Downtown Music Gallery, an excellent record store and performance space specializing in avant-garde genres, is desperately looking for a new home, having been priced out of its current location on the Bowery. The staff's appeal for help doubles as a cogent essay on the decimation of New York's downtown scene by out-of-control rents. I don't know if any good-hearted, progressive-minded Lower East Side landlords read this blog, but DMG needs you.
