Scene: Downtown New York Punk and Post-Punk, 1976-83
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic Contributor
There's always music going on in New York City, always young artists coming to town to seek their fortune. But from the mid '70s to the early '80s, a bunch of interlocking music scenes popped up around downtown Manhattan, where the rents were still low enough for young people to find a cheap loft to live in, make big noises and push their art as far as it could go. The center of the early New… more »