pretend plasma for less than the cost of a single overpriced firework stand sparkler pack. Cheaper than a hot dog made from discernible meat, and infinitely more memorable.<\/p>\n

\"\"A night in Deep Ellum takes blood, sweat and tears, literally.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something gloriously Dallas about all this. While the suburbs light up the sky, Deep Ellum goes underground, turns the lights low and lets the freaks have their night. It\u2019s messy. It\u2019s silly. It\u2019s a little bit profound, in the way only a room full of strangers raising their arms toward falling blood can be.<\/p>\n

So, skip the cul-de-sac. Choose blood gush over fireworks. Grab your fangs, book your ticket and meet the rest of the city\u2019s beautiful weirdos under the sprinklers.<\/p>\n

Visit the official website<\/a> to secure your place on the dance floor. Doors open at 9 p.m. You must be 21 to enter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every Fourth of July, Dallas vampires go out for blood bag daiquiris. Courtesy of Blade Rave Forget the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8408,102,104,103,64,1972,13997],"class_list":["post-340704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-city-guide","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-events","tag-holidays","tag-paranormal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}