A brand new one-day music competition is scheduled for later this 12 months in New York. CBGB Festival—not affiliated with the citywide CBGB Music and Film Festival of the early 2010s—will happen September 21 at Brooklyn’s Under the K Bridge Park. Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols, and Jack White are set to headline, with the Smiths’ Johnny Marr, Soul Glo, YHWH Nailgun, the Linda Lindas, Lip Critic, and Lambrini Ladies additionally among the many artists showing on the invoice. Try the competition poster beneath.
A press launch accompanying the competition announcement reads: “The lineup connects punk’s originators with its fiercest future voices, all answering one core query: Who could be taking part in at CBGB in the present day?”
Revisit Eric Harvey’s column “CBGB Is a Sitcom Version of Punk.”
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