Roseland Ballroom

NYC's historic Roseland Ballroom closed in April, began getting gutted in August, and now its roof has been torn down. The photo above reveals an aerial view of what it looks like now...

(via Rosa Goldensohn) Roseland Ballroom shut its gates for good back in April after 56 years on 52nd St. The guts of the club are now being demolished which you can witness six seconds of via a Vine (via Gothamist) below...

Roseland opened in New York in 1919 and hosted icons like Count Basie in the Thirties. It relocated to its 52nd Street home (a former skating rink called Gay Blades) in the late Fifties, where a display inside touted the number of couples who'd met there and married...

Albert Hammond, Jr. got the show going, and sounded just as razor sharp as he did when I saw him open for Jake Bugg a few weeks ago. This time the crowd was much bigger, but the execution was just as on point...

Black Keys at Central Park in 2012 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) The Super Bowl weekend concerts in NYC keep coming. After already announcing Red Hot Chili Peppers at Barclays Center, Foo FIghters on the Bud Light Hotel cruise, The Roots on that same cruise, and others, three more concerts, billed as The Evenings With Legends, were announced today...

The last we heard, Lady Gaga was set to play Roseland Ballroom's final six shows before the venue closes. All six of those have sold out, and she's since added a seventh happening on April 7, and they're now saying this one will be the final s...

crowd at Roseland Ballroom during Kendrick Lamar in Feb (more by Dylan Johnson) As discussed, NYC venue Roseland Ballroom closes its doors this Ap...

"Lady Gaga" w/ Gwar at MHOW in 2011 (more by Chris La Putt) NYC's Roseland Ballroom is closing this April, and additions to the venue's final schedule keep popping up...

The Violent Femmes returned to the stage for some shows this year, after calling it quits in 2009. They first came to NYC for a show in Central Park back in September, but that show was quickly called off due to flooding, and this past Thursday (11/14), they finally returned for their first full NYC show since 2007 at Roseland Ballroom, one of the final shows for the venue which closes in April...

Some bands that aspire to arenas or have played them, can't recalibrate their show to a smaller space. The lead singer of an unknown band can look like a wannabe Bono when making broad gestures and playing to the back of the room when the back of the room is only yards rather than miles away...