NoHo
1 music artist that Wikipedia ties to NoHo. A tie, not always an origin
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Music spots
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Venue
Five Spot Café
1956–1962The jazz club’s first home, on Cooper Square from 1956 to 1962. Cecil Taylor’s band played the club’s first official engagement, and on 18 July 1957 Thelonious Monk’s quartet, with John Coltrane, began a six-month residency, Monk’s first New York engagement after a long suspension of his cabaret card. The building was demolished in 1962, per Wikipedia.
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CBGB
1974On 16 August 1974 the Ramones (Dee Dee, Johnny, Tommy and Joey) took the CBGB stage for the first time, and afterwards became the club’s first regulars. CBGB closed in October 2006; in 2013 its building was added to the National Register of Historic Places, per 6sqft.
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Knitting Factory (East Houston Street)
1992Michael Dorf opened the Knitting Factory in 1987 on East Houston Street as a cafe and avant-garde performance space, and moved it to Leonard Street in 1994, per amNewYork. Jeff Buckley played the club in March and April 1992; four songs from those shows, three of them from a WFMU broadcast on 22 March, are on Songs to No One 1991–1992, his album with Gary Lucas, per Wikipedia. Roy Nathanson and David Cale’s Deep in a Dream of You had its New York premiere here that year, per Wikipedia’s article on Nathanson.
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Moment
Joey Ramone Place
2003The corner of the Bowery and East Second Street became Joey Ramone Place on 30 November 2003, per Ultimate Classic Rock. The sign may be the city’s most stolen: the fourth time it was put back up, it was raised eight feet, per NBC New York.
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