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‘N Sync will tour North American arenas in the coming months in support of its 2001 Jive album, “Celebrity.” A full itinerary has not yet been unveiled, but dates are so far confirmed for five shows, beginning March 3 at the Rose Garden in Portland, Ore. The group’s stadium run last year grossed more than $90 million, according to Billboard sister publication Amusement Business. Tickets for the Portland show go on sale Friday (Jan. 25) through Ticketmaster, while seats for a March 8 performance in San Jose, Calif., a March 10 gig in San Diego, and an April 2 concert… Read more »

311’s spring tour with Hoobastank, which launches next month, will include a very, very special holiday show in New Orleans. No, not Valentine’s Day. Not Saint Patrick’s Day. We’re talking 311 Day, and for the second time in three years, the hip-hop-reggae-rockers will celebrate their self-declared March 11 holiday in the Big Easy, complete with a proclamation by New Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial. Circus performers and other surprise guests are expected at the concert, which will be an extended show with rare live items on the set list. Hotel packages are being offered in New Orleans for out-of-town guests,… Read more »

Alien Ant Farm, Fenix TX and Glassjaw are among the bands on board for the seventh annual SnoCore festival. Like last year, SnoCore will once again be split into two factions: SnoCore Rock and SnoCore Icicle Ball, which adopts a more eclectic, avant-garde vibe. AAF and the like-minded rock lineup will kick things off February 15 in Providence, Rhode Island, according to the tour’s publicist. While 26 cities are confirmed thus far – through March 30 in Las Vegas – additions to the trek are expected, as is the announcement of another opening band. Icicle Ball will begin its cross-country… Read more »

The San Francisco-area date of Limp Bizkit’s “Put Your Guitar Where Your Mouth Is” guitarist search set for Friday (January 11) was cancelled due to problems obtaining the proper permits, according to the band’s website. The event was to take place just outside the city at the Guitar Center in Concord, California, but things weren’t exactly in order, store manager Frank Gutwein revealed. “I don’t want to address the reasons why, but it was cancelled due to uncontrollable circumstances. Right now we’re looking at mid-February. We don’t have an exact place or time,” he said. Limp Bizkit is looking to… Read more »

Sum 41 is following up the hit “Fat Lip” and its latest single “In Too Deep” with “Motivation.” The track is the third single off All Killer No Filler, and the video for the clip is being lensed by director Mark Klasfeld, who worked on the band’s previous two clips. It was shot last November in Los Angeles. Sum 41 is set to embark on a U.S. tour starting in Denver on January 15 with Unwritten Law and Gob. The Canadian band is then set to tour overseas to make up dates postponed due to the September 11 terrorist attacks.… Read more »

Pop-punk fans looking for an incentive to get them off their butts during the dreary winter months ahead are about to get a swift kick in the pants from Sum 41. The Ontario quartet have chosen “Motivation” as the third single off their debut album, All Killer No Filler. The track, which follows the previous singles “Fat Lip” and “In Too Deep,” is expected to surface in mid-January, according to an Island Records spokesperson. For the video, the group forwent the services of Marc Klasfeld (Alien Ant Farm, Jay-Z), who helmed the album’s previous clips, in favor of superAmerica (Ronan… Read more »

Six months after returning to store shelves, Weezer are ready to make their follow-up. The band will soon enter a Hollywood studio to record its fourth album, according to an Interscope Records spokesperson. The LP’s scheduled April 30 release date may seem optimistic, but it’s not like the diligent group is starting from scratch. Just two weeks after the release of Weezer, the band’s second self-titled effort (known as the Green Album), frontman Rivers Cuomo and company hit a Washington, D.C., recording studio to lay down demos for 12 new songs, including the instrumental “Burnt Jamb,” “Keep Fishin’,” “Not in… Read more »

Nelly Furtado will try to extend the enormous success of her debut release, Whoa, Nelly!, next year with her Burn in the Spotlight Tour. Furtado will launch the tour in Victoria, British Columbia, on January 28th and play the West coast for the first leg. The tour will run into April, with label mates Citzen Cope, whose debut is due January 29th, opening. Meanwhile, the praise for Furtado keeps coming. She is nominated for an American Music Award (the show takes place January 9th) and an NAACP Image Award, which will be handed out March 1st. Nelly Furtado Tour Dates:… Read more »

The Stereophonics arrive stateside on Jan 21. They were originally going to headline in Sept. but the dates had to be postponed due to 9/11. They are currently (UK) double Platinum with their latest release, “Just Enough Education To Perform” and have just completed a quick 5 US City jaunt in the coveted opening spot on U2’s “Elevation Tour.” No stranger to arena shows, the Stereophonics are the biggest live act in the UK and constantly sell out shows abroad. The Stereophonics second single “Have A Nice Day” can be seen on Vh-1 and M2 as well as heard on… Read more »

After several days off back home in Southern California, Hoobastank hits the road again as of tonight (November 29) in support of its self-titled Island Records debut album, featuring the single “Crawling In The Dark.” The group plays at Graceland in Seattle and has shows lined up through December 20 across the West and Midwest parts of the country. With “Crawling In The Dark,” people have compared Hoobstank’s sound to that of Incubus, and that might not be just coincidental. Hoobstank guitarist Dan Estrin says he’s known the members of Incubus since his early teen years growing up in the… Read more »