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Chris Brown is taking a break from his busy, court ordered hard labor schedule to go on a concert tour for whatever miniscule number remains of his fans. Why? The R&B singer recently posted on his Twitter saying “BOUT TO START A SMALL TOUR SOON.. 15 TO 20 DATES.. MY FAN APPRECIATION TOUR. just for yall.nothin bigger than 4,ooo seater.” He might as well also expect that there will only be 15 to 20 people attending each concert date and I’m not even counting the ones who will repeatedly be at the shows because they’re stalkers or groupies like that.

Method Man recently admitted to brutally shooting someone in the leg with a BB gun. But ironically, the incident has nothing to do with the lady who happens to be suing him for an alleged air gun attack back in 2008. In a video for VladTV.com, the rapper says that he accidentally “shot one of [his] people in the leg with a f***ing BB” while he was holding target practice on his tour bus a while back. He said that the BB broke through his friend’s skin and that there was “blood gushing out his damn leg.” Method Man claims that he felt really bad about the accident and that he is still apologizing to the guy up to now. I’m pretty sure that the lady who’s suing him is looking for more than just an apology.

Aerosmith have been forced to cancel their summer tour because of injuries sustained by frontman Steven Tyler.

The veteran rocker was hospitalised on 5 August, after tumbling off-stage during a show in South Dakota.

Tyler, 61, was left with a broken shoulder and needed 20 stitches to a head wound.

“Words can’t express the sadness I feel for having to cancel this tour,” guitarist Joe Perry said in a statement.

Perry thanked the band’s fans and insisted they hoped to “get the Aerosmith machine up and running again as soon as possible”.

Tyler injured himself after thunderstorms delayed the show in the city of Sturgis by more than an hour.

It was the fourth time in Tyler’s long career that the singer has fallen from the stage.

On the eve of an explosive court hearing into Michael Jackson’s estate, his mother is suffering in torment, says a close family friend.

Katherine Jackson is haunted by the belief she could have saved her troubled son. She had begged him just a week before his death not to go on the gruelling 50-date UK tour, it has emerged.

She is said to be unable to sleep and doing all she can to hold it together at the Jackson family compound in Encino for the sake of Michael’s three children. Kevin McLin, a family friend who knew Michael for 34 years, told the UK Sunday Mirror that Katherine is arranging for the older two children to meet their birth mother, Debbie Rowe, who obtained visitation rights in a deal struck with Katherine out of court. Rowe will be introduced as Miss Debbie rather than Mom.

McLin said: “Debbie hasn’t had contact with the kids for years so they will see a counsellor to talk them through it before they see her. Prince Michael has taken his father’s death the worst. He used to go everywhere with Michael – to business meetings and the studios. He is kind of quiet, but they are all seeing a therapist and Paris lets her emotions out, which is good.”

Katherine is focused on AEG, the London tour promoter, McLin said. “Katherine is asking questions but the answers don’t make sense. She wants to know how Michael passed the physical examination he was given by AEG. Something has to be wrong with this because he had all of these problems – how could he possibly pass a test like that?”

McLinn added: “When the toxicology result comes out and [if] it’s different from what the AEG doctors said about his health it will be time to consider legal action.”

Source: Splash News

Lil Wayne better have a good apology ready to give to Europe. The rapper and his reps released a statement last Thursday announcing that he will not be able to perform at the next seven scheduled European tour dates due to an illness. Apparently, he was forced to cancel due to doctor’s orders but he does promise to reschedule when possible. The statement reads “Lil Wayne extends an apology to his fans for the short notice of this postponement. But [he] looks forward to returning for the performances and visitation with his fans.” He better go back and do those shows or he might end up owing promoters some big money.

