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NYC walking tours for music nerds - see where your favorite artists lived, performed, rehearsed, and recorded the records you love.
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17/09/2023

Bush Tetras at Tier 3/TR3 (225 West Broadway), 3/20/80. These photos, taken by the venue’s booker Hilary Jaeger , are in my book in black and white (that third one is even on the cover), but this is the first time the first two have been seen in color (online, at least)! Note Lydia Lunch standing in the front row in that first photo, second from right. These are incredible photos of an incredible band; thank you so much Hilary for your generosity in sharing these!

03/09/2023

John Lurie, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bryan Ferry, Julian Schnabel, Jacqueline Beaurang, unidentified, and Paige Powell at a party at Schnabel’s apartment, 1985. Photo by Andy Warhol.

03/09/2023

Tav Falco and Alex Chilton outside the Ritz (Webster Hall), 8/9/80. Photo by Ebet Roberts.

29/08/2023

Velvet Underground guitarist Holmes Sterling Morrison Jr. during the recording sessions for “The Velvet Underground and Nico” at Scepter Studios (54 W 54th St) and “Loaded” at Atlantic Studios (1841 Broadway). He would have turned 81 today. First photo by Steve Schapiro, the rest by Henri Ter Hall.

27/08/2023

Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker turns 79 today. The first two photos are by Stephen Shore, ca 1966/67. The third image is from a local Long Island newspaper, also ca 1966. The fourth is from a rarely seen Warhol film called “Moe in Bondage,” in which Tucker’s bandmates tie her to a chair and then eat fruit. And the final image is because we live in hell.

19/08/2023

John Cale, Mick Ronson, David Byrne, and Patti Smith at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club (121 Chambers St), 7/21/76. Cale plays a free show in Prospect Park tonight (see you there!), Smith opened for the National at MSG last night (should’ve been the other way around but whatever), and Talking Heads reissued the Stop Making Sense soundtrack yesterday (plus Byrne finally fessed up to treating his bandmates like s**t, to People Magazine of all things). Photo by Michael Putland.

06/08/2023

Elliott Smith outside of his apartment (440 Bergen St. in Park Slope), 1998. The final shot was later used as the cover for “From A Basement on a Hill.” Elliott would have turned 54 today. Photos by Renaud Monfourny.

03/08/2023

50 years ago today, the Broadway Central Hotel unexpectedly collapsed, killing four people and injuring several others. With it went the Mercer Arts Center, a theater complex housed in the hotel. In addition to high-profile off-Broadway plays, the Mercer was also a home base for the city’s glam rock/proto-punk scene, with the New York Dolls, Magic Tramps, Jayne County, Su***de, Ruby and the Rednecks, Modern Lovers, and Patti Smith all performing there. It was also home to the first location of the experimental art and music venue the Kitchen, which has luckily relocated to SoHo just a few months prior to the collapse. With the loss of the building, the scene had to rebuild from scratch, leading local bands to seek out new, smaller venues like Club 82, Mothers, and (most notably) CBGB.

26/07/2023

Mick Jagger at Studio 54, 1977. He turns 80 today. Photo by Rose Hartman.

20/07/2023

Larry Levan at Paradise Garage, 1979 (plus his staff ID from 1982). He would have turned 69 today. Photos by Bill Bernstein.

19/07/2023

Bob Dylan, Karen Dalton, and Fred Neil at the Cafe Wha?, 2/6/61. Dalton would have turned 86 today. Photo by Fred W. McDarrah.

14/07/2023

Woody Guthrie, NYC, 1943. He would have turned 101 today. Photos by Eric Schaal/Life Magazine.

13/07/2023

Dany Johnson deejaying at Club 57, early ‘80s. I’m so honored that Dany - who was also a longtime resident deejay at Pyramid Club, the Mudd Club, and Area (among others), and a member of the great band Pulsallama - is spinning tonight at my book release party at Baker Falls (101 Ave A)! It’s doubling as the club’s opening night, and there are multiple links to the contents of the book - the space was previously the longtime home of Pyramid Club (and, before that, the New Rican Village), and it’s now owned by my dude Nick Bodor (formerly of Cake Shop and alt.coffee) along with the folks from the Knitting Factory. Come hang out, say hi, pick up a book, dance, and get a first glimpse of the newest iteration of a legendary space! (There’s a $5 cover just to keep the Ave A bro brigade from coming in and killing the vibe) Photo by Robert Carrithers.

02/07/2023

Lydia Lunch at the Russian Baths (268 E 10th St), 1985. Photo by Nan Goldin.

18/06/2023

Ornette Coleman and his son Denardo in midtown, 1969. Photos by Elliott Landy.

13/06/2023

Patti Smith and Lizzy Mercier Descloux photographed in Patti’s apartment at One 5th Ave by Mercier’s partner, ZE Records co-founder Michel Esteban, 1977.

31/01/2023

Woody Guthrie, Lily Mae Ledford, and Alan Lomax at a party in Greenwich Village, 1944. Lomax would have turned 108 today. Photographer unknown.

31/01/2023

Philip Glass, who turns 86 today, performing in his loft at 10 Bleecker St in the early ‘70s. Photo by Randall LeBry.

27/01/2023

Judas Priest singer Rob Halford and Andy Warhol in the Mudd Club bathroom, 3/11/79. Photo by Steve Joester.

22/01/2023

Jim Jarmusch (who turns 70 today) and Tom Waits in Tompkins Square Park, 1985. Photos by Deborah Feingold.

18/01/2023

Frankie Knuckles (née Nicholls), Harmony (Boogie Down Productions), and David Cole (C&C Music Factory) at a party at Tribeca Grill, 9/10/91. Frankie would have turned 68 today. Photo by Al Pereira.

17/01/2023

The dBs’ Chris Stamey at the Ray’s Pizza at 465 6th Ave (RIP), 1977. Photo by Stephanie Chernikowski.

17/01/2023

Andrew WK outside his Greenpoint apartment (looks like 65 Greene St?) where much of “I Get Wet” was recorded, early 2000s. Photo by Leeta Harding.

16/01/2023

Keith Haring-designed invitation to a 1988 MLK Day party at the Palladium, with deejays Larry Levan and Jellybean Benitez and a crazy stacked performer lineup (Gwen Guthrie; Joyce Sims; CeCe Rogers; 2 Puerto Ricans, a Black Man, and a Dominican; etc etc etc).

03/12/2022

Donald Byrd on the A train, 1959. Photo by William Claxton.

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