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Police shut down Black Bear Bar show, so EULA will play extra long Thursday (maybe tracks off their new 7")
As Ted Chase first told me, the Northside Festival showcase happening in the front room of what used to be Public Assembly (but is now called Black Bear Bar) was shut down by the police on Friday night, presumably due to noise…
Edie Brickell says she started it, all is good now...
Yesterday we mentioned the police-involved brawl between longtime lovers Paul Simon and Edie Brickell. Today CNN has an update:Singer-songwriter Paul Simon said Monday that he and wife Edie Brickell “had an argument” before they were arrested Saturday…
watch Trash Talk start a circle pit on the street outside Beerland, cops included (video & pics)
photos & video
Tyler the Creator wasn’t the only one upsetting the police in Austin this SXSW. His good friends in Trash Talk (who also played our Thursday day party at Red 7) were up to their usual hijinks and that included a Friday evening set outside Beerland on Red River that Tim came across as he was leaving the Friday BV Day party around 6pm…
Holy Ghost! touring this fall, including Terminal 5 on Halloween (dates); Juan Maclean & Juan Atkins DJing Cielo this week
Holy Ghost! at Williamsburg Park, 7/24/2013 (more by PSquared Photography)
Holy Ghost! opened for New Order last week at Williamsburg, and did pretty well with a big crowd I thought…
Bushwick Block Party 2013: Action Bronson, Pictureplane, double dutching, long lines, food, early shutdown (videos)
The Bushwick Block Party, presented and more. It was definitely quite the scene, with tons of people lining up to get into the packed event, which actually ended up being shut down early by c…
Chicago Mad Decent Block Party shut down early
people exiting Mad Decent Block Party (photo via daymine)
cops (photo via mulattobeats)
Though in Brooklyn it was due to the weather, like its NYC counterpart, Chicago’s Mad Decent Block Party was just shut down early…
Metallica issue public service announcement
Metallica, who will be performing the Black Album and Ride the Lightning (but not Master of Puppies) at their own Orion Festival in Atlantic City which is coming up soon (tickets are still on sale), recorded a PSA for the Virginia State Police, that you can watch below…
Wiz Khalifa busted for pot two times in two weeks
“Some musicians just bring marijuana to mind. Willie Nelson has never hidden his taste for it. And in the rap world Wiz Khalifa, the “Black and Yellow” rapper from Pittsburgh, has never been coy in his rhymes about his love of illegal smokes…
Narrows & Regents played Lamar Pedestrian bridge, but Darkest Hour/Sleepytime Trio didn't (pics/video)
All was quiet on Austin’s Lamar Pedestrian Bridge on the night of March 15th until around 2:15 AM. That’s when Narrows and Regents kicked off a pair of short sets to around 300 people, as part of a bill brought to you by BrooklynVegan & Chaos in Tejas…
Cake Shop shut down before forgetters could play
The Homewreckers @ Cake Shop (pre-bust) – 1/8/2010 (by Shawn Scallen)
Forgetters were scheduled to play a late show at Cake Shop on Saturday night, but the cops shut down the venue for being over capacity before they went on…
