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Iggy Pop and Jack White to Headline CBGB Festival

Iggy Pop and Jack White have been tapped to headline CBGB Festival, which will take place at Under the Bridge Park in Brooklyn in September.

Hilly Kristal opened CBGB & OMFUG in 1973 in the heart of the Bowery, which at the time was one of New York’s grittiest neighborhoods — an ideal spot for a burgeoning underground scene. The hallowed venue CBGB, for which the fest takes its name, was known for booking iconic musicians like the Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Television, and many more before they became legends. “It was an honor to be the last group, and I really thought about what that meant, what kind of responsibility that was,” Smith, who first played the CBGB in 1974, told Rolling Stone after she gave the final CGBG performance.

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