Located at the corner of Madison Ave and 51st Street, the cake-like Look Building is named for the now-defunct magazine that the structure housed from 1937 to 1971.

The building also contained the offices of music publisher Witmark and Sons, who recorded early demos of Bob Dylan. In July 1962, Dylan recorded the first demo for the song "Blowin' in the Wind" in a 6' x 8' room at this address.

Since then, the Look building was added to the NYC landmark list in July of 2010. An album of the Witmark demos was released in 2010 called The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964.

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It was the most bourgeois apartment I had ever seen. An enormous Russian-style stove from the previous century at one end of the room, with a massive marble front; another one, just as tall, slightly less massive, in the bedroom. White, beautifully carved panels on all the walls, stuccowork on the ceilings, which were more than four meters tall. Fantastic herringbone parquet floors from the end of the nineteenth century. Her mother's furniture was in the same style: heavy, artistic, late nineteenth century.
"Can we live here?" I said as we walked around looking.

- My Struggle Book 2, Karl Ove Knausgaard

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On May 10, 1963, a storm was descending on the Boston area. A young folk singer was scheduled to perform in the (now gone) Ullman Ampitheatre for the Brandeis Folk Festival. Instead, he performed in the gym, and the performance was recorded.

Bob Dylan's performance at the 1963 Brandeis Folk Festival went undiscovered for several years. The recording was found in the basement archive of Rolling Stone writer Ralph Gleason. In 2011, Columbia Records released Bob Dylan's In Concert – Brandeis University 1963.

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Open and operating for over 25 years as a music venue, the basement of Cicero's has been instrumental in the development of alt-country music.

The band Uncle Tupelo (Jeff Tweedy, Jay Farrar, and Mike Heidorn) played many shows in the late 80s at Cicero's Basement Bar.

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In her track "Try Me", DeJ Loaf tells her audience some information about her personal life. She claims, "I ain't signing to no label, bitch I'm independent", and makes threats of retribution to those who "try [her]".
Watch quiet little Deja Trimble perform "Try Me" at her Fairview Manor residence.
And check out her debut album ...And See That's the Thing on Columbia Records.

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