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DFA1979 played Beauty Bar Saturday, chaos ensued, police rode their horses into people, etc..

Death From Above 1979 did in fact play a 1am SXSW show on Saturday night, and it happened at Beauty Bar. Things got a little chaotic though thanks to the venue being small and there being an alley in the back where people could watch/listen from behind a fence…

electrical problems & then police show up @ sunn O)))/Boris

“Sunn O))) broke the Brooklyn Masonic Temple”. –juddgreenstein “power problem sideswipes #sunn #Boris #altar show. Band breaks character, lifts hoods and asks audience 10 mins to straighten out” –Robert Chow “Power outage@ Brooklyn masonic temple: praying to the doom metal gods: let sunn o))) & Boris finish” –thejass “Sunn 0))) blew the power to the Masonic temple…

more pics from Outside Lands (where fans crashed through a fence to get in) (videos of that too)

“You ready for some Grateful Dead action after this?” asked singer Julian Casablancas early in the Stokes set, referring to Furthur, the band led by the Dead’s Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, already in progress at the eastern edge of the polo field…

while police are looking into what happened @ the Seaport, Paper Magazine planning a free Kesha show there

people waiting for Drake @ The Seaport (more by Leia Jospe)”The police are looking into the causes of the rowdy scene at South Street Seaport in Manhattan on Tuesday night when a way-overcapacity crowd turned out for a free concert by the rapper Drake and the pop band Hanson…

too many people showed up to see Drake & Hanson @ the Seaport - show shut down by police

“Had to cancel the free NYC show today because of a crazy audience that was braking things at the mixing board. -Z” – Hanson (about 7:20 pm) “Police are shutting down the show at South Seaport…

Market Hotel going dark, upcoming shows being relocated

Market Hotel (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)”so…. Market Hotel got into some police trouble. What does this mean? Hard to tell. Places have survived such things before, including Market Hotel, but every situation is different and we will have to wait and see…

city paying 1.25 million to man wrongly jailed for shooting Palladium nightclub bouncer

The city will pay $1.25 million to a man who spent 14 years behind bars before being cleared in the notorious murder of a bouncer at the former Palladium nightclub…

Lollapalooza 2009 - Day 1 in Pictures

The gray skies grew darker Sunday in Chicago when a man allegedly punched a horse as the Lollapalooza music festival drew to a close. Pablo Fernandez, a 21-year-old Mexican national, is accused of approaching a Chicago police horse at around 9 p…

chaos at HARD Fest LA causes shut down - people broke in, climbed over balconies, etc (VIDEOS) --- refunds available

“Inglewood police dispatched a riot unit, and by 1:25 a.m. Sunday, more than 17,000 attendees had been sent home.” –LA Times Balcony climbin’ @ Hard Summer ’09 in L…

the Brooklyn election night police clash aftermath

election night in Williamsburg (more by Ryan Muir)”Dozens of hipsters — and the old-timers who resent them — stormed a community meeting on Monday night, showing the ongoing clash of cultures that collided when people flooded the streets after Barack Obama’s election win on Nov…
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