A Stabbing, and a Feud About a Band.

The violence that erupted during a music festival at Webster Hall in the East Village on Friday night lasted just a few minutes, but apparently it had been brewing for some time. When it was over, Michael Couls, the bass player of the Cro-Mags, an influential New York hard-core punk band, had been slashed with a knife, and one of the band's founders, Harley Flanagan, was under arrest after being caught by security, witnesses said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]