New York City Clubs Biting The Dust

As you read on here, the Charleston packed it in. The C-Note and Luna Lounge, places I've reported on gigs from last year, are both gone. CBGB's is being put out of its mangled misery next October. And now the Continental is ending its live music component. The Continental was the runner-up to CBGB's 'lo these many years, but I only have had the opportunity to go once...at the last CMJ fest.

And beyond rock clubs, as Brooklyn Vegan also mentions, is the end, the horrible, horrible, wrong end of the 2nd Ave Deli. From now on, when anyone laments to you the loss of CBGB's, tell them the Ramones and Talking Heads stopped playing long ago, but the Pastrami on Rye was supposed to last forever!