Sexy singer Ciara is featured on the cover of Rap-Up magazine’s Summer 2009 issue. The 23-year old R&B star discusses the comparisons with Beyonce, rumors of dating 50 Cent and her tour mate Britney Spears. When it comes to being compared with Beyonce, she said “I know what work I put in to what I do and I know where I get my inspiration from and it’s definitely not the references that they put up on the Internet. People live for it. Negative energy travels faster than positive energy. Whoever it was, for them to dig deep down and find all those references, that’s ridiculous.” When asked about Britney, Ciara said “Everything about Britney makes you like her. I feel like she’s a star. She’s got that energy that’s just magnetic. She just glows. It’s not just one thing about her that makes her cool.”

I am thrilled to announced that Kanye West his hitting the road this fall with Lady Gaga. You better buy your tickets the second they go up for sale because I believe that this will be the hottest tickets in the fall. The duo will be playing to audiences all over North America. And if you’re wondering if the ‘Poker Face’ singer is going to open for the rapper, no she isn’t. In fact, it’s not even going to be a co-headlining tour. The two incredible artists are going to be performing together as part of one long set. I can’t believe Kanye’s big ego actually agreed to that.

The singer has recently revealed her ambitious plans of touring for a staggering two years. She said: “I’ll be touring in 2010 and through to the year after. I just can’t wait.” Leona Lewis also mentioned a little something about her upcoming album which she will be promoting during this epic crusade she has planned: “I’ve recorded about 20 songs so far. I’d say it was about halfway there. I’ve been flying back and forth to Los Angeles to record it. The music has a different feel this time. It’s more of a live, heavier sound with a lot of real instruments. It’s something I’ll be able to perform live.” Such a pleasant thought that Leona Lewis’ songs will feature real instruments this time, as opposed to the ghosts playing violins and whatnot she had up until now.
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The famous pop star’s tour seems to again be under the question mark since new info has recently surfaced that may prevent Michael Jackson from performing his long awaited tour. It seems that his manager has signed a contract that prevents Michael Jackson from performing for eighteen months. This contract was signed with AllGood Entertainment whose CEO had this to say: “We have a non-compete clause. Prior to our show, Michael cannot perform anywhere in the world.” Well now… this is indeed a predicament. Of course, an obvious solution would be for Michael Jackson to hold his show on the Moon… after all, there has been all talk and no action about colonizing outer space. It’s time to get serious about it!

MULTI-PLATINUM BAND HIT THE ROAD IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN, TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 2009

Reprise Records’ Grammy®Award winning rock band Green Day have announced that they will hit the road for their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years beginning July 3rd in Seattle, WA. The first leg of the tour will cross North America through the summer and finish up with two shows in Los Angeles on August 26th.
Green Day are touring in support of their long-awaited eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown, which will be released globally by Reprise Records on Friday, May 15th, 2009. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and recording 21st Century Breakdown since early 2006 with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins). The first single, “Know Your Enemy” was released to radio and digital retailers on April 16th.
Green Day recently performed 21st Century Breakdown in its entirety during a series of warm-up club shows for hometown fans in the Bay Area. In its review of a show at Oakland’s Fox Theater, Rolling Stone commented that the band, augmented by guitarists Jason White and Jeff Matika, and keyboardist Jason Freese, had the “Quadrophenia-like hang of 21st Century Breakdown’s classic rock melodies and lifetime-punk drive down solid” and that the album is “rock opera in which the rock always comes first.” “21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s best album,” the reviewer concluded, “and at the Fox, they proved that the rock opera can be as punk as a Clash 45.”
21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s first studio album since 2004’s two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide.
Green Day’s upcoming North American tour dates are as follows:

July
3rd Seattle, WA
4th Vancouver, BC
6th Edmonton, AB
7th Saskatoon, SAS
9th Winnipeg, MAN
10th Fargo, ND
11th Minneapolis, MN
13th Chicago, IL
14th Detroit, MI
16th Hamilton, ONT
17th Ottawa, ONT
18th Montreal, QUE
20th Boston, MA
21st Philadelphia, PA
22nd Pittsburgh, PA
24th Hartford, CT
25th Albany, NT
27th New York, NY
29th Washington, DC
31st Nashville, TN

