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538 Johnson looking for help, hosting benefit show w/ Dawn of Humans, Pharmakon, Ivy & more on Sunday

538 Johnson for The Men in 2011 (more by Keith Marlowe)
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Looks like there’s some trouble for Bushwick DIY venue 538 Johnson. They posted:

Surprise, surprise our landlords at 538 don’t love us. They recently hit us with a bunch of wild and crazy fines that added up to an exorbitant amount of money. Pretty shady stuff. Unfortunately the only way we can keep the space is to pay them, and we need some help from “the scene.” 538 has been hosting some pretty good shows for quite some time. We want you to be able to keep trashing our home. Hallway punks forever, please come support.

The venue, that’s housed early NYC gigs for The Men, Merchandise, White Lung, The Menzingers and many others, will be hosting a benefit show this Sunday (9/21) with wild punks Dawn of Humans, melodic noise artist Pharmakon, hardcore crew Missionary, garagey punks Ivy, and Cheena.

Later this fall, Pharmakon also plays a record release show for Bestial Burden on November 22 at Palisades. Tickets for that show are still available.

You can catch Ivy again on October 11 at Acheron with Warthog, Bad Noids, Party Plates and Mr. California (tickets); and October 25 at Palisades with Hank Wood and the Hammerheads, Blazing Eye, Savageheads, L.O.T.I.O.N. and Face the Rail (tickets). If you haven’t heard Ivy’s new self-titled LP on Katorga Works you can download it for free HERE and order the vinyl HERE.

Stream one track below…

Ivy – “Arch-Foe”