The Venue

Mercury Lounge

217 E Houston St

Mercury Lounge keeps touring bands and local acts close to the audience on the Lower East Side, with opening sets worth making time for.

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Shape The Night

Before

Sophie's

0.4 mi · 9 min walk - East Village

A pool table and cheap drafts have kept this East 5th Street bar useful. EV Grieve began in December 2007 as Sophie's Bar Blog, written to document the closing of this bar and Mona's after Page Six reported both were for sale. Neither one closed, and Rich Corton and Kirk Marcoe took Sophie's over in 2008.

9:00 PM · Gus Dapperton

After

Josie's

0.4 mi · 8 min walk - East Village

Opened in August 2012 in the old Joe's Bar, which closed when its proprietor died. The people behind Mona's and Sophie's took it on, refinished the bar, and put the checkerboard floor and the wallpaper back in their original patterns rather than choosing new ones. Pool table and a jukebox.