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British post-punk legends Echo & The Bunnymen are launching their first US tour in support of their acclaimed new album, The Fountain. The shows are hot on the heels of the band’s recent tour celebrating their landmark album Ocean Rain that included orchestral performances at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.Their highly anticipated appearance at the Coachella Festival will kick off the tour.

Pearl Jam announced today that they will play eleven (11) Midwest and East Coast tour dates in May of 2010. The tour kicks-off on May 3rd at Sprint Center in Kansas City and wraps on May 21st at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Pearl Jam’s U.S. tour follows the band’s previously announced headlining appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Festival on May 1st.

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster will return in May with their first album since 2005.

Called ‘Blood and Fire‘, it will be released on May 17th and is set to be preceded by first single ‘Love Turns To Hate‘  on May 10th.

After forming in Brighton in 1999, the band became part of the so-called New Rock Revolution in 2002 when they released their debut album ‘Horse Of The Dog‘, which featured the single ‘Psychosis Safari‘ which hit the UK Top 40 in July 2003. ‘The Royal Society‘ followed in 2004, after which guitarist Andy Huxley left the band. The group returned last year with a new EP entitled ‘In The Garden‘, which was released in September.

Kings of Leon who are set to play their online scheduled US gig as headliners of the Bonnaroo Music Festival in June, are also expected to start recording a new album sometime this year. In the meantime, fans can still get their KOL overdose by purchasing a new gaming app.

Here are the latest tour and festivals announced this week ! Don’t miss out , there are still tickets available by clicking on the ticket links next to the event:

Rock legends Iron Maiden have announced details of a large North American tour, which will begin in Dallas on June 9th:

(9/3/10)

Stereophonics are Wayne Rooney’s favourite band. There, as that must be stated whenever the Stereophonics are written about, best to get it out of the way quickly so we can get on with the business of seeing whether they will live up to their reputation as one of the better live acts in the country…

Glam and punk rock legends Sylvain Sylvain from the New York Dolls and Cheetah Chrome from the Dead Boys have joined forces to create a new punk rock super-group–the Batusis! And with the help of Thommy Price and Enzo Penizzotto–the driving rhythm section behind Joan Jett and the Blackhearts–they’ve cooked up a cooler-than-cool-sounding new self-titled EP that will have its worldwide release on May 4, 2010 on Smog Veil Records.

What has been rumored for weeks now has been confirmed: UK’s Muse will downsize their arena show and make a club appearance at Stubb’s in Austin Texas next week. The group will be appearing along side Canadian band Metric as part of the annual SXSW festivities. Muse brought the roof down last week in front of a packed Madison Square Garden , dazzling the fans with their lasers and anthem rock stage show.

Florence and the Machine will headline her first UK festival this summer after it was announced she will top the bill at this year’s Latitude event in July.

Speaking about the booking, Latitude organiser Melvin Benn revealed his confidence in the singer, who recently took home the Best British Album award at the 2010 Brit Awards, convinced him to book her in September: “We were so sure that she would come through as being as strong as she is,” he told BBC 6 Music.