Depeche Mode, Tool, the Killers, Jane’s Addition, Beastie Boys, and Kings of Leon will headline the 2009 Lollapalooza Festival, the event’s promoters announced Tuesday. Lou Reed, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Thievery Corporation, Snoop Dogg, and Rise Against are among the more than 100 performers now confirmed for the event, to be held Aug. 7-9 at Chicago’s Grant Park.   

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It seems that Britney and her crew have an aversion to pot and cigarette smoking Canadians. After just 3 songs into her Circus concert in Vancouver the stage went dark and baffled and confused fans started chanting and boo-ing for more than a half hour.

Then a female voice announcing to the crowd, “The building is awfully smoky. It is uncomfortable for everyone on stage, including Ms. Spears. Please extinguish all cigarettes – this is a non-smoking building, and the show will resume when the smoke on the stage is cleared,” reported the Vancouver Sun.

Several people were quoted as saying that between the sudden retreat of the pop star and the lousy piped in intermission music, the concert was ruined for most fans.

Once Britney did return, she performed “Me Against the Music,” followed by “Everytime” during which she asked the crowd “What’s up, Vancouver?” before she left the stage again, 90 seconds before the end of the song.

The concert concluded with Spears singing “Womanizer” and advising the still-restless crowd, “Vancouver, don’t smoke weed.”

After the show ended, a statement was posted on Britney’s Web site: “We want to apologize to all the fans who attended our Vancouver show tonight for the brief pause in Britney’s set. Crew members above the stage became ill due to a ventilation issue.”

Don’t mess with Tim McGraw.

Sure, stopping a concert and asking someone to give back the ring they just pulled off your fingerseemed kinda hard-core at the time. But last night at a show in Washington, McGraw yanked a fan out of the crowd after seeing the man rough up a female concertgoer. The crooner initially called for security to get things under control, but after a few lagging seconds decided to get ‘er done himself. (Sorry.)

In a statement, the singer’s rep said, “While Tim was performing at the White River Amphitheater in Auburn, Wash., last night, he watched a man rush to the front of the stage. This overly aggressive fan attacked a female fan and Tim witnessed this incident.”

And McGraw didn’t approve. The country star grabbed what looks like a Cops extra onto the stage and effortlessly tossed him aside. From our vantage point, security was restraining the fan for his own protection—not Tim’s.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b144177_tim_mcgraw_lays_down_law.html

You guys knew I had to do it!!! Only 37 Days until I get to see you up close and personal George! Whoot!!