New York City Cops Shut Down Haywire’s Times Square Pop-Up

Boston hardcore band Haywire became underground heroes by playing endless numbers of wild live shows. They maintain an insanely busy touring schedule, and they've also got a habit of playing guerrilla-style sets in places where bands don't usually play, or jumping on smaller regional shows at the last minute. But when Haywire tried to play a pop-up set in the middle of Times Square, the NYPD wasn't having it.Earlier this month, Haywire released I Don't Wanna Say Goodbye, their second album and their first for bigger label Roadrunner. They've already made crazy videos for the singles "Interstate Love Affair" and "Sincerely Yours," and their Times Square set was supposed to be a shoot for another video. The band reportedly announced the set on Instagram story just an hour before it was supposed to take place on Wednesday night, posting a photo of the location and its longitude and latitude coordinates. A few hundred fans and friends showed up for some mosh madness, but the band only played a song and a half before police stormed in and shut everything down.Per Setlist.fm, Haywire got through a performance of the I Don't Wanna Say Goodbye track "Flex Your Head," then launched into the...