What four-letter club in New York was famous for punk shows?
Punk rock Head headed down to New York City to play "Canada night" at CBGB. By mid-1977 in downtown New York, punk rock was already ceding its cutting-edge status to the anarchic sound of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Mars, spearheads of what became known as no wave, although several original punk bands continued to perform and new ones emerged on the scene. The Cramps, whose core members were from Sacramento, California by way of Akron, had debuted at CBGB in November 1976, opening for the Dead Boys. They were soon playing regularly at Max's Kansas City. The Misfits formed in
Sound of Music (punk club) Sound of Music (punk club) The Sound of Music club was a punk music concert venue, located at 162 Turk Street in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, California, in the 1980s. The Sound of Music was a bar in the Tenderloin. They occasionally had drag shows there. By 1980, the proprietor, known as "Celso," became amenable to trying other genres. Linda Barnhizer and Alan Naldrett, two local promoters who occasionally ran shows at a venue at Fort Mason, successfully convinced Celso that punk music would be a good match for the club. The new genre of punk music was