Help Out Your Poor Impoverished Brethren
Helping out your fellow hack is a good thing…
***Just added: Murray Hill and the World Famous *BOB* to host, Crossover
to perform special late night set!!***
Jason Loewenstein (of Sebadoh), Northern State, Supagroup, and DJs
Eugene Hutz (of Gogol Bordello), Fancy (of Fannypack), and Tommie
Sunshine to perform at Village Voice Union Strike Fund Benefit!
Village Voice Strike Fund Benefit
Wednesday, June 22, doors at 8 p.m., $10
Rothko; 116 Suffolk Street @ Rivington Street; 212-475-7088
Members of the Village Voice union (Local 2110 UAW), which includes the
paper’s writers and editors as well as the art, production, sales, and
classified staff, are about to enter into contract negotiations with
management. The contract expires at midnight on June 30, and if
management refuses to meet the union’s modest demands for fair raises
and improved benefits, Voice union members will be forced to go on
strike on July 1.
On Wednesday, June 22, Voice union members are hosting an eclectic night
of musical entertainment. Donating their time and talents are Sebadoh’s
Jason Loewenstein, who is currently recording the follow-up to his
critically acclaimed solo debut, At Sixes and Sevens (Sub Pop); the
beloved Beastie-influenced local female hip-hop trio Northern State; New
Orleans’s own over-the-top AC/DC worshippers Supagroup, who will blast
the night off with a short, early set before running up the street to
CBGB for another show; Fancy, Svengali behind the astoundingly
jump-ropable Brooklyn booty-brat rap threesome Fannypack; mad Ukrainian
genius Eugene Hutz, whose Eastern European-American combo Gogol Bordello
are on the verge of releasing their new Gypsy Punks: Underground World
Strike; and Tommie Sunshine, legendary house DJ extraordinaire.
The nice folks at the fast-rising L.E.S. club Rothko have offered their
space free of charge to the Voice union for the event. All proceeds from
the door will benefit the union’s strike fund, which will provide
financial help for union members in the event that there is a strike. If
there is no strike, the money will be held until the next union
negotiations.
