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The day the music died: EVR signs off on First Ave.

Photo by Clayton Patterson
Photo by Clayton Patterson

After more than 10 years of operating — first on the air as an unlicensed pirate-radio station, then on the Internet — East Village Radio shut down last Friday. It had been running at a loss. At the last “Black and Blue” hardcore Tuesday show, MC Cuz (Joseph Cammarata), in white T-shirt, spoke about the station. EVR was located in a glass-walled storefront space, at 19 First Ave., near E. Second St. Music stars would drop in, like when Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon and Amy Winehouse producer Mark Ronson famously guest DJ’d there one night a few years ago.