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Williamsburg bar and venue Union Pool will be closed tonight (7/1) and Saturday (7/2), after a 5-alarm fire ripped through neighboring buildings early Friday morning…

Including select Live Nation dates from Wu-Tang Clan and Nas, Interpol and Spoon, Bon Iver, Devo, Jason Isbell, The Who, The Killers, Kraftwerk, Elvis Costello, and more.

”The building sustained significant damage and it’s safe to say we will be closed for a notable amount of time,” the Bushwick club writes.

Murray is fine, and in happier news his “A Very Murray Christmas“ holiday revue returns to Joe’s Pub in December.

Firefighters found two people in the burning building, a 37-year-old man who was tragically pronounced dead upon his arrival at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, and a 22-year old woman who was in critical condition.

Thankfully no one was injured in a fire that started in Terminal 5’s storage room on Thursday night.

Soundgarden, Hole, Steve Earle, and the estates of Tom Petty and Tupac Shakur are suing Universal Music Group over materials lost in the 2008 UMG warehouse fire that, according to the suit, was never disclosed to them.

”Music preservation is of the highest priority for us and we are proud of our track record” says a Universal Music Group statement.

When Bonnaroo returns for its 2019 edition from June 13-16, it’ll be without one of its iconic landmarks.

Riverside County fire department said that the fire was caused by a “mechanical failure of the heating unit used for water” for the showers.