The Ramones and CBGB. Has there ever been a better match of artist and venue? Okay, the Beatles had the Cavern Club and James Brown had the Apollo Theater. But both of those equally legendary musical ...

The film will focus on the late club's owner, Hilly Kristal, and cover the years 1974-76, when it became a haven for the Ramones, Talking Heads and Patti Smith. By Phil Gallo The birth of punk rock in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There have been many venues that provided homes for crops of acts in certain periods that turned out to have pivotal place in ...

Just one month after the Ramones first played CBGB in the summer of 1974, some wise soul had the foresight to bring in a camera into the seedy bar and capture three songs that they blazed through in ...

Taking care of business. Hilly Kristal, as depicted on the cover of ‘CBGB - A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986,’ outside the venue he ran Central to what he covered in this remarkable role call was ...

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 shows in ...

IT’S time to say gabba gabba goodbye to CBGB. The seedy Bowery club, which opened more than 30 years ago, will shut its doors forever after a performance tomorrow by Patti Smith, who was part of the ...

Hilly Kristal, a trained violinist, opened CBGB music club in 1973 in NYC's East Village with the intention to book country and bluegrass music bands. The full name of the club was CBGB & OMFUG, which ...