Founder of CBGB dies

(click the image above for CBGB’s : thirty years from the home of underground rock )
From today's NY Times: Hilly Kristal, who founded CBGB, the Bowery bar that became the cradle of punk and art-rock in New York in the 1970s and served as the inspiration for musician-friendly rock dives throughout the world, died in Manhattan on Tuesday. He was 75. Read the whole NYT obituary HERE

Read a profile of Hilly Kristal from Billboard magazine in 2002 HERE