The Brighton Bar is a famous punk club located at 121 Brighton Avenue in the resort community of Long Branch, New Jersey

Long Branch, New Jersey

Long Branch is a city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 30,719.Long Branch was formed on April 11, 1867, as the Long Branch Commission, from portions of Ocean Township...

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The bar is owned by Greg Macolino, former lead singer of hardcore group Chronic Sick. It is often compared to CBGBs,
and during the 1980s, it was the epicenter of the punk movement that primarily centered on
Mutha Records

Mutha Records

Mutha Records was a Jersey Shore based punk rock record label established in 1982, which released material by New Jersey hardcore bands such as The Worst, Chronic Sick, and Fatal Rage. The label's activities were primarily based in Monmouth County beach communities such as Long Branch and Asbury...

 and later in the 1990's featured Punk Rock Records

Punk Rock Records

Punk Rock Records is a record company founded in 1983. The record company released material by various punk groups U.S. Chaos, Violent Society, Dysfunctional Youth, NY Relx, The Decepticons, The Suspects, DDSM's, Above All Hope, The Stun Gunz and The Guilloteens and Pazz Kluger....

  who's artists share very similar production efforts, of a common recording studio and producers. U.S. Chaos

U.S. Chaos

U.S. Chaos are an American punk rock band from New Jersey, formed in 1981. They were one of the first American bands to play in an Oi!/street punk style....

, Chronic Sick, Stisisim, Mental Decay, Social Decay, Mental Abuse, Broken Heroes, Kraut, The Stun Gunz and The Flair Up's, some who have all shared the Brighton Bar's stage, consistently for almost 30 years.

It is the last of New Jersey's legendary punk venues, out living the Dirt Club, the Pipeline in Newark, and Asbury Park’s Fast Lane. The club helped launch the careers of The Damned, Vice Squad, and The Misfits and has been called the "CBGBs of the south. The bar often has music nights featuring Monmouth University

Monmouth University

Monmouth University is a private university located in West Long Branch, New Jersey, United States.Founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, it became Monmouth College in 1956, and later Monmouth University in 1995 after receiving its charter....

's radio station, WMCX.

The interior of the club features a mural, painted by Dave DeSantes, that pays tribute to all the legendary bands that have performed at the venue.

In 2010, David Johansen

David Johansen

David Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.-Early life:Johansen was born in...

 of the New York Dolls

New York Dolls

The New York Dolls is an American rock band, formed in New York in 1971. The band's protopunk sound prefigured much of what was to come in the punk rock era; their visual style influenced the look of many new wave and 1980s-era glam metal groups, and they began the local New York scene that later...

 and Andy Shernoff

Andy Shernoff

Andy Shernoff is a musician, songwriter, record producer and oenophile.He is a founding member of The Dictators, one of the original New York punk bands, in which he wrote nearly all of the songs, played bass guitar and keyboards, and sang backing vocals and occasional leads...

 of The Dictators

The Dictators

The Dictators are an American punk rock band formed in New York City in 1973. Critic John Dougan said that they were "one of the finest and most influential proto-punk bands to walk the earth." The Dictators are represented in the "Punk Wing" of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, Ohio...

, and Darrell McBride shared the stage.