
(Rosa Maria Koolhoven)
(Rosa Maria Koolhoven)
Another day, another nightclub shuttered. But this time it's one of the world's iconic dance clubs, FABRIC, whose license was permanently revoked after a marathon hearing before the ISLINGTON COUNCIL in LONDON TUESDAY night. "Silence all around," tweeted FACT MAGAZINE's APRIL CLARE WELSH after the stunning decision came down. "Ppl leaving the town hall, barely saying a word to each other." TWITTER wasn't so quiet. "I'm sick to my stomach," said the BLACK MADONNA. "London is being ruined right now," wrote FOUR TET. Reacting to a pair of drug-related deaths this summer, the council acted against one of the city's cultural treasures despite LONDON MAYOR SADIQ KHAN's pleas to save it and despite the club's reputation as a "beacon for best practice" regarding patron safety. At the hearing, the club offered to try using drug-sniffing dogs and even to lower the beats per minute of the music at its FRIDAY night parties. But police and council members said they had little confidence in the club's ability to implement serious safety measures, and a police superintendent said, "If the premises is permitted to remain open and operating in its current form, then there is a strong possibility that further drug-related deaths will occur"... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN opens up to VANITY FAIR about shrinks, surgery and his difficult dad in a great interview tied to his upcoming memoir (which is named for, among other things, his signature song, his signature album and the first good biography written about him, which was nearly 40 years ago. This is not a man who has ever let a good title go to waste). But the real news comes about 50 paragraphs into the piece, when we learn that his next record -- already recorded -- is a solo album inspired by the orchestral pop collaborations of GLEN CAMPBELL and JIMMY WEBB. Yes, please...Things that will definitely happen today: QUESTLOVE's PANDORA radio station, "QUESTLOVE SUPREME," will debut at 1 pm ET here... Things that will definitely not happen today: PANDORA will not announce its new subscription streaming service... Things that are unknowable: Whether APPLE will summarily kill the IPHONE headphone jack today... Another sign of the rockpocalypse, a visionary grasp of 21st century music distribution, or just a teasing promo for an album that they've probably already recorded? "Every interview we do these days asks us about a potential album," tweeteth the CHAINSMOKERS. "We always say we would love to but it's up to our fans if they want one." Don't let them down, Chainsmokers fans... STEVIE NICKS' dream for how to celebrate a HILLARY CLINTON, um, landslide: "I could gather together the DIXIE CHICKS, BILLY CORGAN and everybody who’s ever sung a version of 'Landslide.' It’s not up-tempo, but it certainly would get the message across"... RIP BUD ISAACS.