MUSIC

Lenny Kaye: Golden Jubilee Anniversary! 50yr Celebration of the Nuggets

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JULY 28 & 29, 2023
8:00 PM

City Winery
25 11th Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan

$35-$125
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People seem to forget that Punk Rock wasn’t this thing that was invented at CBGB in 1975; that was really Neo-Punk. No, Punk Rock was originally garage music from the mid-’60s. And one of the things that brought it back to general attention in the early ‘70s (along with detailed examination in Creem magazine) was critic/guitarist Lenny Kaye’s epochal anthology on the Elektra label, Nuggets. Although this purports to be a Golden Anniversary celebration, that was 51 years ago (I think I bought it they day it came out). And on these nights, Kaye and a bunch of like-minded nostalgiasts including bandmate Patti Smith will play and sing those songs.

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