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CBGB

  • NYC Life

    May 3, 2005

    Saved?

    CBGB's landmark fight; East Village freaks, live and on film

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1966–1975 Peace & Protest

    From the Summer of Love to Women's Lib, Gay Rights and Black Panthers

  • NYC Life

    August 29, 2006

    Hip-Hop's New No Wave

    Downtown's odd relationship with rap bravado continues this fall—now with Muppet costumes

  • NYC Life

    January 12, 1999

    Bowery Mission

    Downtown's odd relationship with rap bravado continues this fall—now with Muppet costumes

  • Music

    March 23, 1999

    Sharks and Jets

    Downtown's odd relationship with rap bravado continues this fall—now with Muppet costumes

  • Music

    September 11, 2001

    Sound Checks

    Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music

  • News

    October 9, 2001

    Manifest Destiny

    The Return of the Dictators

  • Music

    November 20, 2001

    Music

    The Return of the Dictators

  • Music

    September 24, 2002

    Music

    The Return of the Dictators

  • News

    February 25, 2003

    Disco Inferno

    New York Nightclubs Fend Off Conflagration

  • Music

    October 21, 2003

    CMJ Musicfest 2003

    New York Nightclubs Fend Off Conflagration

  • Music

    May 25, 2004

    Summer Jazz 2004

    New York Nightclubs Fend Off Conflagration

  • Music

    February 8, 2005

    Priced Out

    Live music venues in the Village wobble on their last legs

  • NYC Life

    February 22, 2005

    Noise on Music Central

    From minstrelsy to vaudeville and Monk to punk, never under-estimate urban ugliness

  • NYC Life

    February 22, 2005

    The Last Days of Loserville

    Once home to hustlers, drunks, and bohemians, America's slummiest street has turned into a new millionaire's row

  • News

    March 1, 2005

    Bowery Bummer

    CBGB is facing eviction—but not at the hands of greedy developers

  • Specials

    March 8, 2005

    Letters

    CBGB is facing eviction—but not at the hands of greedy developers

  • Music

    August 30, 2005

    Last Stand at CBGB

    War all the time: Punks and councilmen fight for their landmark

  • Music

    October 4, 2005

    Preservation Scuzz

    Hey hey punky way: How CBGB and New Orleans increase a skeptic's respect for history

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1973

    Hey hey punky way: How CBGB and New Orleans increase a skeptic's respect for history

  • NYC Life

    September 5, 2006

    Downer at the Rock and Roll Club

    As CBGB takes its victory laps, a lifer reminisces about the death of an era

  • News

    September 12, 2006

    Letters

    As CBGB takes its victory laps, a lifer reminisces about the death of an era

  • News

    September 19, 2006

    Letters

    As CBGB takes its victory laps, a lifer reminisces about the death of an era

  • NYC Life

    October 17, 2006

    One Last Howl at the Marquee Moon

    CBGB's death knell is finally real, even if your heartfelt nostalgia isn't

  • Film

    July 31, 2007

    Love Goes To Buildings On Fire

    1977 New York gets the VH1 treatment and, oh my, wasn't it fun back then!

  • News

    August 28, 2007

    Magical Musical Piss House

    CBGB regular Jesse Malin remembers the late Hilly Kristal

  • News

    September 25, 2007

    Letters

    CBGB regular Jesse Malin remembers the late Hilly Kristal

  • Specials

    November 6, 2007

    Letters

    CBGB regular Jesse Malin remembers the late Hilly Kristal

  • Music

    December 3, 2008

    Gleefully Violent Hardcore Nostalgia Reigns at the A7 Reunion

    Old NYC scenesters go back to the shoebox

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    The Personals

    Falling in love for different reasons

  • Music

    October 29, 2002

    CMJ Musicfest 2002

    Falling in love for different reasons

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    The Final CBGB Settlement: Hilly Kristal's Estate Takes Its Last Legal Bow

    "The thing my mother did wrong was trust my father and sister. And that's how she lost everything." photo via joe holmes' photostream Finally, a settlement has been reached in the long and often bitter battle over the estate of former CBGB proprietor Hilly Kristal. At the center of the dispute: wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Week in Review: I've Never Seen So Many Sick Weirdos Gathered in One Place

    Rebecca Smeyne In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    The Vaporous Ghost of CBGB: Now Offering Some Retail Space You May Be Interested In

    ​Did you know that the Bowery is "resurgent"? EV Grieve tracks down the real estate listing for the now vacant Morrison Hotel gallery--in turn, the former site of the CBGB Gallery, back when CBGB still existed--which is now for lease. Evidently the flickering memory of the decrepit old punk cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Week in Review: Pajamas Are Pussified

    Kylie! Photo by Santiago Felipe.​In the week a tiny little boy named Falcon first captured America's heart and then threw up on that heart on live television and even rhymed about doing so in song, we swam feebly in the ocean of headlines involving both Michael Jackson and Paul Anka, DJ AM and ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 5, 2010

    FIRESTOPPERS

    We can still be cynical if it’s for a good cause, right?

