So you won’t be able to see Oasis play at Terminal 5 tonight—that’s thanks to the injuries Noel Gallagher sustained last weekend at the hands of this idiot. But if you happen to find yourself at any of these subway stops this afternoon—including Grand Central, Times Square, Penn Station, and Astor Place—you can listen to a handful of tunes from the band’s new album Dig Out Your Soul performed by a troupe of hardy MTA-approved buskers. Oasis will be teaching 30 New York street musicians this morning how to play "The Turning," "Bag it Up," "(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady," and the new single "The Shock of the Lightning" from their seventh long-player, due out October 7. Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails give their music away for free—Oasis forces you to play it!  read more »

Sometimes people get what they deserve. Let those people be Noel and Liam Gallagher and let them be in a once-glorious, then coke-addled, now doggedly-irrelevant Britpop band called Oasis.
 
That anyway was our initial reaction to the news yesterday that the band’s performance Sunday night at Toronto’s Virgin Festival was rudely interrupted when some dude—geeking out to the dulcet tones of “Morning Glory”—ran from behind the band and bushwhacked Noel right off the stage. The assailant then lunged at Liam, got smothered in a sea of hired biceps, before finally being dragged away as Liam, barely restrained, tried to punch the guy in the face.  read more »