New York: the Knitting Factory opens

1987: Number 44 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicIn 1987, a new venue stumbled into life and illuminated that dark decade as a space where downtown experimentalists could find listeners: Steve Coleman and Bill Frisell might cross paths with Sonic Youth and Arto Lindsay. John Zorn's Naked City and Steve Bernstein's Sex Mob were launched there.Unbowed by equipment theft, quarrelsome neighbours and cash-flow problems, founder Michael Dorf expanded into record labels, ...

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