Madonna [ tickets ] will give a phone interview to VH1 on Wednesday (8/2). She will also premiere her new video for the song "Music."

In the San Francisco area with the KISS tour, Ted Nugent [ tickets ] went to a Neiman Marcus store on Sunday (7/30), where an anti-fur protester threatened to kill Nugent during his next hunting trip. The protester was arrested.

Adult video company Vivid Video is sponsoring Unwritten Law [ tickets ] on its next tour. Vivid says that it is continuing its "juggernaut into mainstream entertainment," which is hard to argue with.

Matt Goyer and John Carmie, students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, have set up Fairtunes.com, a site that collects money for artists whose music is being traded online without compensation. Webnoize reported that the site has raised about $84.

Downloadable music site Emusic and file-trading site Napster have been discussing a possible joint venture, according to Reuters.

Launch reported that jethrotull.com and jethro-tull.com are now the property of the band Jethro Tull [ tickets ], and not of a Florida man who tried to sell the names to the band for $13,000. The World Intellectual Property Organization made the ruling after frontman Ian Anderson filed suit.