Live Earth Tickets

A Brazilian judge has canceled Saturday's Live Earth concert in Rio because police said they do not have enough officers to guarantee crowd safety.Organizers of the free show on Rio's Copacabana Beach said Wednesday they were trying to overturn the order to prevent Latin America from being left out of the worldwide music fest aimed at stopping global warming.

Promoted by former Vice President Al Gore, Live Earth concerts are scheduled for London; Tokyo; Johannesburg, South Africa; Shanghai, China; Sydney, Australia; and Hamburg, Germany; and East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Cartel Tickets

Atlanta-based power-pop band Cartel, who spent several weeks earlier this year sealed in a bubble recording a new album, have announced a tour in support of the self-titled disc. Cartel will make a handful of appearances at several Six Flags Amusement Parks and a few state fairs, as well as one House of Blues show in July and early August to warm up for the tour. The band will launch the tour August 20, the day before the release of their album, at the House of Blues in Chicago.

Cartel's latest single, Say Anything (Else) is featured on the Madden NFL 2007 soundtrack.

Smashing Pumpkins Tickets

The Smashing Pumpkins, who are wrapping up a residency at Orange Peel in Asheville, N.C., and preparing to start one at San Francisco's Fillmore, have announced dates for their first full scale tour of North America since 2000. The Smashing Pumpkins tour kicks off with a pair of festival performances (September 8 in Montreal and September 9 in Toronto), and will see the band hitting theatres and amphitheatres in the U.S. and Canada through November.

Stops on the schedule include The Pearl in Las Vegas (September 13), Bayside Amphitheatre in San Diego (September 19), Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver September 30.