August
1st Atlanta, GA
3rd Tampa, FL
4th Miami, FL
5th Orlando, FL
7th New Orleans, LA
8th Houston, TX
9th San Antonio, TX
11th St. Louis, MO
13th Omaha, NE
15th Denver, CO
16th Salt Lake City, UT
18th San Jose, CA
20th San Diego, CA
21st Las Vegas, NV
22nd Phoenix, AX
24th Sacramento, CA
25th Los Angeles, CA

Now it’s out. After a successful opening of Britney Spears’ “Circus” tour in New Orleans sources near to the pop star are now willing to reveal how the 27-year old singer struggled with her confidence a week before the actual tour. Sources said a team of relaxation therapists had to be called to look after Britney Spears before she could even perform. Britney Spears’ mis-confidence is understandable considering this is her first major concert after her emotional and career collapse a year or so ago. She was not sure how people would react to her performance so she was freaking out about almost everything.

There was even a time that the people behind her were not even sure she could perform on the stage. Thanks to her father Jamie and a bunch of relaxation therapist, Britney Spears was able to go on stage and show the world that she is back! The stadium may not have been filled but the support of her fans helped Britney throughout the show. At least now, everyone can be sure that what is weighing heavily on Britney Spears’ mind is no longer her ex-husband Kevin Federline but her career and how to make her performance better.

The “American Idol” winner is excited about her first upcoming tour. Jennifer Hudson said this about touring for the first time: “I’m excited to get out and meet the people and sing for the people. I always love to perform live. The only other tour I’ve been part of is the ‘American Idol’ tour, so this’ll be more intimate and personal.” What does Jennifer Hudson find so intimate and personal about singing in front of thousands of people, sharing living quarters and transportation with loads of other people, getting little sleep and other some such things. Or, no, wait, that’s not how they roll up there. Jennifer Hudson will probably have her own car, her own suite, her own “assistants”. In that case it will indeed prove a most fulfilling and self-discovering experience.

I keep saying that he’s the dethroned King of Pop but I now take it back. Michael Jackson has still got it as tickets for all 50 of his shows at London’s O2 Arena have completely sold out! Jacko fans who didn’t trust the reliability of online purchasing spent the night camped out in front of the O2 to assure dibs on the tickets. Tickets for the show went on sale on Friday morning. One million tickets for Jacko’s comeback performance were snatched up in a matter of hours! Tickets to see the shows are going for as much as $14,000 on eBay but I can only think that the prices will go even higher as the show dates come closer.

U2.com today confirms that the U2 360¡Æ tour will open at the Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona on 30th June. The U2 360¡Æ Tour is sponsored by BlackBerry¢ç and it is the band¡¯s first stadium outing since the Vertigo Tour 05/06 and follows the release of their acclaimed album, No Line On The Horizon. Their 12th studio album, No Line On The Horizon is already number 1 in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Japan and the Czech Republic with further chart positions to be announced this week.
Produced by Live Nation Global Touring, U2 360¡Æ will visit 14 cities across Europe including dates in Milan, Gothenburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Nice, Dublin, Chorzow, Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, London, Sheffield and Glasgow before finishing at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 22nd August. The European tour will be followed by dates in North America beginning at Chicago¡¯s Soldier Field on September 12th, 2009.

EUROPEAN TOUR DATES:

30-JUNE BARCELONA, SP NOU CAMP
07-JULY MILAN, IT SAN SIRO
11-JULY PARIS, FR STADE DE FRANCE
15-JULY NICE, FR PARC CHARLES EHRMANN
18-JULY BERLIN, DE OLYMPIC STADIUM
20-JULY AMSTERDAM, NL ArenA
24-JULY DUBLIN, IE CROKE PARK
31-JULY GOTHENBURG, SE ULLEVI

06-AUG. CHORZOW, PL SLASKI STADIUM
10-AUG. ZAGREB, HR MAKSIMIR STADIUM
14-AUG. LONDON, UK WEMBLEY STADIUM
18-AUG. GLASGOW, UK HAMPDEN PARK
20-AUG. SHEFFIELD, UK DON VALLEY STADIUM
22-AUG. CARDIFF, UK MILLENNIUM STADIUM

