Lower East Side

Recent activity

Jun 19   New review for Desmond's Tavern.
  My one experience here was good. This is a solid venue with a nice clientele and a good sound guy who is pleasant to work with. Room sounded good, people…

Jun 19   Desmond's Tavern was added .

Mar 12   New review for Arlene's Grocery.
  PA, sound in room, sound engineer, stage size and lights all excellent. Payment of the bands who do all the work to bring the crowd...total crap. A band or artist…

Oct 3   New review for Ella Lounge.
  There are two spaces, upstairs and downstairs. Upstairs tends to have regular weekly performances (soul/funk band on Mondays, etc.) and varying groups downstairs. There isn't a built-in crowd, and on…

Oct 3   Ella Lounge was added .

Oct 3   New review for National Underground.
  I agree with michaelwinograd's review. This is the scuzziest place I have ever played. They'll double book, and I had a friend's group come down from Boston to perform here,…

Oct 3   New review for Local 269.
  I agree with musicman71's review. Very small space, very loud sound, empty room, difficult to draw people to. The band set-up in between sets is DIY. Beyond that, I went…

Oct 3   New review for Googie's Lounge.
  Googie's Lounge is a mezzanine-level space on the second floor of the Living Room. There are no walls between the performance space and the bar area on the main level.…

Oct 2   New review for Bowery Ballroom.
  I played at the Ballroom with someone else's band, so I don't know about the payment and booking situation. But in terms of set up and sound, this is a…

Oct 2   New review for 169 Bar.
  Not sure if it is still like this, but my experience with Bar 169 was identical to places like Bar East, National Underground, etc. This venue hires a new booking…

Jan 5   New review for UC87 Lounge.
  I wish I didn't even have to give this place a single star. They are a RIP OFF- bands beware! I wrote a review of this place on Yelp, I'll…

Oct 12   New review for Arlene's Grocery.
  I've played here a few times over the past couple of years, both solo acoustic and with band; they made improvements to the PA system a little while ago...I thought…

Mar 11   Arlene's Grocery was added .

Venues in Lower East Side

• 169 Bar

    
  Genres: rock, pop, jazz, avant-garde, swing, indie rock, indie
  Latest review: “Not sure if it is still like this, but my experience with Bar 169 was identical to places like Bar East, National Underground, etc. This venue hires a new booking…”

• Arlene's Grocery

    
  Latest review: “PA, sound in room, sound engineer, stage size and lights all excellent. Payment of the bands who do all the work to bring the crowd...total crap. A band or artist…”

• Bowery Ballroom

    
  Genres: rock, pop, folk
  Latest review: “I played at the Ballroom with someone else's band, so I don't know about the payment and booking situation. But in terms of set up and sound, this is a…”

• COMA - ABC No Rio

    
  Genres: Experimental, Free Jazz
  Latest review: “A Creative music series run by reedist Blaise Siwula, probably the longest running experimental/improvised music series in NYC. An open and musician friendly atmosphere, donations are given to musicians at…”

• Crash Mansion

• Delancey Lounge

    
  Genres: afrobeat, rock, funk, jazz
  Latest review: “Nothing special. We played in the basement and saw a lot of people at the gig, decent sound, but somehow this didn't translate into much pay.”

• Desmond's Tavern

    
  Latest review: “My one experience here was good. This is a solid venue with a nice clientele and a good sound guy who is pleasant to work with. Room sounded good, people…”

• Ella Lounge

    
  Genres: rock, funk, soul
  Latest review: “There are two spaces, upstairs and downstairs. Upstairs tends to have regular weekly performances (soul/funk band on Mondays, etc.) and varying groups downstairs. There isn't a built-in crowd, and on…”

• Googie's Lounge

    
  Genres: indie rock, experimental
  Latest review: “Googie's Lounge is a mezzanine-level space on the second floor of the Living Room. There are no walls between the performance space and the bar area on the main level.…”

• Local 269

    
  Genres: rock
  Latest review: “I agree with musicman71's review. Very small space, very loud sound, empty room, difficult to draw people to. The band set-up in between sets is DIY. Beyond that, I went…”