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Fifty years ago this month, three clean-cut art-school students who called themselves Talking Heads played an audition night ...
The legendary rock band celebrates its 50th anniversary with a new video for their 1977 hit, featuring acclaimed actress ...
The video was released in honor of the first time the band played the hit live, which was just over 50 years ago.
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 ...
Fifty years ago, the Talking Heads performed for the first time, opening for the Ramones at CBGB. They'd go on to become one ...
After pent-up anticipation regarding the nature of the Talking Heads’ June 5 announcement, the band has unveiled the catalyst ...
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 ...
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.
CBGB—the iconic East Village music club that helped kickstart the careers of many notable punk rock and new wave bands, including Ramones, Blondie, Television, Talking Heads, Dead Boys and Patti ...
Some bands are so far ahead of their time that commercial success eludes them, but their influence far outweighs their record ...
By Gil Kaufman It’s been nearly two decades since the shuttering of beloved New York punk bar CBGB & OMFUG ... The one-day event will feature 21 bands on three stages including a headlining ...