James Murphy will be rocking Times Square with a DJ set as part of free CBGB outdoor festival
Times Square
Saturday, October 12, free, 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
www.cbgb.com
Back in the day, no one would ever have equated CBGB — the punk club that helped launch the careers of such seminal musicians as Patti Smith, Talking Heads, and Television — with Times Square, particularly the new, Disney-fied Crossroads of the World. But this is a different era, as the CBGB bathroom was even re-created for the recent Met Costume Institute exhibit “Punk: Chaos to Couture,” although it wasn’t quite as we remembered it. But on Saturday, October 12, the second annual CBGB Festival will take over Times Square, with five stages of live music along Broadway. Between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm, the Wallflowers and Lisa Loeb will be playing on the South Stage, while Divine Fits and up-and-coming bands will be playing on the North Stage. After 4:00, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy (DJ set) and My Morning Jacket will take over the South Stage, with Grizzly Bear on the North Stage. The food court will include such favorites as DBGB, Luke’s Lobster, BGR the Burger Joint, Crif Dogs, House of ’Que, and Ho’brah Taco. Among the special activities are an Animal BMX ramp, a rock-climbing walls a Two Boots pizza-eating contest, an art commune creating a CBGB mural, a Smashing Pumpkin tent with professional pumpkin carvers, an enormous interactive touch screen, and a CBGB salon offering punk makeovers.