96 Tears is the latest bar in Jesse Malin‘s East Village empire that includes Bowery Electric, Berlin and Niagara. It’s located right next to Niagara at 110 Ave A — the space that was just Tompkins ...

In 1966, the rock band Question Mark & the Mysterians had their first and only chart-topping hit with “96 Tears.” The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Oct. 29, 1966, and remained on the ...

The term “safe space” doesn’t usually conjure up images of a black-ceilinged bar and a vintage Seeburg jukebox packed with vinyl that includes “Have Love Will Travel,” by the Sonics, and “What a Way ...

The exhibit "50 Years of '96 Tears'" featuring memorabilia from the rock group Question Mark and the Mysterians will open at the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History, 500 Federal in Saginaw, on ...

BAY CITY, MI — With the BBC making a documentary on Question Mark and the Mysterians' "96 Tears" and Bay City Mayor Christopher Shannon designating that tune the city's official rock and roll song, we ...

The album may or may not be obsolete, but the fact remains: Listeners have long obsessed over individual songs. The Single File is The A.V. Club’s look at the deep cuts, detours, experiments, and ...

Question Mark and the Mysterians. Photo by Susie Martin. “Music is my vehicle,” Question Mark says numerous times throughout the course of a winding three-hour conversation. Though Mr. Mark (if you ...

If Question Mark and the Mysterians’ “96 Tears” (as in “you’re gonna cry 96 tears cry, cry, cry,”) isn’t the greatest two minutes and 57 seconds ever to emerge from a garage in Bay City, Michigan, ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. It's so fucking ...