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From Hesher to Hardcore: Lewis Dimmick on His New Book This Music

In the early 80's, the phenomenon known as Hardcore Punk whipped through the U.S. like the pissed off, privileged child that it was. By the mid '80s though, most of the bands who coined the sound and term were either donning black and weeping or doing bad AC/DC impressions. There were also those who ... More >>

First Look: CBGB Movie Poster Is Your Worst Fear Realized

If you're the type of cynical punk asshole who thinks the movie about CBGB can't be anything but terrible, well GOOD NEWS, the movie's poster essentially proves you right. It was released today on the CBGB movie Facebook page, which has exclusive clips that also prove you right. Still, you'd be wise ... More >>

Two Man Advantage Bring Hardcore Punk Back to Sunday Afternoons in the Bowery

Once upon a time, Sunday afternoons in the Bowery would come alive with the sounds of the hardest of hardcore bands as part of CBGB's matinee series. While it's been close to a decade since the venue closed its doors, hardcore punk returns to Sunday afternoons this weekend with a killer line-up at T ... More >>

Announcing the 2013 CBGB Festival

After its initial success this past summer, CBGB Festival will return to New York City next spring from May 15 to 19. The 2012 version was so much fun that it plans to do the only logical thing: Expand. See Also: - Live: Mamma Mia! Superchunk Bring The Heat To Times Square - Live: Guided By Voices ... More >>

Photos: CBGB And The Old Bowery Live On... In Savannah, Georgia

Today is the beginning of the CBGB Festival, a series of shows, panel discussions, and movie screenings that will stretch on into the weekend. The festival just so happens to coincide with the filming of a movie about the storied Bowery rock haven starring Alan Rickman as CBGB impresario Hilly Krist ... More >>

QUARANTINE THE PAST

Guided by Voices play Central Park 
in tribute to an East Village landmark

CBGB Reborn, Sort Of: Here Is A Picture Of Its Georgia Stand-In

Next week, the CBGB Festival will take over a bunch of clubs around New York City in an effort to honor the legacy of the onetime Bowery staple, but right now in Savannah, Georgia, a movie about the club's history is being filmed. Starring Alan Rickman as CBGB impresario Hilly Krystal and his Harry ... More >>

Sick Of It All (16) Battles Talking Heads (8) As SOTC's March Madness Takes A Trip To CBGB

​Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here. Two CBGB staples from two different scenes, Talking Heads and Sick Of It All get in the Round of 32's pit as we try to det ... More >>

CBGB Festival To Debut This July

The rumor earlier this year that CBGB, the storied Bowery punk club shuttered a few years back in order to make room for a store hawking overpriced menswear and vinyl, would be returning to the city in some form has apparently come closer to actually becoming true. Bryan Kuntz over at This Ain't The ... More >>

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 >>

LONG LIVE CBGB

A look back at the last days of the historic club

VIVA THE VILLAGE!

Downtown keeps on kickin'

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 >>

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 >>

New York Dolls

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.

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 >>

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 >>

WASTED YOUTH

Green Day does showtunes

FIRESTOPPERS

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Letters

Letters

Magical Musical Piss House

CBGB regular Jesse Malin remembers the late Hilly Kristal

Love Goes To Buildings On Fire

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

One Last Howl at the Marquee Moon

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

Letters

Letters

Downer at the Rock and Roll Club

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

Hip-Hop's New No Wave

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

The Personals

Falling in love for different reasons

1966–1975 Peace & Protest

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

Preservation Scuzz

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

Last Stand at CBGB

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

Letters

Bowery Bummer

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

Noise on Music Central

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

The Last Days of Loserville

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

Priced Out

Live music venues in the Village wobble on their last legs

Summer Jazz 2004

CMJ Musicfest 2003

Disco Inferno

New York Nightclubs Fend Off Conflagration

CMJ Musicfest 2002

Music

Music

Manifest Destiny

The Return of the Dictators

Sound Checks

Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music

Bowery Mission