Friday, June 11, 2021

New music now (1980-1986 edition) at the Museum of the City of New York

An EVG reader shares this about a new exhibit opening today up at the Museum of the City of New York titled "New York, New Music:1980-1986" ...
The exhibit features rare videos of several bands and musical groups including KONK and Bellhead at the Tompkins Square Park band shell, DNA, Arthur Russell, the Cramps, Tish & Snooky, Kid Creole, Richard Hell, the Del-Byzanteens, Bad Brains, 3 Teens Kill 4, Bush Tetras, James White, John Zorn ... and tons of ephemera and photographs. 
Yes! Road trip to Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street! Read more about it at this link.

The museum is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Monday (though today the doors open at noon).

H/T Mr. Baggs! Image via Museum of the City of New York
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 11, 2021 at 10:28 AM

    The MCNY is probably my favorite NYC museum. It's small and always offers something fantastic. They often focus on local interests, just like this. A few years ago, there was an exhibit on the windmill of E 11th St, which was so inspiring and reminded me why I love living in the EV. This is one of the few institutions that feels like it attracts more locals than tourists and I highly recommend it.

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  2. AnonymousJune 11, 2021 at 1:35 PM

    A strong back-up to what Anonymous @10:28 posted about MCNY.

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  3. urbanshockerJune 11, 2021 at 3:44 PM

    It’s wonderful to see some of the stuff kept alive VIA photographs and video footage some of these people went on to make it big and some didn’t which means for all intents and purposes they’re not now years ago I went to this museum and saw my personal favorite exhibit it was an exhibit about the yearsThat New York City had three baseball teams

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  4. AnonymousJune 11, 2021 at 4:52 PM

    Geeze, Deborah Harry looks like sh'e barely a teenager in that photo.

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