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Alice in Chains are promising to play their classic hits and new tracks from Black Gives Way to Blue on a North American tour that starts February 2nd in Vancouver. Tickets for the trek — which stretches until late March — go on sale December 4th and 5th.

“We have never worked this fucking hard on a record,” guitarist Jerry Cantrell told RS before the release of Blue. “It’s a hell of a challenge to try to add to a legacy. It takes a big set of fucking balls — four sets of balls — to take on a challenge like this, and we did it for the same reasons we made music before. We care about it, we respect what we did, and we also respect the fact that we want to continue to make music with each other, so there’s a certain level that it has to live up to.”

Check out all the band’s tour dates after the jump. (more…)

Michael Bublé promises to spread Crazy Love throughout the U.S. starting in March 2010, Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto returns to the States for another tour and Four Tet plot out February club shows in support of their first album in four years, There Is Love in You. Full dates for all three treks below. (more…)

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Motion City Soundtrack embark on a headlining trek in support of their major label debut My Dinosaur Life, the Magnetic Fields plans some Realism dates starting in February 2010 and 3OH!3 wrap up their successful 2009 with a homestate show in Denver on December 19th. Full dates for all three tours, after the jump. (more…)

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In what is no doubt the loudest trek this winter, Slayer and Megadeth embark on the American Carnage tour, marking the first time in over 20 years the heavy metal masters have assaulted ears together as co-headliners (Testament will also go along for the ride). Also, Hot Chip plot out a handful of April 2010 dates in support of their upcoming album One Life Stand and the Deftones have scheduled two special benefit gigs to raise money for the Chi Ling Cheng Special Needs Trust — a group that helps pay medical bills for their bassist, who was severely injured in a car crash last November. For all the dates, check below. (more…)

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Fresh off their triumphant three-night stand at Indio, California’s Festival 8, the reunited Phish have announced plans to play their first New Year’s Eve concert since 2003 when they take over Miami’s American Airlines Arena for a four-night residency December 28th-31st. The New Year’s Eve show will be a three-set extravaganza at the same Miami arena where Phish and their Phans last rung in the New Year together six years ago. Phish also celebrated the dawn of the new millennium in the Sunshine State with a festival in Big Cypress, Florida on December 30th and 31st, 1999.

Check out photos from Festival 8.

The online ticket request period for Phish’s Miami shows is going on right now over at the band’s official Website, with the public onsale date scheduled for November 21st. As Rolling Stone reported from Indio two weekends ago, Phish resurrected an old Halloween tradition by performing another artist’s album — in this year’s case, the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street — in its entirety. The Vermont foursome followed that October 31st performance with their first-ever acoustic set the very next day. (more…)

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Just hours after Jay-Z joined U2 onstage in Berlin at the MTV European Music Awards, Jigga announced dates for the second leg of his Blueprint 3 tour. Jay-Z still has four more shows left on his run on college campuses in November, but he’ll return to the road in 2010 starting February 22nd in Houston, Texas.

If you’re looking at the tour dates and wondering where’s all the New York love from the “Empire State of Mind” rapper — even though Jay has performed at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, a tiny DJ Hero concert and Yankee Stadium in the past few months — don’t fret: Information about shows in Uniondale, New York and neighboring East Rutherford, New Jersey will be announced soon, as will dates for concerts in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Detroit, Michigan.

Speaking of “Empire State of Mind,” MTV reports that Jay-Z will contribute a new verse for “Part 2″ of his and Alicia Keys’ BP3 smash, with the new version featuring own Keys’ upcoming album The Element of Freedom, out in December. (more…)

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John Mayer plots out the proper attack plan for his Battle Studies tour, choosing February 8th in Charleston, South Carolina as the launch site. Plus, catch today’s Breaking band La Roux on the road in early ‘10 and Miike Snow announce a spring jaunt. Full dates for all three treks, after the jump. (more…)

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Dashboard Confessional have canceled their autumn tour behind new album After the Ending due to a unspecified family issue. “We don’t take this lightly, but family has to come first,” Chris Carrabba and Co. said in a statement. “We apologize to everyone who planned on coming to the shows. We will find a way to make it up to you.”

