Jay's Longhorn Bar was a small scale concert venue, known for being a nexus of the punk rock and New Wave scenes in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Located at 14 South Fifth Street in downtown Minneapolis, the Longhorn was opened by owner Jay Berine on June 1, 1977,[4] with help from general manager-artist director-musician/songwriter Al Wodtke (of Badfinger, KYX, Crow, and Apostles).
[11] The Longhorn became a notable punk rock and hardcore punk venue, booking bands such as the Buzzcocks, The Police, Gang of Four,[12] Talking Heads, Dead Boys, Robert Gordon,[4] Iggy Pop, the Stranglers,[13] the Flamin' Oh's, The Suburbs, the Suicide Commandos,[14] the Hypstrz, Naked Raygun, The Jets, the Effigies, the Ramones, Pere Ubu, Lily Tomlin, the Plasmatics,[15] Elvis Costello, Curtiss A, and the Nerves.
[3] Chris Osgood, singer-guitarist of the Suicide Commandos, described the Longhorn as "like CBGB in that it was a long bar with a low ceiling and the band was up on a riser at one end of the room.
)[18] Nostalgia for the heyday of the venue was the focus of Minnesota musician Dylan Hicks's song "The Longhorn Days", from his 1998 album Poughkeepsie.