Party / residency · cross-linked record

Max's Kansas City: 1976 (RAM imprint)

A recurring night threaded through the atlas. A party often outlives any single room, tracing it across addresses is one way the atlas connects eras.

Rooms it touched

Max's Kansas City

1965–1974 (Ruskin era); 1975–1981 (Mills/Crowley era) · Gramercy / Union Square, Manhattan

ClosedPerformance space

In-house compilation produced by Peter Crowley as a promotional document of the punk era; later reissued by Jungle Records with 30 bonus tracks as Max's Kansas City: 1976 & Beyond.