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR SCHEDULE:

12-SEPT. CHICAGO, IL SOLDIER FIELD
16-SEPT. TORONTO, ON THE ROGERS CENTRE
20-SEPT. BOSTON, MA GILLETTE STADIUM
24-SEPT. NEW YORK, NY GIANTS STADIUM

In September and October, U2 360 will also visit: Atlanta, GA; Charlottesville, VA; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Norman, OK; Phoenix, AZ; Tampa, FL; Washington, DC and Vancouver, BC. Complete Tour and ticketing information to follow.

Chris Cornell has announced that he will hit the road for a 2009 US tour to support his upcoming Timbaland produced album, Scream, which hits stores March 10th. The tour will kick off in Austin, TX on March 27th and continue through April 19th hitting major cities like Chicago, New York, and Boston. Check out Cornell’s MySpace page to hear tracks from his upcoming album and head over to his official site for more information regarding the tour and to read his personal blog. Tickets for the tour go on sale this coming Friday, February 13th.

Scream is out March 10th on Mosley Music/Interscope Records

March 27th in Austin, TX @ Stubbs Bar-B-Q
March 28th in Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
March 29th in Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
March 31st in New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
April 1st in Atlanta, GA @ CW Center Stage
April 3rd in Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
April 4th in Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
April 5th in Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
April 7th in New York, NY @ Webster Hall
April 8th in New York, NY @ Webster Hall
April 10th in Boston, MA @ House of Blues
April 11th in Montclair, NJ @ Wellmont Theatre
April 13th in Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
April 14th in Ann Arbor, MI @ Michigan Theater
April 15th in Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue Theatre
April 17th in Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater
April 18th in St Paul, MN @ MYTH
April 19th in Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theater

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The city of Rochester, New York must really be pissed off with Lil Wayne as he once again screwed them over and did not show up for his performance just a mere 24 hours before he was set to take the stage. That made it the third time he’s flaked on the city in the last 4 months. The rapper’s people blame the logistics of his band because travelling from Rochester to Calgary, where he was scheduled to perform the day after, would be too difficult for the whole group. The concert promoter is considering filing a lawsuit against Lil Wayne.

Hot on the heels of ultra-successful runs with Theory of a Deadman, Seether and the Puddle of Mudd Tour, Nashville favorites SafetySuit will grace the stage alongside multi-platinum artists 3 Doors Down and Hinder for what is poised to be one of the biggest rock tours of 2009. They’ll be kicking off a month long run on January 22nd in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Nearly a year after their debut single “Someone Like You” hit airwaves SafetySuit have garnered critical acclaim and widespread appeal. “Someone Like You” broke through the Hot A/C Top 30 and Alternative Top 15, while the accompanying music video is steadily climbing the VH1 charts-hitting #8 on the Top 20 Countdown week of 12/22. Their second single “Stay” will be impacting at Top 40 and Hot A/C in February.

“SafetySuit is a fantastic artist development story,” said Universal Motown President Sylvia Rhone. “They’ve built up a passionate grassroots following through constant touring, while our team has been working for the past year to seed their music across multiple platforms. They’re a great band with a long career ahead of them, and it’s gratifying to see everything coming together so beautifully.” To date four tracks from their debut album Life Left To Go, including “Someone Like You”, have been featured on the hit MTV reality show “The Hills”. The resulting sales increase is staggering; both mobile and digital track sales are up 1000% and full album sales are up 25%.

Be sure to check out the new SafetySuit Ecard featuring exclusive acoustic tracks, video content, tour info and photos.

