Handsome Dick Manitoba

East Village dive bar Manitoba's has closed

”In spite of the fact that we’ve closed, we know that people from all over America and all over the world have excitedly entered our doors for 20 years,” Manitoba told EV Grieve. ”This wasn’t a ’bar’ to them. It was a special, relaxed home away from home.”

New Year’s Eve Weekend in NYC: a guide to shows, parties & more ways to ring in 2019

Looking for a way to ring in 2019 in NYC? There are no shortage of options. Here’s our guide to shows, parties and more over the long weekend.

Handsome Dick Manitoba arrested for domestic assault

The former Dictators singer was charged with choking his ex-girlfriend.

tix on sale: The Movielife, "Weird Al," Four Tet, Kimbra & more

Plus: Majid Jordan, Budos Band, Dipset/A$AP Mob, The Go! Team, Umphrey’s McGee and more tickets on sale.

'L.A.M.F.' tribute in pics (ft. Deborah Harry, Handsome Dick Manitoba, more)

Blondie’s Clem Burke, The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers’ Walter Lure, and MC5’s Wayne Kramer performed the Heartbreaker’s ‘L.A.M.F.’ at four NYC shows. We caught the Marlin Room show with Blondie singer Deborah Harry, Dead Boys’ Cheetah Chrome, The Dictators’ Handsome Dick Manitoba, and more.

East Village punk dive Manitoba's faces closure, launches crowdfunding campaign

Manitoba’s, the Avenue B dive bar owned frontman “Handsome” Dick Manitoba, has been an East Village fixture since 1999. But its days may be numbered after a recent legal dispute that has them paying a hefty settlement…

Jonathan Toubin is DJing every night in January in NYC, including shows w/ JSBX, Lydia Lunch, James Chance & more

Jonathan Toubin was busy during the holidays, and that is a state that will not change for him in the near future. He’ll spend every night in January playing somewhere in NYC as part of his “2015 Subway Tour…

Cheetah Chrome touring, playing NYC together w/ Miriam, Ramones anniversary, more

We recently mentioned that Miriam, the new recording project of Miriam Linna (Kicks fanzine writer, A-Bones drummer/singer, Norton Records co-founder, etc) released her debut album of garage rock/Phil Spector pop, Nobody’s Baby, earlier this year on Norton and that she’ll be opening for The Muffs at the NYC stop of their tour happening October 10 at The Bell House with Vivian Girls/Hole-related band Upset (tickets)…

Wayne Kramer played Bowery Electric w/ help from Jesse Malin, Dick Manitoba and Jeremy Piven (pics, video)

Wayne Kramer was in NYC for the kickoff of new PBS series Lifecasters (one of the segments was about him and his wife) and he played a few songs at the premiere event at Lincoln Center on Wednesday (2/6)…

MC5's Michael Davis (R.I.P.) remembered by Wayne Kramer, Ted Nugent & more

After dropping out of the fine arts program at Wayne State University, Michael Davis became the bassist for Detroit’s radical proto-punk band the MC5 in 1964, replacing original bassist Pat Burrows when singer Rob Tyner and guitarist Wayne Kramer decided that they liked Davis’s style and wanted him in the band…
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