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Rich Teeter, a drummer who played with punk pioneers the Dictators and later served a short stint with Twisted Sister, has died, Loudwire.com reports. He was 61. The sad news comes via Dictators Forever, Forever Dictators, a blog devoted to the legendary New York City band Teeter joined in 1976. The timekeeper played on two albums, Manifest Destiny (1977) and Bloodbrothers (1979), and occasionally took part in reunion shows. According to Loudwire, his last performance with the band likely came in 1991. As a member of Twister Sister, Teeter stuck around only for a few months, occupying the throne from...

Most club bathrooms are far from a pretty sight so I can only imagine the type of facility CBGB offered fans in need of relief after one too many beers. A new art exhibit in Hartford, Conn., will give music lovers the chance to return to the scene of the crime to relive the glory that was the punk rock club’s bathroom. An artist named Justin Lowe is recreating the bathroom of the iconic New York venue in an installation taking up four galleries of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. According to the Wall Street Journal, the graffiti-covered restroom...

NEW YORK (AP) - The final chords reverberated off the black, sticker-covered walls of CBGB as the grungy, iconic club toasted the end of its 33-year residence in New York. Rock poet Patti Smith headlined the Sunday night concert, CBGB's last before eviction by its landlord - the Bowery Residents Committee, a homeless advocacy group that owns the property. The club will close Oct. 31. Hundreds of music fans packed the small downtown club Sunday, while reporters hovered outside. The mood was both somber and raucous at CBGB, hailed by many as the birthplace of punk. "This place is not...

CBGB owner Hilly Kristal sits at his club during an interview Sept. 26, 2006, in New York. After Oct. 15, the legendary club that has hosted acts such as Patti Smith, the Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Blondie will close its doors for good, ending a 33-year run as punk rocks seminal music venue. CBGB owner Hilly Kristal sits at his club during an interview Sept. 26, 2006, in New York. After Oct. 15, the legendary club that has hosted acts such as Patti Smith, the Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Blondie will close its doors for good, ending a...

CBGB Owner Relocating Club — Urinals Included — To Vegas This Spring Hilly Kristal vows to put on finale shows at NYC venue. Hilly Kristal's got an awful lot of packing ahead of him. The owner and operator of New York's legendary CBGB club says by mid-October, the last drinks will have been poured and the last unsigned band will have taken the stage inside the punk-rock landmark. In compliance with an agreement Kristal reached with the club's landlord last December (see "CBGB Owner, Landlord Reach Accord: Club To Close On Halloween '06"), CBGB will no longer exist on the...

Virtually every punk and punk/pop band on the charts today owes a debt to the owner, 73-year-old Hilly Kristal, who opened the club in December 1973 to book the country, folk and bluegrass bands he wanted to hear. That mission changed fairly quickly when three guys named Richard Lloyd, Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell had their manager book their band, Television, a Sunday night gig. ... Its landlord, the Bowery Residents' Committee, which runs the homeless shelter adjacent to the club, wants more than $91,000 in back rent owed to them by Kristal. If they don't get it, both CBGB...