TUPAC SHOT

Rapper/actor Tupac Shakur is in critical condition after being attacked Saturday night in Los Vegas. He and a record executive were attacked on their en route to a nightclub following the Tyson-Seldon fight when a car pulled up alongside them at an intersection and opened fire. Both Tupac and Death Row Records' Marion "Suge" Knight are expected to survive. No arrests had been made at press time. Source:Jam

HEY HEY WE'RE THE MUTTONS

In the strange-but-true dept: Brit-boys Supergrass are currently working on and slated to star in a Monkees-like tv show to be produced by Steven Spielberg! No word on the 'when's of the sitcom, but as to the 'why's, the head mutton-man Gaz Coombes admitted that his motivation was absolute visibility. Source: Sleaze

RIDE BREAKS UP

Oxford ambient outfit Ride have broken up, after six years together. Die-hard fans need not mourn too heavily, however, as singer/songwriter Mark Gardener and wife Ida plan to continue recording under their current contract with East/West Records.

TRUSTED BY CANADIANS

Vancouver quartet 54.40 have just gone gold with their recent release Trusted By Millions. In spite of the fact that the U.S. don't give a Hootie about them, the band departed this past weekend on yet another destined-for-sellout concert series across Canada. The Western leg of the tour will find the band headlining a bill which features Screaming Trees as their opening act (!).

POUR SOME MALTED ON ME

It was nothing short of a comedy of errors at the most recent Blind Date this weekend in Edmonton. After a relatively successful series of 'you-don't-know- who's-playing-till-they-hit-the-stage' gigs put on by (*burp*) Molson, the company blew it big time this past Saturday, disappointing fans with a Def Leppard performance. It wasn't the band that the crown minded so terribly as much as the fact that the Brit rrrrockers were playing a full-on concert in town the following day! The crowd let their anger be known the only way you'd expect at freebie event: by getting drunk and throwing beer at the band! Frontman Joe Elliot blew up at one particular bottle-thrower, yelling "I will tear your head off, shit down your neck, then we'll report you to the cops and you'll go to jail!" You go, girl! Source:Jam

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