In other tour news, Mission of Burma will hit the road on the strength of new LP The Sound The Street The Light and Papa Roach announce the beginnings of a co-headlining trek with Shinedown. Full dates below: (more…)

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band canceled their scheduled performance last night in Kansas City, Missouri, after the band’s assistant road manager Lenny Sullivan was found dead in his hotel room. Sullivan, who was also Springsteen’s cousin, was only 36. “Due to a death in Bruce’s immediate family, tonight’s show at Sprint Center has been unavoidably canceled. All tickets will be refunded at the point of purchase. Bruce and The Band deeply appreciate the understanding of our Kansas City audience and look forward to returning at the earliest opportunity,” reads a statement on Springsteen’s official Website. Rolling Stone confirmed the death with a Springsteen spokesperson last night.

Sullivan had served as the band’s assistant road manager for the past 10 years. “A warm and sensitive person, he was beloved by Bruce, the Band, the crew, and the entire Thrill Hill family,” the Springsteen Website posted yesterday. According to KMBC-TV Kansas City, a Springsteen rep said Sullivan was found dead in his room at the InterContinental Hotel at the Plaza. The cause of death has not yet been released, but police investigating Sullivan’s death say it is not suspicious. (more…)

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Cold War Kids hit the road for four shows in January 2010 in support of their upcoming EP Behave Yourself, out January 19th. Plus, the Joe Perry Project, the solo endeavor by the Aerosmith guitarist, schedules two handfuls of dates in November and recent Breaking artist and New Moon soundtrack stars Band of Skulls embark on a tour with Metric. Full dates for all three artists, after the jump. (more…)

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Hours after broadcasting their 360° Tour stop at California’s Rose Bowl to the entire world via a YouTube live stream, U2 announced plans to bring “The Biggest Rock Show Ever” back to North America in 2010. Last night’s Rose Bowl gig was the band’s final concert in the states on this leg of the 360° Tour, but YouTube has promised to rebroadcast the full show and the band has confirmed they’ll return with their innovative stage dubbed “the Spaceship” in June.

U2’s 360° Tour: photos of the band’s opening night.

Twelve concerts have been announced for the band’s next North American trek, including a performance at Chicago’s Soldier Field — where the band launched its U.S. leg earlier this year — and a July 19th stop at New York’s New Meadowlands Stadium. (more…)

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Bon Jovi launches his 2010-2011 world tour February 19th in Seattle, Washington, scheduling two nights at the New Meadowlands Stadium along the way. Plus, Gregg Allman embarks on a solo trek without the Brothers and Hawthorne Heights hit the road in support of Skeletons. Full dates for all three jaunts, after the jump. (more…)

It didn’t take long for Lady Gaga to recover after her Fame Kills Tour — a joint trek with Kanye West she tells Rolling Stone was going to “keep the momentum going in terms of pop music staying innovative with hip-hop and R&B” — was canceled earlier this month. Just two weeks later she announced plans for The Monster Ball, a “pop-electro opera” that launches November 27th.

Details about the trek are scarce, but after debuting new song “Bad Romance” on Saturday Night Live and shooting a video for the track that she calls “so amazing,” Gaga opened up about the tour for the first time to Rolling Stone’s Brian Hiatt. Grab our new issue, on stands next week for his full story, and read his exclusive Q&A with the star here:

• Inside The Monster Ball: Lady Gaga Reveals Plans for Ambitious New Tour

Gaga promises the show will be an unconventional multimedia experience that tackles the inner demons she sings about on The Fame Monster, the album re-release due November 23rd that includes eight new songs. (more…)

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Weezer plot out more Raditude dates including a Halloween show at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. Plus, Arctic Monkeys head back stateside for a brief early-December tour of the Northeast and comedian Dane Cook embarks on the second leg of his laughfest. Full dates for all three treks, after the jump. (more…)

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Chris Brown listed fresh live dates in a post on his official Website on October 16th, and today his label confirmed the singer’s Fan Appreciation Tour — a 19-date trek that takes the “Forever” singer to intimate venues and clubs “conceptualized for and with ‘fans only’ in mind,” according to a press release. The tour will kick off November 14th in Houston and wrap a month later on December 15th with a show at New York’s Nokia Theater.

Proceeds from the tour will benefit a handful of charities, including Best Buddies International, an organization that works with children with intellectual disabilities, and Los Angeles’ Jenesse Center, a domestic violence intervention organization. Brown will also visit the Best Buddies International programs while on the road.

Brown was sentenced to probation, counseling and community labor for assaulting Rihanna earlier this year, and a judge must grant him permission to travel outside of Virginia. Perhaps not coincidentally, Brown’s announcement comes the same day Rihanna made headlines for releasing her first musical statement since the assault, the new single “Russian Roulette,” on her Website this morning. (more…)