How can people support Meow Wolf during this time? Founded by saxophonist Henry Minton as a place for musicians to grab a meal and relax after shows—at the time, they were allowed to perform clubs but not linger—Minton’s became a testing ground for jazz artists, a place where regulars Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker could put younger players’ feet to the fire. If you want to support us, just buy a ticket! I know Doug Martsch bartended at Neurolux when it first opened, and he would play a bunch of shows back then. There have been dire predictions regarding live music venues closing at an alarming rate as a result of the pandemic. A lot of TV shows have filmed at Baby’s, right? Truthfully, we don’t have a signature cocktail right now, but this time has given us moments to think about stuff like that. 3 Eyed Fish Wine Bar (Richland)
You already know which one won. You take every little curveball as it comes. I don't want to put myself out on a limb and say that they're okay, because some people will not think that’s accurate. How would you describe the look and feel of The 40 Watt Club? Before it was called Great Scott, the bar was called Brandy’s, and it had a sign that said, “Brandy’s: Where incredible friendships begin.” Great Scott has had many different lives as far as the clientele and the programming goes. Pappy and Harriet, the married couple who took over in early 1980s, were musicians themselves, but ran the business primarily as a restaurant. And so the D.C. band was renamed Egoslavia. Adrian Grenier and Heather Graham were there, dancing in the front. How to support Tipitina’s: Subscribe to Tipitina’s Record Club, purchase livestream tickets at Tipitina’s TV, shop the merch store, or donate directly, Jump to: Trinosophes | Wooly’s | Constellation | First Avenue | The Hideout | Slowdown | The Beachland Ballroom & Tavern, Detroit, MichiganCapacity: 250Established: 2011Best Known For: Out-there sounds (and biscuits). We had two or three livestream shows per week over the course of the summer and fall, and those are generally set up so venues can get a portion of the proceeds for ticket sales that they drive. What has the day-to-day been like at House of Yes since COVID-19? I’m getting choked up just thinking about it. So I decided to build a stage on the sidewalk, and so for a year we’ve been doing all our activities outside. “Have a place where I can present and be inspired by things that do that for me. There’s this massive glass piece, I don’t know what it is even, but it’s in a frame. Liz Tallent: We’re right downtown, so we’re a fixture of life. We have learned to become great grant writers. So I don't know if we'll be able to get them back into the venue again. My huge concern at the time was my staff. What about your personal favorite concert or best memory of a show? We asked this guy, “You know anything about the Statue of Liberty?” And he said, “Oh, yeah, the Hells Angels brought it to welcome you to the neighborhood.”, It’s been this delicate balance of music venue and restaurant. Easily the Drake show in ‘09, which kind of set him up for the rest of his career and then the Houston Appreciation Weekend show years later. Does Koot’s have a signature dish or cocktail? What are you looking forward to most about the return of shows?
Mohawk assistant general manager Mikey Wheeler has been the venue’s only employee while it weathers the pandemic with closed doors. Vincent and Danny along with the Arkestra at Constellation. 424. 117. Despite the compounding stress of running a small venue, Register is already reimagining how they can continue expanding the Pinhook’s ability to be a creative home for anyone who needs it. We might not be doing the same numbers on the weekend, but I think there will be an opportunity to spread things across the week. In fact, I’ve been helping him with some Zoom charity performances, and one of them was for Neurolux. We hosted the artist talk and educational portions of the Trip Metal Festivals that Wolf Eyes did, and that first year, they had [electronic music pioneer] Morton Subotnick. Okay!” The next day I opened up the shed and screamed. Speaking from his family’s farm in Ojai, about an hour and a half drive from the club, the younger Edelson concedes that the past year has been trying: “The state still wants its money for my liquor license, the county still wants its money for my health permit, and the city still wants its money for my live-entertainment permits—even though I’m not allowed to use any of them." “It’s a place where people can dress however they want, or be however they want. What would be your dream first show back? What do bands like about playing Neurolux? How did you handle the transition from the identity of Pappy’s under its original ownership to its current incarnation as a venue? Tucked away in an industrial corridor along the Chicago River in a 100-year-old balloon-frame house, it’s an unassuming spot with a big heart. For Live Music Venues. Pharoah Sanders is another favorite. It’s a place where you can experiment and try new things. We do hip-hop nights, tropical nights, techno nights. What local bands are you excited to feature on stage once shows are back? Every night Billy Corgan would go around our downtown and give comp tickets to kids.
Over the past decade, they’ve hosted the first New York shows by breakthrough acts like Deafheaven and Pallbearer while also seeing appearances from legends, including Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, Megadeth, and, of course, their namesake band Saint Vitus. “Load-in was probably at 2 p.m., and the guys were still working on getting the green room set, and some construction worker started snacking on their food,” he says. We’re thinking about bringing it back. People that work at the venue that don’t even drink.
This led to confusion when they were selling tickets to both shows, so they decided to have a band playoff. Founded in 1982 by owner Larry Gold, the venue was originally a Brazilian dance club, but later expanded its focus to showcase the sounds and styles coming out of Haiti, Cuba, Africa, Puerto Rico, and beyond, like bossa nova, salsa, zydeco, Afrobeat, and more. Before lockdown, we were gearing up to have a pretty successful summer/fall 2020. A dance party at Neumos. What did an average day look like in normal times? Fleet Foxes, Diplo, Vampire Weekend. It gives me so much hope that I don’t have to look to next month and wonder if we’re going to close or not. “We’d already booked it, advanced it, and bought the liquor for it,” says Vego. The midsize club is a crucial node of the same regional scene that launched Merge Records, whose present-day offices are a few blocks away. It’s weird, having the governor and the county telling you it’s OK to do things, you don’t need to have these restrictions anymore. We've got a fairly small stage, but we have really amazing neon projection mapping all throughout the space. Government small-business loans and assistance from the Save Our Stages Act are also helping to bridge the gap until it’s safe to reopen. Instead of stressing all the time, I can spend my time making my venue safer and also considering what access and accessibility look like on shows for people in the future. Johnson: It’s in the heart of Capitol Hill, which historically is a neighborhood known for the arts and musicians, and has a very big LGBTQ population. Audrey Schaefer (Communications Director): At the time, there was a local D.C. band called R.E.M., who were coming up at the same time as this other outfit out of Georgia called R.E.M. … We did a bunch of research, and then started to bring back a few of the tech folks to try and do it safely. 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