Tagged: furtherabusingthetermpunk

New signage up at Thistle Hill, the much anticipated bar and restaurant from NOFX's Fat Mike and a consortium of others, including 'inoteca's David Massoni and Niagara Bar's John Bush. When last w... Continue reading "Thistle Hill, the New Restaurant From NOFX's Fat Mike, Says Hello to Park Slope" >

Take that, CBGB! Were you booking shows with Axl Rose and his rental band back before John Varvatos graced you with some leather jackets and used audio equipment? No you were not. Fashion week ... Continue reading "OK, So Guns N' Roses Played the John Varvatos Store on the Bowery Last Night" >

Please welcome the Thistle Hill Tavern, serving "new American cuisine in a comfortable, laidback setting"--namely, on the corner of 15th Street and Seventh Avenue, in the space Olive Vine used to ... Continue reading "NOFX's Fat Mike Is Opening A Restaurant In Park Slope" >

In November, our Fork in the Road sister blog reported on the what was to be the fate of the old Downtown Music Gallery space, which owner Bruce Gallanter vacated after the absurd Bowery rent got... Continue reading "Merry Christmas, Your Record Store Is Now A Subway Restaurant" >

On December 8th, former Velvets Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, and Doug Yule will find themselves sitting in the same room at the New York Public Library as part of an event promoting The Velvet Underg... Continue reading "The Velvet Underground Reunion That Probably Won't Happen But Still (!)" >

Henry Rollins files from Jakarta for Vanity Fair: "At one point, I met a young couple who recognized me and we stopped to talk. Around that time, a female vendor walked up to us wearing a most int... Continue reading "Henry Rollins Meets a Woman in a Black Flag Shirt Who Doesn't Know Who Black Flag Is" >

For as harsh as 2009 has been for celebrity deaths, it's been an even harsher year for Internet-based fake celebrity deaths. As of June, the real-to-fake death ratio has approached one-to-two: Mi... Continue reading "The Great Chuck Biscuits Death Hoax of Aught Nine" >

Did you know that the Bowery is "resurgent"? EV Grieve tracks down the real estate listing for the now vacant Morrison Hotel gallery--in turn, the former site of the CBGB Gallery, back when CBGB ... Continue reading "The Vaporous Ghost of CBGB: Now Offering Some Retail Space You May Be Interested In" >

Tony Brummel, the iTunes/Ne-Yo-despising bete noir of DIY hardcore since time immemorial, appears to have crossed yet another line. Gerard Cosloy, whose Austin home burned to the ground compl... Continue reading "In Honor of Matador's Gerard Cosloy, A Fuck Victory Records Playlist " >

via bumpershine's photostreamOK, fine, this kid rules Last year, when the Boredoms announced 88BoaDrum--the lame, limp sequel to 2007's 77 minutes, 77 drummers, on 07/07/07 blowout, 77BoaDrum--we una... Continue reading "Dear Boredoms: Quit With the Fucking Gimmicks, OK?" >

"The thing my mother did wrong was trust my father and sister. And that's how she lost everything." photo via joe holmes' photostream Finally, a settlement has been reached in the long and often bit... Continue reading "The Final CBGB Settlement: Hilly Kristal's Estate Takes Its Last Legal Bow" >

New York magazine is good for one absolutely maddening piece about music every month or so, whether it be the much reviled "Jukebox" feature, once described in this space as "a shame, and a perpetuall... Continue reading "On the Long, Numbingly Repetitive Ancestry of New York's "Let There Be Doom" Sunn0))) Review" >

Jeff Nelson, the drummer for Minor Threat and co-founder, with Ian MacKaye, of Dischord records, is offloading some junk, apparently. To wit, an "Absolutely MINT condition copy of 1st pressing of Mino... Continue reading "Jeff Nelson's Own Personal First Minor Threat EP: Pay No More Than $1,125.00" >

Having never been personally served with a cease-and-desist order (we stick to misdemeanors, mostly), we can't pretend to know what the appropriate response to one might be. But a hunch tells us tha... Continue reading "The Teenage Cool Kids Scorn Lawyers, Attempt to Challenge the Cool Kids to Veggie Dog Eating Contest, Tempt Fate, Patience" >

Yikes. Attention emo enthusiasts/Gwen Stefani devotees/Jon Caramanica: Bamboozle, the annual Pop-Rock Parking Lot extravaganza with the inexplicably terrible logo, has announced this year's extravag... Continue reading "Fall Out Boy, No Doubt Headline Bamboozle 2009" >

Given that, pace Obama, we're already in a rearguard fight against the insanely ubiquitous culture of our elders--the Rolling Stones, marijuana, VW buses--it's more than a bit demoralizing to see ou... Continue reading "Bad Brains to Be Embalmed Once More On Film" >

Alan G. Parker's Who Killed Nancy? Sid Vicious/Nancy Pungen murder post-op doc has a trailer. Best part so far is a disembodied voice saying "It was Rockets Redglare!," which, from an intoxicant per... Continue reading "Sid Was Innocent, Man" >

Jersey hardcore punks Lifetime had an immortal run in the mid/late '90s; their template, as much or more as anyone else's, was the final late-stage emo adaptation that set the table for the dudes wh... Continue reading "Lifetime Throw Off Pete Wentz's Shackles" >

The grieving over CBGB--a rock club that probably went fifteen years without a worthwhile booking, before turning on the nostalgia waterworks in 2006 and wrapping things up with Sonic Youth et al--h... Continue reading "Kill Worthless Punk Nostalgia: 'Punk Shrine' CBGB " >

While this Jim Jones remix of MGMT's "Electric Feel" basically makes no sense, keep in mind that both acts are on Columbia and . . . forget it. I have no idea what to even say about something like t... Continue reading "MGMT/Jim Jones "Electric Feel (Remix)"" >