  • Voice Choices

    March 16, 2010

    WASTED YOUTH

    Green Day does showtunes

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    The New Museum Celebrates the Demise of CBGB, Rise of John Varvatos

    ​The conversion of CBGB into a fancy boot emporium is ancient news at this point, and as evil or wrongheaded as John Varvatos has often seemed on the Bowery--a sliver of the old wall, behind glass! Guns N' Roses!--putting CBGB out of its misery in 2006 was a mercy killing. It hadn't been good ... More >>

  • Music

    December 9, 2003

    Music

    ​The conversion of CBGB into a fancy boot emporium is ancient news at this point, and as evil or wrongheaded as John Varvatos has often seemed on the Bowery--a sliver of the old wall, behind glass! Guns N' Roses!--putting CBGB out of its misery in 2006 was a mercy killing. It hadn't been good ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Meet Extra Place, the Semi-Secret, "Never Open to the Public" Performance Space Underneath the Old CBGB

    Extra Place​Well, it's not that secret--both The Fader and the CMJ Music Marathon have already made use of Extra Place (we've been there before, too), the new private, "never open to the public" performance space that is located on, wait for it...Extra Place, the blind alley off 1st Street bet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    Q&A: White Zombie's Sean Yseult On The Band's Early Lower East Side Days: "It Was The '80s, And We Hated Everything"

    ​White Zombie had rules. One: no solo albums under their own names. So Sean Yseult -- the bassist in the NYC punk-metal monolith, led by growling frontman Rob Zombie, that slowly evolved from mid-'80s CBGBs punks to the '90s alterna-metal titans of "Thunder Kiss '65" and "More Human Than Human ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    The 10 Best NYC Clubs of All Time

    ​1) Studio 54. The be-all and end-all of '70s glitz and hedonism. A crazy salad populated with the bad and the beautiful. 2) Mudd Club. The anti-54, this divey new wave hangout on a side street in downtown's then-wasteland bred skinny ties, attitude, and sheer brilliance. 3) Area. A gigantic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Two Boots Coughs up a CBGB Slice

    ​Although basil pesto isn't particularly synonymous with punk rock, Two Boots is using it to pay tribute to CBGB.

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2011

    New York Dolls

    ​Although basil pesto isn't particularly synonymous with punk rock, Two Boots is using it to pay tribute to CBGB.

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Iconic Punk Brand CBGB to Be Auctioned to the Highest Bidder

    ​Everything is for sale, people. Everything is for sale. Including the brand of legendary punk rock club CBGB OMFUG, which, FYI, was converted to a John Varvatos store anyway years ago, so who the hell cares about memories and history and shit. No, but really, wouldn't it be super cool to own ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Today's Three Signs That The Concept Of "Punk" Has Reached An Awkward Age

    These riches could be yours. ​ 1. The CBGB brand is up for auction. Not all that surprising a development given the financial woes suffered by the company that used to hold the trademark had. But still a little sad? Especially because of the high odds that Forever 21 or Urban Outfitters wins o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Jimmy Webb, Trash and Vaudeville Buyer, Speaks About the Old Neighborhood

    Esther Zuckerman​Jimmy Webb leads us out of Trash and Vaudeville -- the famed St. Mark's store where he works as buyer and manager -- to a spot across the street. Over the buildings he points to a white wall that has the word "Muerte" written in block letters at its top. That's where there use ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 28, 2011

    VIVA THE VILLAGE!

    Downtown keeps on kickin'

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Does New York City Really Need CBGB To Return?

    Billy V/Flickr​So the big punks-not-dead news, that is actually a rumor, of the past 24 hours comes from a post on Gothamist claiming that the people who have access to a bunch of CBGB's old things (although not the awning) are planning to reopen the iconic punk club "somewhere in Manhattan," ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 1, 2012

    THE UNDERGROUND

    Explore the early works of Amos Poe

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