Underground & Avant Jazz, Art Rock/Pop, Contemporary Classical, and the Completely UnCategorizable
Deep in the Heart of Manhattan's Two Bridges Neighborhood
LPs, CDs, DVDs, Books, and Live Music Too!
THE DMG 31st ANNIVERSARY IN-STORE PERFORMANCE CELEBRATION CONTINUES with:
Saturday, July 9th - The GAUCI-MUSIC SERIES Continues with:
6pm: Nick Saia - guitar / Ledah Finck - violin / Nora Stanley - alto sax
7pm: Stephen Gauci - tenor sax / Adam Lane - bass / Kevin Shea - drums
8pm: Yuma Uesaka - sax-clarinet / Weston Olencki - trombone-electronics / Laura Cocks - flute
Tuesday, July 12th:
6:30: WILL BERNARD - Guitar
7:30: PATRICK GOLDEN / JIM CLOUSE / JEFF PEARING / ADAM LANE - Drums / 2 Saxes / Contrabass
Tuesday, July 19th:
6:30: MICHAEL FORMANEK
7:30: JEREMY CARLSTEDT / KEVIN SHEA - Drum Duo
Tuesday, July 26th:
6:30: NIKOLAJ KLEMENS / JULIAN KIRSHNER - Tenor Sax / Drums
7:30: KENNETH JIMENEZ / HERY PAZ / TOM RAINEY - Contrabass / Saxophone / Drums
Sale!
That’s only $35 for 5 great avant/jazz/experimental/new music discs! 35 is the number of years that the Victo has been around. Imagine that! If you wish to purchase more than five titles, go right ahead. After you hit that 5 CD sale minimum, any other discs are also $7 each!
It has been three years since I attended the New Music Festival - FIMAV up in Quebec, Canada, yet it seems even longer due to the stress, trials...
Sale!
Recently, Mr. Lucas offered us some 20 titles, most at reduced prices. Only a third of these discs are in print: Tzadik Cuneiform and some on the newer Knit label. The rest are long out-of-print and hard to find. Hence, DMG is having a large GARY LUCAS CD Sale. We have from 1 to 5 copies of each title here so check your supply since many of these will disappear into ebay Hell after we sell out of any or all of what we have left. Gary Lucas is an old, dear friend and I am glad to support his effo
Saturday, May 1st was the actual anniversary of Downtown Music Gallery, 30 years to the day! I am immensely proud of all we’ve accomplished since we opened out doors on 211 East 5th St. in the East Village. Special thanks to all of the well-wishers who’ve written to us or come down in the past month, we do appreciate your kind words of support! We, here at DMG, are going to celebrate for the entire month with some live outdoor events, some in-store on-line events and a series of on-line epis
Last Friday, May 1st, was the 29th anniversary of the modest beginning of Downtown Music Gallery. We opened our doors on May 1st of 1991! Our first store was at 211 East 5th St., around the corner from Cooper Union. Our rent was cheap ($750) and the store was not very big (750 sq ft). There were two owners, David Yamner & Steve Popkin, and I worked for them 6 days a week. Their plan was to sell Used CD’s and vinyl while I promoted Downtown/Progressive/Avant Jazz, what I dug the most. There wer