Bar/club in the
TriBeCa section of downtown
New York City, famous for hosting
free jazz and
experimental music but also host to normal
rock sometimes. Big
hangout for
John Zorn.
Once the apex of cool, the Knit has slipped a bit -- they were possibly the first club to broadcast shows on the Internet, but they're not up to speed on the MP3 craze, and their Web site is chronically out of date.
Update: The Knit now has a Hollywood location, right on Sunset Blvd. Its construction almost threw owner Michael Dorf into bankruptcy, and for a while in 2000 the Village Voice was printing stories about the Knit being unable to make payroll; many many employees either left or were let go. Things appear to have stabilized ... but the Web site remains chronically out of date.
Oh... and John Zorn has had some kind of falling out with the Knit; he doesn't play there any more.