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Briefly: Oasis, Stone Temple Pilots, Sting, Phil Lesh, Fred Schneider
Oasis has said that it intends to sue the promoters of Switzerland's Paleo Festival after organizers insulted the group for walking offstage during its set on Wednesday night (7/26). The band claimed that it had been continuously pelted with bottles while performing.
VH1.com will webcast a Stone Temple Pilots concert on Saturday (7/29).
Sting can't have the domain name www.sting.com, said the World Intellectual Property Organization. The name currently belongs to site devoted to games.
Phil Lesh is holding an eBay auction of tickets to his tour with Bob Dylan. Proceeds will benefit programs supporting music in schools.
Performers at the Republican National Convention include Brooks and Dunn, the Delfonics, Lee Greenwood, Chaka Khan, Jon Secada and Hank Williams, Jr.
Fred Schneider of the B-52s is encouraging people to boycott the Maine Lobster Festival, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Lobsters are traditionally cooked by being dropped in boiling water while still alive.
According to the Drudge Report, certain members of Congress are concerned about comments that Gerald Levin, chief executive of Time Warner, made at a media conference in Shanghai, where he seemed to bemoan "American cultural imperialism." A merger is pending between Time Warner and America Online. China is a really big market.
