It wasn’t a happening club.” Still, for fledgling bands looking for anywhere to perform, CBGB offered opportunity. Originally conceptualized as a country and bluegrass club – the full name ...

Stephanie Chernikowski/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images In the mid to late ’70s, the B-Girls were just one of the many bands that found their punk people at CBGB — the iconic New York rock ...

Although word about the new venue quickly spread around a small number of bands who were looking for somewhere to play, it remained a self-contained world for a period. "CBGB was a secret for ...

When Mercer Arts Center closed, the bands needed somewhere to go. They found their new venue in Lower Manhattan: CBGB. Kristal begrudgingly relented on his idea for a country bar and let the bands in.

Subsequent debut album Marquee Moon is probably the greatest from all the CBGB bands. Hell was in some ways the instigator of the CBGB scene or at least its attitude in bridging art with punk ...

Just a few of the most exciting headliners on the bill include O.G. punk Iggy Pop, recent Rock Hall of Fame inductee Jack White, seminal anarchists Sex Pistols, The Smiths’ Johnny Marr and legendary ...

“Hilly was a loose guy that let the bands play, even if he didn't like them,” Roberta Bayley, who worked the front door at CBGB and dated Television’s frontman Richard Hell, says.

Some bands are so far ahead of their time that commercial success eludes them, but their influence far outweighs their record ...

Depending on the sharpness of your mind’s eye, you might even see the leather and curled lips of the bands and punters flowing into the fabled CBGB club that stood on this spot in the late ’70s.