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

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Weird news travels fast

I was gonna save these links for the intro to my next post on ads, but I may as well round them up here, in reverse order of how I found out about them.

Bleecker Bob's to become a Starbucks--via JVNY and GV Daily Photo. Thanks to Caryn Rose for the head's up. [UPDATE, mere seconds after my inital post--the Holiday is closing too!] [UPDATE 1/27/2012: Yesterday there was a NY Times article on this as well, which also stated that Southpaw is closing. Today JVNY reports that BB's is looking for space in the East Village.]

CBGB festival and talk of a possible revival of the club--via Bowery Boogie, Gothamist, EV Grieve, WCBS-FM, Brooklyn Vegan, and the Observer. Thanks for Bryan at This Ain't the Summer of Love for the alert.

The Court Tavern in New Brunswick to close--via the Village Voice blog.

Not news but interesting stuff from before my time--FB page for after-hours club the Nursery. Thanks to NY Rocks head honcho Ray S.

And hopefully this might cheer you up a little, or at least offer some useful distraction--go get lost within this massive NYU archive of Greenwich Village photos (link via Flaming Pablum).

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Love au Go Go

If you've noticed my by-line, you've probably understood its dual nature--my initials are indeed D.C., and I do dig Love big time. (I neither condone nor engage in the Conka-esque habits alluded to in the song, however.) So I was pleased to get an e-mail today from Bruno Ceriotti, author of a new Love chronology in e-book form entitled My Little Red Book: Love Day-By-Day 1945-1971. As a fan of both Love and rock chronology books in general, I'll be buying a download of it post-haste.

Via.

Bruno also hipped me to a new documentary film he helped work on which is currently making the film fest rounds. How I missed hearing about this movie before receiving Bruno's note mystifies me...I'm having vague semi-recollections of possibly reading about it and taking note of it a while ago, but if I actually did, the momentousness of the info didn't sink in at the time. Anyway, I'm on it now, and I really hope it gets screened at Hot Docs or NXNE next year. It's called Seven Years Underground: A '60s Tale. The subject is the Cafe au Go Go, and it was made with major input from Howard Solomon's family. Please peruse their official website and enjoy the tantalizing excerpts from the film on their Youtube channel. [And here are more Cafe au Go Go Youtube clips.]

Speaking of docs and books...I wonder how Sid Bernstein Presents is coming along. And I want to thank Caryn Rose for sending me a copy of her fine new novel, B-Sides and Broken Hearts. I'm currently about 2/3 of the way through it, and it's a bi-coastal rock and roll romance of the highest order. The story is set mostly in Seattle and L.A., but has a heaping helping of NYC/Jersey flavor too. With all the Sonic Youth and heartbreak embedded in its pages, it just might be the perfect read for our new post-KimandThurston world.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Stand Clear

This just in from Stupefaction: the announcement of a new series of compilations on New York City music, spanning the '40s to the aughts, entitled Watch the Closing Doors: A History of New York's Musical Melting Pot. Can't wait to hear them, though I personally feel they should've gone with "Standclearo'theclosin'doorsplease."

I also just got a fine link from Steve Coleman, administrator of the Fleshtones Hall of Fame--a BBC Radio 2 documentary on the musical history of Greenwich Village, narrated by John Sebastian. Here's part one, which aired last night and which I'm listening to as I type this. Part two airs today, and presumably that stream will be available here for about a week afterwards.

Lastly, I can't resist sharing these two scans from Flip magazine, which I received moments ago on my FB news feed from longtime fellow Bomper Michael Lynch. How come I never heard about Jeff Conaway's NYC garage rock roots until his unfortunate demise?

EDIT 5/31/2011: Another pertinent link from this morning--a Dangerous Minds post on ZE Records.

EDIT again on 5/31/2011: Later today DM also did a post on a BBC doc called Once Upon a Time in New York, which I've been meaning to watch for a while now.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Positively Oblivious to 50th Street

Remember that Cafe Wha? video I posted a couple days ago? Turns out it's part of a series of articles and other stuff the Village Voice has been publishing lately in honor of the golden anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in NYC. The Voice used to be part of my regular weekly site-trolling, but with so much other internet stuff to read (and infinitely more of it proliferating EVERY DAY) I fell out of the VV habit. I got the skinny about it from Dangerous Minds, but you can see more articles directly at the Voice site.

UPDATE: All four "Dylan in New York" vids in one 13-minute chunk:

And via the comments section on one of the Voice vids, I found the YT channel of a certain Dylanologist who once worked at the Cafe Wha?: