IT'S ALL THE STREETS YOU CROSSED NOT SO LONG AGO

In a feeble attempt to combat my constant homesickness, I compile tales of New York City rock & roll landmarks, most of 'em long gone. Moronic musings on various other enthusiasms are also thrown in for good measure.

Monday, January 02, 2006

Crown of (my) Creation

Just as I'm in the process of severing my final ties to my hometown (selling off the family home and all), forgotten-ny.com pulls out a...

Saturday, December 31, 2005

From L.A. to N.Y., from N.Y. to L.A.

The current issue of L.A. Weekly features an excellent cover story on East Side '50s & '60s Chicano rock & roll. Obviously...

Saturday, December 17, 2005

Hours of enjoyable edification

Via the Daily News ' Big Town Songbook archive .

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Read 'em while you can

Enjoy these two semi-pertinent (though not rock & roll-ish) articles in today's New York Times before they get consigned to the pai...

Friday, December 02, 2005

You can't keep a good Brooklyn band down

My dear Pops unexpectedly departed a couple of weeks ago, and I've been up to my ears in the emotional and economic fall-out ever since....

Friday, November 18, 2005

Side trip to Sh*tty Gardens

Thanks for the link , Fuzzco.

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Unga-wah!

UNGANO'S --210 West 70th Street, between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. Haven't been able to find much background info about this l...

Rockin' the Para--uh, mount, toniiiiiite!

I can trace my fondness for old theaters back to two habits of my misspent youth--special-treat Saturday matinees at the RKO Keith's i...

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Anachronistic minds think alike

Every once in a while a rock journalist shares my sentiments exactly--as in this excerpt from last week's (November 11-17) " Rock ...

Friday, November 04, 2005

The Bow-Ties that Bond

BOND INTERNATIONAL CASINO --1530 Broadway, on the east side of Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets. (Often referred to as Bond's.) A ...

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Mind-melding Magoo Madness

Dig this Blues Magoos article from the Lama Workshop website. It features a couple of super-cool vintage interview scans--one from the Apr...

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

From the Hip

LITTLE HIPPODROME --227 E. 56th Street, between 2nd & 3rd Avenues. This dinner theater / cabaret type of place is most notable as th...

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Midnight ravers

MIDNIGHT RECORDS --263 W. 23rd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues (also occupied the adjacent storefront at 255). Though many in the record ...

Hey Johnny, hey Dee Dee, Little Tom and Joey

PERFORMANCE STUDIOS --23 E. 20th Street, between Broadway and Park Avenue South. At this rehearsal/recording studio-cum-punk rock laboratory...

All the news that's fit to use as T.P.

You know the world's gone wacko when a nostalgic tribute to the bathrooms at CBGB gets printed in the paper of record! Here's an ex...

Monday, October 03, 2005

Mother's ilk

MOTHER'S --267 W. 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. A gay bar that briefly served as an early punk club in the mid-'7...

Friday, September 30, 2005

Fame, set and match

Our next site got a prominent mention in No Direction Home on PBS earlier this week. How timely--since I've been in Queens mode over th...

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