This afternoon a care package composed of bandages, Band-Aids, aspirin, and Jack Daniels may be delivered to the hotel rooms of UK goth-punks the Horrors. Why? Because band frontman Faris Badwan was, as you may have heard, attacked onstage at Stereo in NYC last night. Originally it seemed like the incident wasn't a big deal, and Badwan was joking about the experience after the show. "I would never hit someone unless they hit me first. You should have seen his face afterwards," Badwan reportedly joked post-battle. But in truth the band was more shaken up than they let on, or at least their handlers were.

According to Sarah Lewitinn, head of Stolen Transmission, the band's US label, the Horrors may not play the rest of their CMJ shows. "I'm very concerned about the safety of the band and I'm considering pulling them out of the rest of their shows, except for the Stolen Transmission showcase on Thursday since I will be making sure there is a lot of security there for them," Lewitinn told us. Adding that she planned to send the band those aforementioned injury-soothing gift bags.

Theories are being battered about regarding what exactly inspired a collection of fans to get so aggressive with a relatively unknown band. Was it because everyone was drunk on pumpkin-flavored Jello shots, or are people generally jealous of a band with such great hair? Whatever it was, we might have to start one of those uber-fan petitions in which we urge the Horrors to soldier on. Halloween is over. Tonight we'll all be drunk on whiskey like normal hipsters. We promise to play nice.