Taint (Taintdc.com) was a "monthly electro-rock indie dance night with an assortment of queer performance and video art thrown in for good measure", promoted by Danny Fowler and Karl Jones. Taint ran from June 2004 to October 2009 at DC9 in Washington, DC. View Pictures from Taint.

Taint was credited with spearheading a musical and cultural alternative to mainstream Washington gay nightlife^[1], east of its homes in Dupont Circle and 17th St ^[2]. The club night was regularly profiled in the Washington DC gay press ^[3].