Haha, that shithole was Death By Audio. My favorite venue in NY to see bands. After seven years they closed up for good last Saturday. Vice purchased their building and they unable to renew the lease. I've been going there fairly regularly since 2007, when I returned home from college. The first show I caught was Pissed Jeans with Eddy Current Suppression Ring. It was life-affirming, considering I just graduated and wasn't sure of coming home was the right decision. Since then I've been lucky to see tons of great bands and meet great people. It never felt like a scene and people were there first and foremost for the music.verb_to_trust wrote:For real. Where is this shithole?
I was lucky enough to catch four or five of the their final shows last week and in addition to the Oh Sees, see Protomartyr, Nots, Lightning Bolt, Metz and Jeff the Brotherhood. They were all billed as "top secret" guests so you had no idea really who was going to play until you got inside. It was a special place. And since I'm waxing nostalgic, here are some more pics from last week.
Protomartyr
Metz
Lightning Bolt was the final band that played and closed it down. Towards the end of the set these banker boxes full of old issues of Vice appeared and we laid to waste every single one. People were doing snow angels in their remains when it was all said and done.
Here is VERY nice tribute to the place from Impose.
http://www.imposemagazine.com/features/ ... io-tribute
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