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Nas’s concert at London’s Brixton Academy was cut short Monday night when a gun-toting audience member fired two rounds into the venue’s ceiling during the rapper’s set, leading concertgoers to rush for the exits, according to a Scotland Yard spokesperson. Louise Kovacs, a spokesperson for the venue, said no one was reported injured.
The concert was shut down immediately. More than 40 police were dispatched to the South London venue and recovered a pair of bullets and their casings, according to the Scotland Yard spokesperson, who described the suspected gunman as a black male. No arrests have been made, but an investigation into the shooting by the London Metropolitan Police is ongoing.
Several witnesses who spoke to the BBC wondered how a gun could have been smuggled past the more than 100 security staff on hand. The Brixton Academy statement says the venue always “operates high levels of security,” and confirms that “over 100 security personnel were present” during the concert, “with secure cordons across the building and eight metal detectors on site for full security checks and searches upon entry.”
The venue’s management is also conducting its own investigation into the shooting, according to the statement.
Excerpted from MTV.com
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After two years of scattered recording sessions – and two weeks of Metallica-style group therapy – Weezer have finally finished their fifth album. “It took a long-ass time,” drummer Pat Wilson says of “Make Believe,” which hits stores Tuesday, May 10th.
Blame the delay on Rivers Cuomo’s periodic semesters at Harvard – where the thirty-four-year-old frontman continues to pursue an undergraduate degree – and on his frequent dissatisfaction with his own songs. “I think Rivers was pretty emotionally divorced from our last two records,” says Wilson of 2001′s Green Album and 2002′s “Maladroit.” “You can totally hear it. It sounds like we’re just kind of stoned out, like a Seventies rock band who tours all the time.”
The first single, “Beverly Hills,” is one of Weezer’s best-ever pop songs, combining heavy guitar crunch with a melody Wilson says has a “Steve Miller vibe.” Its video, shot at the Playboy Mansion, is in the quirky tradition of the Happy Days-themed “Buddy Holly” clip. The probable second single, “We Are All on Drugs,” has a pop-metal vibe that evokes Def Leppard.
Weezer will support the release of “Make Believe” with a North American tour beginning April 26th in Vancouver.
Excerpted from RollingStone.com
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Oasis have announced that they will be touring the US through September and October this year.
Support for the dates will come from Jet and Kasabian. The first show to go up on sale with the three band line-up is in Houston, Texas which marks the first time Oasis have returned to the city in seven years.
The group will headline the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion on Sunday, September 25.
Oasis have already sold out their Wednesday, June 22 gig at New York’s Madison Square Garden and are set to perform at the Hollywood Bowl on Monday, September 12.
Oasis will release their sixth studio album “Don’t Believe The Truth” on Tuesday, May 31 and a new single “Lyla” will precede it on Tuesday, May 17.
Excerpted from NME.com
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Nine Inch Nails has drafted Photek and DFA to remix tracks from the group’s upcoming album, “With Teeth,” due May 3 via Interscope. Photek has remixed first single “The Hand That Feeds,” while it is unknown what tracks DFA has tackled.
“I met Rupert [Parkes of Photek] during the mixing of ‘With Teeth.’ I’ve always loved his work and [he] was the first person I thought of when the top of remixing came up,” NIN’s Trent Reznor wrote on the band’s official Web site. He added that DFA is “doing the most interesting production work out there, in my opinion.”
Reznor also revealed that “With Teeth” will be available as both a regular CD and a DualDisc, the latter of which will feature “higher resolution stereo mixes as well as surround mixes I was involved in.” The video for “The Hand That Feeds” will also be included.
Excerpted from Billboard.com
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