Freddys Bar and Backroom

What's going on Saturday? (Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo, Bent Shapes, Cassie Ramone, Colleen Green & more)

Cassie Ramone w/ The Babies @ Shubas Chicago, 2012 (more by Stan Golovchuk) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows…

NYC venues hosting election viewing parties tonight

In addition to there being a bunch of Hurricane Sandy Relief benefits in NYC tonight (11/6), you may also be aware it is Election Day and what is looking like is gonna be a real squeaker…

Freddy's Bar to stay "OPEN come Hell or High-Sandy Water", hosting an open mic

Freddy’s Bar, which famously moved to South Park Slope/Sunset Park after being eventually forced to close by Ratner & Co to make room for the new Barclays Center, is not letting Hurricane Sandy control them in the same way…

Freddy's Bar opens tonight (initial schedule)

“The new location, 20 blocks away in South Park Slope, was previously home to a short-lived bar called Ellis. “I was looking a lot in this neighborhood,” said co-owner Donald O’Finn, who managed the old Freddy’s…

Freddy's Bar re-opening soon, Brute Force playing there

Freddy’s Bar, the Brooklyn dive that was forced to leave its Dean Street home last year because of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project, has just set a date for its grand reopening in a new location two miles away…

Freddy's Bar & Backroom stayed open one extra night (RIP)

Freddy’s last night… (pexy)”Today is a sad day for a lot of people who live close to Flatbush Ave. Fort Greene, Park Slope and further. In fact for a lot of Brooklyn…

Freddy's is closing on Friday, but opening somewhere else

“Hipsters, old-timers, and barflies will raise their glasses at Freddy’s Bar for the last time on Friday — making a final toast to a Prohibition-era watering hole, but one man won’t be there: the man whose name is on the awning…