Category Archives: punk

MAY 27, 1978 THE VILLAGE JOURNAL ENTRY

October 10, 2023 – 8:10 am

An incredible quadruple Gemini birthday party at Kim and Kyle Davis’ apartment on Bleecker Street. Sean Hausman, Eric Goode, and Kim had hung blue and white balloons overhead. They plastered xeroxed fotos of the four natal celebrants on the wall and illuminated the living room with a modulating blue lights. Punk and funk music. Beer […]

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FIGHTING FOR WHAT by Peter Nolan Smith

April 1, 2023 – 11:37 am

Everything happened quick in CBGB’s subterranean toilets. The release of body waste was rivaled by magic-markering a band’s name atop the thousands of previous honorees in the toilet’s hall of fame and while the inhalation of cocaine or heroin in the stalls was more popular than shooting up dope or speedballs, sex within the battered […]

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Tom Verlaine RIP

January 29, 2023 – 1:23 pm

In the summer of 1978 Television played two shows at the the Bottom Line. MARQUEE MOON had been the best LP of 1977 for us at CBGBs. The first one I missed, because I was working uptown at Hurrah. For the second at the end of July I took off the night and left my […]

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HALLOWEEN / Dead Kennedys

October 31, 2022 – 7:01 am
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GOD SAVE THE QUEEN by the Sex Pistols

June 5, 2022 – 3:37 am

” Queen Elizabeth II was honored by a Silver Jubilee in 1977. While most of the English were glad to celebrate their sovereign’s 25th year on the throne, the country was in a terrible state with the war in Occupied Ireland and unemployment on the dole was the destiny of the young. it was not […]

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