Miley Cyrus Web site settles case with Pa.

Miley Cyrus Web site settles case with Pa.

PITTSBURGH — A Tennessee marketing firm is giving nearly 1,000 fans of pop singer Miley Cyrus free four-month extensions to their online fan club memberships in a deceptive-practices settlement with the state attorney general’s office.

Hundreds of Pennsylvanians complained to the attorney general when they couldn’t buy tickets during fan club pre-sales for Hannah Montana concerts in December 2007 at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia and January 2008 at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh.

The pre-sales were advertised as a perk of joining Cyrus’ Mileyworld.com Web site for a $29.95 yearly membership fee. The fan club continued advertising the perk even after blocks of tickets reserved for pre-sales were sold out, attorney general’s spokesman Nils Frederiksen said Thursday.

Jack White’s new band

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — No one can accuse Jack White of being lazy.

The rocker is already a member of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs, and now White says he’s formed a third band, The Dead Weather.

White announced the project Wednesday in Nashville and hosted a private party to hear the new CD and see a performance by the group. He says The Dead Weather’s debut album, “Horehound,” will be released in June on his Third Man record label.

Phoenix confronts fan at rap concert

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Joaquin Phoenix jumped off the stage during a short performance at the LIV nightclub early Thursday morning and confronted an audience member who was heckling him. Security guards dragged him back on stage and escorted him away.

It’s unknown whether the confrontation — and his pledge to quit acting and start rapping — was real or a put-on, but actor Casey Affleck recorded the performance on camera.

Hundreds of people packed the nightclub at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel after the doors opened at 10:30 Wednesday night. Phoenix came out on stage just before 2 a.m., smoking a cigarette and wearing a disheveled dark suit, sneakers and his scraggly long hair and beard. He began rapping to a beat played by the DJ and nodding to the music, although most of the lyrics were unintelligible.

Today’s birthdays

Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka is 70. Actor William H. Macy is 59. Bassist Adam Clayton of U2 is 49. Actress Annabeth Gish (“The West Wing,” “The X-Files”) is 38. Rapper Common is 37.