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Byrne says Reed wanted to sign Talking Heads to a management-production deal but they backed out because they thought they ...
Kristal will transplant its store, CBGB Fashions, to a new location a few blocks away on Nov. 1. "I'm thinking about tomorrow and the next day and the next day, and going on to do more with CBGB's ...
As Target states, the CBGB iconography was just a one-day event, and it has since been taken down. Fans expressed similar outrage in 2015 when it was announced that a CBGB restaurant would be ...
Patti Smith first emerged from the blossoming punk scene of New York back in the 1970s, but she didn't heap much praise onto ...
All the old stories you’ve heard about CBGB are true. No, not just the ones about how the Ramones played a legendary 12-minute set in 1974, or how the Police ripped it up with their debut US ...
When CBGB opened, the upstairs was a flophouse. In a sign of changing times, it was now a homeless shelter, run by the BRC – whose only commercial tenant was the famous punk club.
CBGB owner Hilly Kristal rents the space from the nonprofit Bowery Residents Committee, which houses down-and-outers in the building’s upper floors.
New York bar owner Hilly Kristal opened CBGB in December 1973 at 315 Bowery in Manhattan, the site of his former establishment, Hilly’s on the Bowery. Before that, Kristal had put most of his ...
Alan Rickman plays the founder of CBGB, who during the late 1970s wanted to create a venue for country, bluegrass and blues music. When those acts became difficult to book, he shifted the club's ...
The “CBGB” doesn’t have a release date, with this perhaps as an early thermometer for its filmmakers. It’ll take a lot more than this to work up a sweat.
Rock poet Patti Smith headlined the Sunday night concert, CBGB's last before eviction by its landlord, the Bowery Residents Committee, a homeless advocacy group that owns the property. The club will ...