In the mid-80s while rapping in small venues and after a record deal went sour, Hammer borrowed $20,000 each from former Oakland A's players Mike Davis and Dwayne Murphy to start a record label business called Bust It Productions.
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“We lost a lot of creative space in the city — the Cooler went under, Tonic went under, but Suzanne provided a space for creative art that challenged and pushed the limits,” Sonic Youth co-founder Lee Ranaldo told The Brooklyn Paper.
In the 1980s, 3RRR established its studios in Victoria Street, off Brunswick Street, the Punters Club established itself as a significant live music venue, as did the Evelyn Hotel, and independent record shop PolyEster Records opened.
It was renamed The Civic in 1986 and was a bar, and then served as a live music venue, with acts by Salmonella Dub, Shapeshifter, Elemeno P and Anika Moa.
he was one of the leading members of the Bay Area Improv Scene, particularly during the period when he was one of the Beanbenders music venue.
The Evergreen Cultural Centre is a theatre and music venue in Coquitlam, British Columbia, opened in October 1996 by former Coquitlam Mayor Lou Sekora.
Prior to that he worked as the promotions director for Chicago’s legendary live music venue, The Empty Bottle.
The Palais is a well known and popular bar and music venue which regularly attracts national and international acts including Paul Kelly, Mark Seymour and Lloyd Cole.
The Iron Door Club was a music venue at 13 Temple Street, Liverpool founded by Geoff Hogarth and Harry Ormesher.
The Jericho Tavern is a music venue and pub in the Jericho area of Oxford, England at 56 Walton Street.
Toby Keith, Sawyer Brown, and Trick Pony, have each made the speedway a temporary music venue.
Igor Hansen-Love, the bass player in Milt Opus, was an early mentor to Nikolai Fraiture, who, together with Julian Casablancas, also attended the LFNY, and formed a band called The Strokes in 1998, shortly after Milt Opus played its first gig at The Spiral, an East Houston Street music venue in New York City.
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, often referred to simply as the Meyerhoff, a music venue and the home to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Apart from sporting events, the stadium is also used as a music venue for cultural events with Bryan Adams being the most notable act that performed at the site.
Apart from its well known beach, Oakura's main attraction is Butlers Reef - a bar and music venue that has showcased many well known New Zealand and international acts, including Dave Dobbyn, Trinity Roots, Gin Wigmore, Katchafire, Supergroove and Jimmy Barnes.
The Paradise Rock Club, a music venue located in Boston, Massachusetts, formerly known as Paradise Theater.
The $2.9-million city-owned project soon became an acclaimed music venue, for artists as varied as Eric Clapton, Frank Sinatra, Village People, Dave Brubeck, Laura Nyro, Ella Fitzgerald, Prince and Bob Dylan.
As a music venue, Skrappy's saw the rise of many Tucson native bands such as The Bled, Versus the Mirror, Blues, The American Black Lung, Line of Fire, The Mean Reds, Beyond the Citadel of Coup de Grace and many others.
It was used as a classroom for pupils of Whitley Bay High School during a caretakers' strike in the 1980s, and later became a live music venue playing host to several bands, including an appearance by Ash in 2001.
In November 2005, they were named as the inaugural "Artist of the Month" in the Your Sound competition; a scheme run by Glasgow music venue King Tut's Wah Wah Hut along with DF Concerts to project local unsigned talent.
The Emerson Theater is an all age music venue located at 4634 E. 10th Street in the Little Flower neighborhood of Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Infomatics then participated in the live final at the Button Factory music venue alongside fellow finalists Dirty Epics and R.S.A.G. and won the series and the title Sony Ericsson Artist of the Year.
The venue has also been voted favourite live music venue by readers of the NME on several occasions.
Prior to becoming a music venue, the building housed a restaurant named Mrs. Jay's, next to which was Mrs. Jay's Beer Garden that was frequented by a polyglot community of tourists, high school and college students and bikers.
The Sweets of Sin's move to Sydney resulted in their being seen by Larrikin Records' Bill O'Toole at a Balmain world music venue.
The band played the final leg of their last tour in December with Alexisonfire, ending with their last show at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, a cherished local music venue where they had played early in their career.
The event is held in the neighborhood's open-air amphitheater at Standard Deluxe Inc. (A Internationally known Design & Screen Print Shop/Music Venue) The 2012 Waverly Boogie featured sets from Centro-Matic, Hurray for the Riff Raff and The Pine Hill Haints among others.