In Dave Matthews [ tickets ] Band news:

Widespread Panic will play sets at the band's Las Vegas shows on May 26 and 27.

The planned July 20 show in West Palm Beach, Fla., has been rescheduled for July 21. On July 20, the band instead will play at the National Car Rental Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

'NSync will perform at Detroit's Comerica Park on June 30, according to promoter SFX Productions. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Eastern Time on Saturday (3/24).

According to Wall of Sound, "Four teenage girls were crushed to death Sunday at a performance by British boy band A1 at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia"--the audience pushed forward when the band began playing.

Godsmack [ tickets ] is planning a summer amphitheater tour with fellow heavy rockers the Deftones [ tickets ], drummer Tommy Stewart said. Godsmack wraps up its tour with Staind, Cold and Systematic in early April and then visits Canada and Europe before returning to the United States. The band's latest album, "Awake" (Universal/Republic), sits at No. 69 on Billboard's top 200 chart.

A judge ruled on Friday (3/16) that LeAnn Rimes could not break her contract with Curb Records, Billboard reported. Her parents signed the contract in 1995, when Rimes was 12 years old.

Trace Adkins, Susan Ashton, John Berry, Terri Clark, Eric Heatherly, Sonya Isaacs, Lila McCann, Neal McCoy, Jamie O'Neal, Rascal Flatts, SHeDAISY, Sons of the Desert, Chalee Tennison, Pam Tillis, Trick Pony, Phil Vassar, Steve Wariner, Mark Wills, Lee Ann Womack and Chely Wright have been added to the 30th anniversary Fan Fair, to be held in downtown Nashville June 14-17.

According to a Pepsi press release, "On Sunday, Pepsi will offer an exclusive, full length, online look at Britney Spears' first Pepsi commercial two hours before it makes its worldwide broadcast debut during the Academy Awards."

Even if the fact that new commercials are now Events didn't depress us, we would still be depressed at the thought that there are people who can't wait two hours to see one.