1. L’Amour, Brooklyn NY
   
2. L’Amour East, Queens NY
   
3. L’Amour, Staten Island NY
   
4. Kingsborough CC, Brooklyn, NY
5. Sullivan Hall, NYC
   
6. Heat, NYC
   
7. Webster Hall, NYC
   
8. Wednesdays, NYC
   
9. Club Paradise, NYC
   
10. The Canal Room, NYC
    
11. The Gramercy Theatre, NYC
    
12. The Crash Mansion, NYC
    
13. Recoup Lounge, NYC
    
14. Hiro Ballroom, NYC
    
15. Irving Plaza, NYC
    
16. Stage 48, NYC
    
17. Santos Party House, NYC
    
18. Three Of Cups, NYC
    
19. The Cutting Room, NYC
    
20. Tammany Hall, NYC
    
21. UC Lounge, NYC
    
22. The Loft Brooklyn, NY
    
23. The Panic Room Brooklyn, NY
    
24. The Old Gallery Brooklyn, NY
    
25. Enigma, Brooklyn NY
    
26. The Cabaret, Brooklyn NY
    
27. The Rock N' Roll Cafe, Brooklyn NY
    
28. Diamonds, Brooklyn NY
    
29. Peggy O’Neils, Brooklyn, NY
    
30. Night Gallery, Brooklyn NY
    
31. C’est La Vie, Brooklyn NY
    
32. Wheelers, Brooklyn NY
    
33. Cherry’s, Brooklyn NY
    
34. Ruby’s, Brooklyn NY
    
35. The Foxy Den, Brooklyn NY
    
36. Ernie Barry’s, Brooklyn NY
    
37. Jays II, Brooklyn NY
    
38. Twice As Nice, Brooklyn NY
    
39. United Skates, 86th St Brooklyn NY
    
40. United Skates, Fort Hamilton Parkway Brooklyn NY
    
41. The Other Side, Brooklyn NY
    
42. One Elevens, Brooklyn NY
    
43. Gatsbys, Brooklyn NY
    
44. The Atomic Cafe, Brooklyn NY
    
45. Esplanade, Brooklyn NY
    
46. Animal Hall, Brooklyn NY
    
47. Tamaqua Club, Brooklyn NY
    
48. Rainbow Lounge, Brooklyn NY
    
49. Shining Star, Brooklyn NY
    
50. Wavelengths, Brooklyn NY
    
51. BMT, Brooklyn, NY
    
52. The Wicked Monk, Brooklyn NY
    
53. The Roadhouse, Brooklyn NY
    
54. No Quarter, Brooklyn NY
    
55. The Empty Mug, Brooklyn NY
    
56. Tattoo Shot Lounge, Brooklyn NY
    
57. The Paper Box, Brooklyn, NY
    
58. Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY
    
59. ThunderGround, Staten Island, NY
    
60. Arena, Staten Island, NY
    
61. The Wild Goose, Staten Island, NY
    
62. The Dugout, Staten Island, NY
    
63. The Mystic Lounge Staten Island, NY
    
64. Dock Street Underground, Staten Island, NY
    
65. Uncle Bourbon’s, Staten Island, NY
    
66. United Skates, Roosevelt Ave. Queens NY
    
67. Arena, Queens, NY
    
68. Lucky 13 Saloon, Brooklyn, NY
    
69. Revolution Amityville, NY
    
70. Mulcahy’s Wantagh, NY
    
71. The Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ
    
72. Dingbatz, Clifton, NJ
    
73. Pumps Wall, NJ
    
74. Snappers, Harrison, NJ
    
75. Lookers, Newark, NJ
    
76. The Cadillac Bar, Hoboken, NJ
    
77. Rockin' The Lake Festival, Pompton Lake, NJ
    
78. New Jersey Marathon Deal, NJ
    
79. The Cup Complex, Linden, NJ
    
80. Roxy N’ Dukes, Linden, NJ
    
81. Legendary Dobb’s, Philadelphia, PA
    
82. Rock Harvest Festival, MD
    
83. House of Rock, White Marsh, MD
    
84. The Doll House, Tampa, FL
    
85. Foxy, New Port Richey, FL
    
86. Bare Assets, Holiday, FL
    
87. Hedonism II, Negril Beach, Jamaica, W.I.
    
88. Club 516, Old Bridge, NJ
    
89. Terminal 5, NYC
    
90. Slake, NYC
    
91. B.B. King's Blues Bar & Grill, NYC
    
92. Saint Vitus, Brooklyn, NY
    
93. Paul's Tavern, Lake Como, NJ
    
94. Alamo Drafthouse, Winchester, VA
    
95. Baltimore Soundstage, Baltimore, MD
    
96. Upstate Concert Hall, Clifton Park, NY
    
97. Whisky A Go-Go, West Hollywood, CA
    
98. Jones Beach Ampitheatre, Wantagh, NY
    
99. Z-Two, Staten Island, NY
    
100. American Beauty, NYC
     
101. Amendment 18, Staten Island, NY
     
102. Bowery Electric, NYC
     
103. Sony Hall, NYC
     
104. Brooklyn Bazaar, Brooklyn, NY
     
105. Market Hotel, Brooklyn, NY
     
106. The Kingsland, Brooklyn, NY
     
107. The Brighton Bar, Long Branch, NJ
     
108. Amityville  Music Hall, Amityville, NY
     
109. Stereo Garden, Patchogue, NY
     
110. Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY
     
111. The Brooklyn Monarch, Brooklyn, NY
     
112. Garibaldi's, Milwaukee, WI
     
113. Reggie's, Chicago, IL
     
114. Packy's, Boca Raton, FL
     
115. Palladium Times Square, NYC
     
116. Brooklyn Bowl, Philadelphia, PA
     
117. 2300 Arena, Philadelphia, PA
     
118. Sovereign, Brooklyn, NY
     
119. Spotlight at the Paramount, Huntington, NY
     
120. 89 North, Patchogue, NY
     
121. White Eagle Hall, Jersey City, NJ
     
122. Hill Country, NYC
     
123. The Wonder Bar, Asbury Park, NJ
     
124. The Kraken, Chapel Hill, NC
     
125. Arizona Pete's Greensboro, NC
     
126. Big Nose Kate's, Staten Island, NY
     
127. The Meadows, Brooklyn, NY
     
128. Spirit, Pittsburgh, PA
     
129. Bar Anticipation, Lake Como, NJ
     
130. The Starland Ballroom, Sayerville, NJ
     
131. The Meca, Swindon, United Kingdom
     
132. Piere's Entertainment Center, Fort Wayne IN
     
133. Luppolo in Rock, Cremona, Italy
     
134. Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn NY
     
