 The entrance to CBGB, c. 2005 | |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
|---|---|
| Owner | Hilly Kristal |
| Capacity | 350[1] |
| Opened | December 10, 1973 |
| Closed | October 15, 2006 |
| Website | |
| www | |
CBGB | |
| Location | 315 Bowery Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 40°43′31″N 73°59′31″W / 40.72528°N 73.99194°W |
| Built | 1878 |
| Part of | The Bowery Historic District (ID13000027) |
| Added to NRHP | February 20, 2013 |
CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in the East Village in Manhattan, New York City. The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a dive bar.[2] The letters CBGB were for Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Kristal's original vision for the club. But CBGB soon emerged as a famed and iconic venue for punk rock and new wave bands, including Ramones, Dead Boys, Television, Patti Smith Group, Blondie, Madonna and Talking Heads.
Other bands affiliated with CBGB included Agnostic Front, Murphy's Law, U.S. Chaos, Cro-Mags, Warzone, Gorilla Biscuits, Sick of It All, and Youth of Today.
One storefront beside CBGB became the "CBGB Record Canteen", a record shop and café. In the late 1980s, "CBGB Record Canteen" was converted into an art gallery and second performance space, "CB's 313 Gallery". CB's Gallery was played by music artists of milder sounds, such as acoustic rock, folk, jazz, or experimental music, such as Dadadah, Kristeen Young, Medeski Martin & Wood and Toshi Reagon, while CBGB continued to showcase mainly hardcore punk, post punk, metal, and alternative rock.
313 Gallery was also the host location for Alchemy, a weekly Goth night showcasing goth, industrial, dark rock, and darkwave bands.[3][4] On the other side, CBGB was operating a small cafe and bar in the mid-1990s, which served classic New York pizza, among other items.[5][6]
Around 2000, CBGB entered a protracted dispute over allegedly unpaid rent amounts until the landlord, Bowery Residents' Committee, sued in 2005 and lost the case. Kristal and the BRC reached an agreement whereby CBGB would leave by October 31, 2006.[7]
On October 15, 2006, the club closed with a performance by Patti Smith, who took the stage at 9:30 p.m. and played for 3 1/2 hours until slightly after 1 a.m. on October 16, 2006, closing with her song "Elegie" followed by reading a list of punk rock musicians and advocates who had died in recent years.[8]
CBGB Radio launched on the iHeartRadio platform in 2010, and CBGB music festivals began in 2012.[9] In 2013, CBGB's onetime building, 315 Bowery, was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of The Bowery Historic District (not a New York City Historic District).[10]
- ^ Kokenes, Chris. "CBGB sounds its final note". CNN. Archived from the original on October 5, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
- ^ Bryan Waterman (2011). Television's Marquee Moon. US: The Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-1-44114-5-291.
- ^ "Alchemy". www.nycgoth.com. Archived from the original on July 20, 2018. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
- ^ Jason, D. J. (September 9, 1996). "Alchemy Gothic Mondays". Archived from the original on January 28, 2023. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
- ^ "Playing in the neighborhood". The New York Times. December 19, 1993. Archived from the original on April 29, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
- ^ "Pop And jazz guide". The New York Times. January 24, 2003. Archived from the original on April 29, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
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- ^ Marcus Gilmer (May 8, 2012). "CBGB now a festival, could reopen in new location". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
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