Bar 35's very first late-night turntablist weekly, The A-List, boasts a soundtrack so modern indie-cool, it hurts. Once home to a bit too comfortably numb Saturday night, the downtown beer lounge now regularly hosts a crowd that digs Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Now if we could only get some of these kids to dance.

THE A-LIST

Where: Bar 35, 35 N. Hotel St.

When: 10 p.m.2 a.m. Saturdays

Phone: 537-3535

Cover: Free

Got parking? No. Take it to the streets and public lots.

The appeal: Bar 35's first late-night DJ weekly. Bar 35 with turntablists. Bar 35 with a Saturday night crowd.

I'm under 21: Download Apples in Stereo, listen at home.

I'm over 40: Download Apples in Stereo, meet the kids who love it.

The crowd: Fashionable twentysomething hipsters with a sprinkling of thirtysomethings.

The vibe: Think Bar 35's usual downtown cool lounge flavor with a matching Saturday-night-in-a-Gotham-boite soundtrack and the genre's young aficionados.

The soundtrack: Nonpopulist indie-pop, post-modern rock, electro-pop over Bar 35's warm-toned speaker system. Depeche Mode. The Strokes. Of Montreal. Peter Bjorn & John. Arcade Fire.

Chances of hearing Scissor Sisters: Better than getting some actual Elton John.

Chances of hearing Yo La Tengo: So good I waited for some.

What to wear: Dressy or casually dressy will work. Be warned, though, that even the casually dressy folk didn't appear to have arrived at that look on the cheap (some dude with a UH-Football tee notwithstanding).

11:30 p.m., sunk in a leather lounger: A trio of leggy blondes take flash photos of themselves in various poses. A trio on the other half of my lounger talk about Iraq and Boggle.

Single and looking? Look elsewhere. Bar 35's renowned Friday night mack scene softens 24 hours later, accommodating klatches of socializing friends.

Shall we dance? There's room for it. But no one really did.

Midnight in the garden of beer and bamboo: "It's kind of like being at Punahou again," a female patron whispers to me in the outdoor bamboo garden, scanning the crowd. Admittedly, the terrace-lounging crowd does have a kind-of cool-kids-in-the-quad-at-recess vibe.

Dig DJs Ross Jackson's and Davey Shin-Dig's sets? Tune to KTUH-FM for Ross's "Daydream Nation," noon-3 p.m. Wednesdays; Davey's "Party Shuffle," noon-3 p.m. Fridays.

Other Bar 35 weeklies: Thursday's Live@35 featuring Jason Alan's soulful acoustics, 9 p.m. Coming soon: A Tuesday local indie film night.

Reach Derek Paiva at dpaiva@honoluluadvertiser.com.