Gene Turonis performs with the Tommy’s Talent Show house band at Maxwell’s final night under the current ownership.

Maxwell's is dead; long live Maxwell's.

Six months after the iconic Hoboken rock club and restaurant commemorated its “closing” with a gala block party and concert, the business has finally been sold. Word spread quickly on social media and Maxwell’s found itself packed with familiar faces on Sunday, the last night in its current incarnation, for a final, farewell wake.

The new owners will retain the name Maxwell’s but reconfigure the space to be a family restaurant specializing in thin-crust artisanal pizza.

“It’s not a wake to me, it’s a joyous celebration,” said Dave Post, who with his wife Jackie decided to renew the lease and took over the restaurant after co-owner and booker Todd Abramson bowed out last July.

Tom Vincent and “Tommy’s Talent Show,” a freeflowing hootenanny of Hoboken musicans, entertained in the front restaurant area, while a hastily assembled cabaret of former Maxwell’s employees performed in the back room.

Evan Dean and Pete Carr, the new owners, were in attendance and eager to share their plans for the space. “Hoboken is changing, and it’s time for Maxwell’s to change,” said Dean.

“It won’t be a pizzeria, but pizza will be a specialty,” Dean said. “We want to be local, friendly, and affordable. You can’t help but notice all the baby strollers on Washington Street these days. Those young families need a comfortable place to have dinner. And afterwards if people want to hang around a watch a game and have a beer, we’ll do that too.”

The back room will be converted to a dining room, but Dean said “that doesn’t exclude the possibility of live music. We’ll see how it goes. Obviously it won’t be a rock club anymore but we’ll definitely be open to the idea of having live entertainment.”

Dean and Carr said they were optimistic about keeping Maxwell’s current clientele and attracting a new generation of diner as well. “If you put out good product, and keep it affordable, people will come,” Dead said. “We want to keep the tradition of Maxwell’s but make it fit today’s Hoboken.”

Tom Vincent and “Tommy’s Talent Show” performs in front of a packed house at Maxwell’s final night.

Many of the same faces who participated in Maxwell’s farewell in July showed up for one final night on Sunday, including Glenn Morrow of Bar None Records, Hoboken director of cultural affairs Geri Fallo, and musicians like Bob Bert, Karyn Kuhl, and Bill Hamilton.

The entertainment in the front room went on for hours with what seemed like dozens of homegrown musicians taking a turn at the mic, including Gene “D. Plumber” Turonis and his daughter Emily, folksinger Dave Calamoneri, jazz great Julio Fernandez, Bianca Bob Miller, and an impromptu reunion of the Amazing Incredibles, with Dave Post on bass.

In the back room, John Ozed sang covers, Lois DiLivio and Rand Hoppe played old-timey music on ukulele and blatting trombone, and longtime waitresss Christine Repella - the only employee to have worked for all four Maxwell’s regimes - created electronic noise-rock with her group SbandM.

“The wake is finally over,” said Dave Calamoneri, who besides regularly performing at the club during its final years lives in one of the apartments above the restaurant. “It’s time to bury Maxwell’s for good.”

Anyone feel like pizza?