New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. Never mind the Bollocks, here’s the CBGB Festival‘s 2026 lineup. The recently-revived punk fest — the first edition went down last year — just announced all the anti-authoritarian household names they’re … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Up the punx. On Saturday, Sept. 27, hardcore and punk fans of all ages gathered in Brooklyn for the 2025 CBGB Music … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. On Oct. 15, 2006, New York City’s legendary punk and new wave venue CBGB closed. In the nearly 20 years since, nothing … Read more
Skid Row has checked out. Down-and-dirty punk music staple CBGB is now designer John Varvatos’ retail space. Dark and dank Mars Bar has been replaced by a TD Bank. And after years of extensive renovation, the scaffolding has finally come down at 338 Bowery, where the last flophouse on the once-notorious strip — the former … Read more
The Ramones’ weird legend is growing 50 years after it accidentally sparked a punk-rock revolution – even though all of the New York City band’s founding members are long dead. The odd-looking foursome made the unusual pop-culture journey from misfit outsiders with little commercial success to one of a handful of bands with a case … Read more
The once-gritty Lower East Side has grown trendy in the 50 years since the punk movement was born – but don’t tell residents the neighborhood has lost its rebellious edge. Some locals are tired of hearing about how rents have soared and about how the iconic CBGB’s – where bands like Talking Heads and Blondie … Read more
True to the raw, anarchic spirit of punk-rock, the Ramones played as dirty as those notoriously filthy CBGB bathrooms when they got a spontaneous offer from their first manager at the holy underground in New York’s East Village in 1975. “They wanted to be in my column in the SoHo Weekly News. And I kept … Read more
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 club that started a music moment five decades ago. In fact, the all-female act made themselves so at home at the East Village institution that they once … Read more