OPEN BARS (2)
Mercury Lounge
🇺🇸New York, United States
A small club (250 capacity) in the Lower East Side. Mercury Lounge is known for breaking new bands since the 1990s in an intimate, no-frills environment. It was a linchpin of the early 2000s NYC rock revival.
Bowery Ballroom
🇺🇸New York, United States
While lacking the decades-spanning history of the Fillmore or CBGB, the Bowery Ballroom represents the perfection of the modern rock club. Opened as a music venue in 1998 by the team behind the Mercury Lounge, the venue set a new benchmark for mid-sized concert halls. The building dates to 1929, constructed just prior to the Wall Street Crash. The renovation in the late 1990s preserved the Art Deco grandeur and 24-foot ceilings while engineering the space specifically for amplified music.