SAFETYSUIT ON TOUR:

Reading, PA-Sovereign Center, January 22nd (w/3 Doors Down & Hinder)
Johnson City, TN-Freedom Hall Civic Center, January 24th (w/3 Doors Down & Hinder)
Tallahassee, FL-Leon County Civic Center, January 27th (w/3 Doors Down & Hinder)
Orlando, FL-Hard Rock Live, January 28th (w/3 Doors Down)
Boca Raton, FL – Mizner Park Amphitheatre, January 30th (w/3 Doors Down)
Beaumont, TX-Ford Arena, February 6th (w/3 Doors Down, Hoobastank & Seether)
Corpus Christi, TX-Concrete Street Amph, February 7th (w/3 Doors Down & Seether)
Midland, TX-Midland Horseshoe Arena, February 10th (w/3 Doors Down & Seether)
Amarillo, TX-Amarillo Civic Center, February 11th (w/3 Doors Down, Hoobastank & Seether)
Lafayette, LA-Cajundome, February 13th (w/ 3 Doors Down)
Bossier City, LA-Century, Tel Center, February 14th (w/3 Doors Down)
Louisville, KY-Broadbent Arena, February 17th (w/3 Doors Down, Hoobastank & Seether)
Grand Rapids, MI-DeltaPlex, February 18th (w/3 Doors Down, Hoobastank & Seether)
Bloomington, IL-US Cellular Coliseum, February 20th (w/3 Doors Down, Hoobastank & Seether)
Hammond, IN-The Venue at Horseshoe Casino, February 21st (w/3 Doors Down & Hoobastank)
Boston, MA – House of Blues Boston, February 23rd (w/ 3 Doors Down & Hoobastank)
New York, NY-Hammerstein Ballroom, February 24th (w/3 Doors Down & Hoobastank)
Uncaseville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena, February 27th (w/ 3 Doors Down & Hoobastank)
Atlantic City, NJ-House of Blues, February 28th (w/3 Doors Down)

Pop princess Britney Spears is celebrating her birthday today with the release of her highly anticipated album, Circus, and the announcement of North American tour dates!  Britney will be kicking off The Circus tour this spring in New Orleans with support from the Pussycat Dolls.

Head over to iTunes to grab Circus today, and please visit Britney.com for more tour details.

Tour Dates for The Circus: Starring Britney Spears

3/3 New Orleans, LA
3/5 Atlanta, GA
3/7 Miami, FL
3/8 Tampa, FL
3/11 Uniondale, NY
3/13 Newark, NJ
3/16 Boston, MA
3/18 Toronto, ON
3/20 Montreal, QU
3/24 Washington, DC
3/26 Uncasville, CT
3/27 Pittsburgh, PA
3/30 Houston, TX
3/31 Dallas, TX
4/2 Kansas City, MO
4/3 Minneapolis, MN
4/6 Edmonton, AB
4/8 Vancouver, BC
4/9 Tacoma, WA
4/11 Sacramento, CA
4/12 San Jose, CA
4/14 Salt Lake City, UT
4/16 Los Angeles, CA
4/19 Anaheim, CA
4/24 Phoenix, AZ
4/25 Las Vegas, NV
4/28 Chicago, IL

Fool a concert promoter once, shame on you. Allegedly fool a concert promoter thrice, you’re getting sued. The guy who runs Cash Money records, Birdman, is being sued for allegedly taking $275,000 to put on a Lil Wayne concert in Miami and then backing out of the deal several times over. Since there’s still no concert, the promoter wants his money back. The best part of the suit though is that Birdman is accused of backing out of one of the shows because the weather was supposedly too cold. Do consider that this was in Miami. It never gets cold in Miami unless there’s a hurricane.

Ne-Yo got kicked off R Kelly’s tour some time ago and he says that he got the boot for being too big for R’s liking and a judge is giving him a nice amount of money for all his trouble. An LA Superior Court judge has ordered Rowe Entertainment to pay off a cool $700,000 after Rowe never responded to a lawsuit that Ne-Yo filed earlier this year. The singer wanted payback after he got dropped from R’s tour because of allegedly upstaging the supposed headliner. Back when the lawsuit was filed though, Rowe responded to Ne-Yo’s claims saying that they never got a finalized contract from the singer’s agent which was the reason he got kicked off.