TV Lounge sits at 2548 Grand River Avenue. Two rooms, an outdoor patio, a sound system that has been upgraded more times than anyone working there can count. The building has been programming techno and house for over two decades.
Mister Joshooa is the music director. He has been running the rooms there for more than 20 years. The job is what it sounds like and several things it does not. He books the talent. He plays the residencies. He handles the regulars who walk in on a Tuesday and the touring DJs who fly in for one Saturday. Joshooa played his first Panorama Bar set in Berlin in April 2025. He came back the next week and worked TV Lounge.
The format. Two indoor rooms running different bookings on Saturdays. The patio in summer. A weekly residency calendar that anchors the rest of the schedule. Off-Movement weekends the room can hold 200 to 400 people. Movement weekends it sells out four nights running, and the door cost climbs from a normal $20 to $40 per night.
The House of EFUNK is the room's marquee event. Soul Clap — Eli Goldstein and Charles Levine — have produced the EFUNK weekender at TV Lounge for over a decade, in partnership with Paxahau, with two nights of house and disco programming each Movement weekend. The 2025 edition was the 11th. Ben UFO, Joe Claussell, Roy Davis Jr., Inner City live. The room is the room.
What separates TV Lounge from the other techno-and-house options on Movement weekend is that it is a year-round room, not a Memorial Day room. The Tangent Gallery sits dark much of the year. Lincoln Factory programs heavily but inconsistently. TV Lounge is open 50-plus weekends a year and the bookings are consistent enough that the same crowd shows up monthly without checking the lineup.
The room has not pivoted. There is no rebrand to a higher-margin format. The bar still sells $7 well drinks. The bookings still skew local-and-affordable on the weekly nights and reach for the international touring roster when it can. The economics are what they are.
Joshooa's framing is that the room is a living room. The phrasing is his. The residency model produces a clientele that knows the staff, knows the booth, and shows up because the room is the point rather than because the headliner is. Most of the people there on a non-Movement Saturday are repeat customers. Few of them could name the DJ they are seeing. They came because TV Lounge is open and TV Lounge is what they like.
The booth has been the launchpad for several Detroit careers. Father Dukes opened for LTJ Bukem at Spot Lite but worked her early Sunday-morning sets in TV Lounge's smaller room. Honey Dijon's Movement appearances run there. The next-generation Detroit roster — Holographic, Mars, Mike Servito, the Soul Clap crew — has all logged hours.
TV Lounge is at 2548 Grand River Avenue.
