Just a few of the most exciting headliners on the bill include O.G. punk Iggy Pop, recent Rock Hall of Fame inductee Jack White, seminal anarchists Sex Pistols, The Smiths’ Johnny Marr and legendary ...

Iconic artist Patti Smith made a mark 50 years ago with her iconic first album, Horses, which mixed punk, poetry and ...

On Oct. 15, 2006, Patti Smith played the final concert as the club closed for good. The Dead Boys perform at CBGB circa 1976. (L-R) Jimmy Zero, Stiv Bators, Johnny Blitz (drums) and Cheetah Chrome.

Aaron/Redferns/Getty Images Photographer Bob Gruen — who shot everyone from the Ramones to Patti Smith on the club’s closing night on Oct 15, 2006 — said that, in its boom years, CBGB ...

Then, 1975 saw the Patti Smith Group’s debut, and Legs McNeil’s seminal magazine Punk codified the term “punk rock.” CBGB was suddenly the epicenter of the downtown music scene ...

But a new one was about to provide them with just that: CBGB. Getty Images Patti Smith and her band "figured out" their iconic debut album Horses while playing two sets every night at CBGB (Credit ...

You awake yet? That was the Patti Smith Group, Television, Talking Heads, Blondie and the Ramones - just a few of the bands that honed their sounds at CBGB. Capacity? Just 350 lucky people.

CBGB closed up shop for good on Oct. 15, 2006, after an epic show by alumna Patti Smith. The storefront then became a John Varvatos store, with the storied awning packed up and sent to the Rock ...

Patti Smith never planned to front a rock band ... partly honed during live performances at the soon-to-be punk mecca CBGB, and that would become the signature sound of the late 1970s scene.

The hallowed venue CBGB, for which the fest takes its name, was known for booking iconic musicians like the Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Television, and many more before they ...

New York City’s legendary punk and new wave venue CBGB closed. In the nearly 20 years since, nothing in the City has quite replaced the iconic performance space where Patti Smith, Talking Heads ...