135. The Vogel, Red Bank, NJ
     
136. Century Music Hall, Fort Wayne, Indiana
     
137. Chapel Of Bones, Raleigh, North Carolina
     
138. Maeke-Blyde, Poperinge, Belgium
     
139. Atlantic Events, Barcelona, Spain
     
140. Agriplex Arena, Millet, Alberta, Canada
     
141. Deviant Libation, Tampa, Florida
     
142. The Liberty Belle Cruise Ship, NYC
     

VENUES

...“The Artist is a Warrior. He Must Fight.” 
                                                 ― Moebius

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York DJ Alex Kayne started out as a teenage mobile DJ spinning dance music in 1976. His club DJ career began in1979 when he beat a multitude of other DJs, winning a borough-wide turntablist "Battle of the DJs" mixing contest at the Night Gallery Discothèque in Brooklyn. Word on the street about the winner of this battle spread quickly and Kayne began getting a lot of work, DJ-ing in several local clubs.

Kayne was a popular radio DJ at Kingsborough Community College's Rock station WKRB-FM. During his two year tenure from 1978 to 1980, under the pseudonym "Dr. Smoke", he was the only DJ to receive fan mail on a regular basis.

Over the years, he has worked at various venues large and small from New York City to Europe and beyond. He is widely considered to be New York City's first ever heavy metal club/venue DJ. 

Alex Kayne first came to the as then unknown but future world famous Heavy Metal Venue L'Amour as a regular in 1978. He was close friends with Mike Pace and Danny Pucciarelli, the resident disco/dance DJs working there. His Metal DJ residency started in December 1981, solidified in March of 1982, and ran continuously until October of 1984. Subsequently he worked at L'Amour East in Queens, and at L'Amour Brooklyn again on and off until the Brooklyn venue closed in 2004 and was the only DJ at the L'Amour Staten Island spinoff club from 2006 to 2009. During his early tenure as L'Amour's original metal DJ, his raspy, booming voice and more importantly his collection of early metal records coupled with a unique brand of hard rock and heavy metal spinning style gave the venue its unrivaled personality, directly contributing to the venue's worldwide fame while elevating the club’s prestige among the burgeoning metal sector. 

He is widely credited as the first club DJ in New York to spin Metallica, Accept, Biohazard, Y&T, The Rods, TNT, Queensryche, Anthrax, Raven, Anvil, Megadeth, Manowar, White Lion, Helix, Talas, Motorhead, Bodine, Baron Rojo, Girlschool, Metal Church, Tygers of Pan Tang, and Slayer among many others, breaking and expanding their notoriety on the east coast. Kayne is considered an influence by younger local rock/metal DJs, and is an early New York VJ influence, one of the earliest to meld horror film clips with heavy metal music on the big video screen at L'Amour. 
With a career spanning 47 years, including live performances stretching across 142 venues, spinning on the same bill supporting bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Iron Maiden, Rob Halford, Anvil, Raven, Twisted Sister, Biohazard, Type O Negative, Lacuna Coil, Kiss, Ace Frehley, Exodus, Kix, Queensryche, Warrant, Bullet Boys, Overkill, Ratt, Warrior Soul, King's X, Winery Dogs, Winger, Stryper, Life of Agony, Manowar, White Lion, Motorhead, Mayhem, Dark Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Decapitated, and dozens more, DJ Alex Kayne continues working the U.S. Eastern Seaboard club and concert venue scene, where he is highly regarded and respected among rock and heavy metal DJs. Kayne continues to keep the spirit of L'Amour alive and keeps the metal fires burning, spinning metal to the masses, breaking new bands as well as honoring rock and metal's old guard.

Recent live appearances include The Jones Beach Ampitheatre, The Stone Pony, The Gramercy Theatre, Stage 48, B.B. King's Blues Club, Sony Hall, Irving Plaza, Terminal 5, the Brooklyn Paramount, the new Saint Vitus, and The Palladium Times Square. He has performed at Metal Festivals in Italy, Belgium, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain.

In 2019, Alex Kayne joined the staff of streaming music station GIMME RADIO which morphed into GIMME METAL. The station had nearly 200,000 paid subscribers. He produced 98 episodes before Gimme went out of business in April of 2023. His Tuesday afternoon show called "The Slaughterhouse" was one of the top shows on the station. The radio show continues today as Kayne took it independent and it now runs on its own website.

​DJ Alex Kayne is a music connoisseur on a continuing mission to keep L'Amour and Heavy Metal alive and kickin', and to bring back respect and recognition to an endangered species - the Rock/Metal Club DJ. 

Catch DJ Alex Kayne's Radio show "The Slaughterhouse©"

at slaughterhouseradio.com choose from the continuous 24/7 station, or select individual interviews and episodes.

HISTORY