538 Johnson

This Mortal Coil’s three highly influential records — 1984’s ’It’ll End in Tears,’ 1986’s ’Filigree & Shadow,’ and 1991’s ’Blood’ — have been out of print, physically, for years but are all getting deluxe reissues by 4AD in October…

538 Johnson for The Men in 2011 (more by Keith Marlowe) Looks like there’s some trouble for Bushwick DIY venue 538 Johnson. They posted:Surprise, surprise our landlords at 538 don’t love us…

The second annual NYC punk/hardcore festival New York’s Alright went down last month (April) with shows at various venues, including the recently-opened Bushwick venue The Wick, which we’re highlighting today…

DOWNLOAD: Blessed State – 2012 Demo (ZIP) Northampton, MA punks Blessed State (whose lineup includes Brian of Iron Hand) recall the time when bands like Husker Du and The Replacements were pushing hardcore punk to its limits and coming out with something more similar to alternative r…

WIERD , 538 Johnston videos Merchandise played their second of three packed NYC shows last night at 538 Johnson (9/13), this time joined by drummer Elsner Nino (ex-Pollution, current Shoxx) behind the kit and support from Shoxx as well as Worshit, Nuclear Spring, and Herzog Rising…

The Men are now on the road after playing 538 Johnson last night (8/4) with an Brain F, Nomos, Only The Messengers, and Face The Rails. If you missed them, their next Brooklyn show is at Saint Vitus with Pygmy Shrews and Vaz on 9/17 after the tour…

Richmond’s Government Warning played their final two NYC shows back on 2/19 – first at Cake Shop (which we already posted a set of pictures from), and then at 538 Johnson later that night…

While I was watching a man beat another with a pizza box, Boston hardcore band Brain Killer played a pair of shows as part of a memorial in honor of Nick Poot, the first of which hit Tommy’s Tavern on Jan 15th with Nomad, Earthpig, State of Decline & Longpigs (some pics are over at show booker Undead’s site)…

Mob 47 and Parasytic played Europa on Wednesday (11/10) as part of a string of dates for the pair and part of a larger East Coast tour for Mob 47…

While dodging a string of lit Black Cats, half of an orange, warm Pabst Blue Ribbon spray, not to mention an entire room of swarming and rabid hardcore fans, Inmates played 538 Johnson on 9/18 as support for Japanese hardcore killers Systematic Death…