Big names try to save the Bowery's punk music landmark
My brother Patrick's band The Silence Kit will be playing CBGB's next thursday as part of the benefit to try and keep the legendary club's doors open.
After 31 years at 315 Bowery, CBGB -- considered the breeding ground of punk rock and new wave, with early-'70s gigs by the Ramones leading to Television, Blondie, Talking Heads and the U.S. debut of the Police -- is in the last month of its lease. Renewal negotiations have been the subject of a complicated, much-publicized dispute between Kristal and the club's landlord, the Bowery Residents Community, a non-profit organization that aids the homeless.
Read about it here...
After 31 years at 315 Bowery, CBGB -- considered the breeding ground of punk rock and new wave, with early-'70s gigs by the Ramones leading to Television, Blondie, Talking Heads and the U.S. debut of the Police -- is in the last month of its lease. Renewal negotiations have been the subject of a complicated, much-publicized dispute between Kristal and the club's landlord, the Bowery Residents Community, a non-profit organization that aids the homeless.
Read about it here...
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