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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Adam Yauch (August 5, 1964 - May 4, 2012) (📷: Jake Chessum)

Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Fuck the Clock: Patti at the Palladium (126 E. 14th St.), December 31, 1976. Special guests included John Cale, Dee Dee Ramone, Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine (📷: Allan Tannenbaum)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

👑 Happy Birthday, Patti Smith! 👑 (📷: Charlyn Zlotnik)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

🎅🏼 Life During Christmastime 🎅🏼 h/t: Chris Frantz

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Hey, NYC: How are you beating the heat this week? (📷: Chris Stein)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Happy Birthday, Laurie Anderson! (📷: Lynn Goldsmith)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy 7th Birthday to the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City by Mike Katz and Crispin Kott (foreword by Legs McNeil), released on June 1, 2018 and still available everywhere books are sold at maximum volume.

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Patti Smith Group Waves High. The Patti Smith Group played the Palladium (126 E. 14th St.) on May 22 & 23, 1979

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Gail and Frank Zappa walk along Bleecker Street on May 20, 1967. The Mothers of Invention played a gig at the Village Gate (160 Bleecker St.) that night. Four days later the group would begin a months-long residency at the Garrick Theatre (152 Bleecker St.). (📷: Fred W. McDarrah)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Happy Birthday, Stevie Wonder! (📷: Winston Vargas at the Apollo Theater, circa 1970)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Richard Ashcroft takes Manhattan during a photo shoot for the Verve’s “Lucky Man” sleeve art, 1997 (📷: Chris Floyd)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The Jimi Hendrix Experience played two shows at the Fillmore East (105 2nd Ave.) on May 10, 1968. Sly & the Family Stone opened, and lights were provided by Joshua Light Show. (🎨: David Byrd)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🥁 Happy Birthday, Chris Frantz! 🥁 (📷: Tom Hill)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

“Index,” a single-sided cardboard flexi-disc included in Andy Warhol’s Index, a book and multimedia package published by Black Star Books in 1967. The flexi features a portrait of the Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed by Billy Name.

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Ramones played “in showcase” at Performance Studios (23 E. 20th St.) with support from Blondie on April 25, 1975. Drummer Clem Burke had played his first gig with Blondie just weeks earlier.

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

“The Ramones are gonna smash you to smithereens…” Ramones released their eponymous debut album on April 23, 1976.

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Richard Hell & the Voidoids opened a three-night stand at CBGB on April 20, 1978

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Early adventures in concert etiquette at the Fillmore East

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The Who at the Carl Schurz Monument at 116th Street and Morningside Drive (📷: Art Kane)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"It ain't my fault It's six o'clock in the morning" He said As he came up out of the night Joe Strummer, NYC, 1981 (📷: Allan Tannenbaum)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

“Tonight, y’see, is Patti Smith and Television, two of the most droppable names on the New York rock circuit.” - Charles Shaar Murray, NME Patti Smith and Television began a three-night stand at CBGB (315 Bowery) on March 27, 1975.

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Bob Dylan at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium on August 28, 1965 (📷: Daniel Kramer)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The Temptations at the Apollo (253 W. 125th St.) (📷: Don Paulsen)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

New Order backstage at Paradise Garage (84 King St.), July 7, 1983 (📷: Kevin Cummins)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Happy Birthday, John Cale! Cale is seen here alongside Mick Ronson, David Byrne and Patti Smith at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club (121 Chambers St.), opened by Max's Kansas City founder Mickey Ruskin. (📷: Lynn Goldsmith)

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Debbie Harry helps the Frog Scouts earn their punk merit badge on a 1981 episode of the Muppet Show

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The New York Dolls played The Little Hippodrome (227 E. 56th St.), a drag club and discotheque, from February 28-March 2, 1975, at the behest of their new manager, Malcolm McLaren. They were held over the following weekend, with support from Television.

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Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City @rrexplorernyc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🎸🎸 Happy Cramps Birthday to the late, great Gregory Beckerleg, a.k.a., Bryan Gregory; and Kristy Marlana Wallace, a.k.a., Poison Ivy Rorschach! 🎸🎸 (📷: unknown)

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