688 Club

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The 688 Club was a popular alternative music venue in Atlanta, Georgia, located at 688 Spring Street, near the intersection of Spring and 3rd Streets. The 688 Club opened in May, 1980 and closed in November, 1986. During its brief lifetime, the 688 played host to hundreds of punk, new wave, and alternative bands - many of whom would later become world famous.

During the early 1980s, the 688 Club was the primary place for up-and-coming bands from Athens, Georgia and Atlanta, Georgia to get noticed. Bands that appeared at the 688 Club between 1980 and 1986 include:

• R.E.M.
• New Order
• Jim Carroll
• The Creatures
• The Executive Slacks
• Love Tractor
• Fishbone
• The Black Crowes (As 'Mr. Crowe's Garden')
• Hüsker Dü
• Jason and the Scorchers
• Meat Puppets
• Pylon
• The Church
• The Lyres
• Dead Kennedys
• Swimming Pool Q’s
• John Cale
• New Order
• Wall of Voodoo
• Echo and the Bunnymen
• The Method Actors
• Robyn Hitchcock
• Cabaret Voltaire
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• Black Flag
• The Restraints
• The Replacements
• Minutemen
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• 8 Eyed Spy (Lydia Lunch)
• Gang of Four
• The Gun Club
• Dream Syndicate
• The Brains
• Joe King Carrasco
• Circle Jerks
• Iggy Pop
• Human Sexual Response
• Golden Palominos