Iggy Pop and Jack White will headline CBGB Festival, which will take place at Under the Bridge Park in Brooklyn on Sept. 27 and features 21 bands performing on three stages. The event marks Iggy Pop’s first New York show in more than a decade, per the organizers.
Other punk stalwarts in the lineup include Sex Pistols, Johnny Marr, Lunachicks, Marky Ramone, the Damned, and Melvins. They’re joined by hardcore acts like Gorilla Biscuits, Murphy’s Law, and Cro-Mags. The lineup also features new gen punk purveyors such as the Linda Lindas, Lambrini Girls, Destroy Boys, Angel Du$t, Scowl, Pinkshift, Teen Mortgage, YHWH Nailgun, Soul Glo, and Lip Critic.
Tickets for the festival go on sale Friday, May 16 at 10 a.m. ET, with a presale available the day prior. More information, including presale registration, can be found at CBGBFest.com. Limited discounted tickets will also be offered to New York residents under the age of 25 at a box office pop-up at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday, May 17 at 12 p.m. ET.
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Hilly Kristal opened CBGB & OMFUG in 1973 in the heart of the Bowery, which at the time was one of New York’s grittiest neighborhoods — an ideal spot for a burgeoning underground 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 became legends. The club closed in October 2006; its last show was a three-and-a-half-hour performance by Patti Smith.
“It was an honor to be the last group, and I really thought about what that meant, what kind of responsibility that was,” Smith, who first played the CBGB in 1974, told Rolling Stone after she gave the final CGBG performance. “I thought about all the people that played there and that we lost — about Hilly [Kristal, the owner] and the whole history. I just wanted to do a night like any other night, sort of like the nights at the beginning but without being nostalgic.”
