The Green Lantern
From Louisville Punk/Hardcore History
497 W 3rd St, Lexington, KY
he Green Lantern is a bar/venue in Lexington, Kentucky. Though it hosts bands of all genres, the venue has been notable for hosting many metal and punk bands over the years, the stoner, doom and sludge genres in particular. Along with live bands and not too dissimilar to most bars it hosts karaoke. Leans more heavily into punk with a lot of the Lexington/Eastern KY punks hanging there. Several Louisville bands have played there.
While the building dates back to the early 1950s as a local pub it began hosting shows for touring acts and locals within the Lexington scene as far back as 2009 with the likes of Chico Fellini, The Seedy Seeds and Wussy among early performers in that era.
Select Performers at The Lantern
Louisville
- Blind Scryer
- Deady
- GRLwood
- Isolation Tank Ensemble
- (ohlm)
- Opposable Thumbs
- Prayer Line (last show with Trent Combs)
- Savage Master
- Shi
- Shutaro Noguchi
- Stonecutters
- Tropical Trash
- Vice Tricks
Lexington and Other KY Cities
- Autocrat (Lexington)
- Bastard Sons of a Judas Goat (Mount Washington)
- Bed Sore (Lexington)
- Buzzhound (Eastern KY)
- CROP (Lexington)
- Dirtbag (Lexington)
- Everyone Lives Everyone Wins (Lexington)
- Ford Theatre Reunion
- Globsters (Hazard)
- Neglect (Lexington)
- Noncompliant (Lexington)
- Hawkbill (Manchester)
- Swamp Hawk (Lexington)
- Tombstalker (Lexington)
- Vibrolas (Central KY)
Regional and Touring
- Agent Orange
- Black Tusk
- Electric Citizen
- FaithXTractor
- Lung (Cincinnati)
- Monolord
- Pallbearer
- Sete Star Sept
- Spotlights
- Toke
- Truckfighters
- Vampyre
- Vile Creature