R.E.M. hits the road in late May for what promises to be an extended world tour behind their new album Accelerate. The 2007 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hope to bring in younger fans by adding hip openers Modest Mouse and The National to the bill. R.E.M. plans to warm up for the tour by playing two festivals in March, including a headlining gig at Langerado on March 8th. At the moment the band has only shared 13 dates, but look for many more to be announced over the next few weeks.
We’ve also got plenty of announcements from other bands to tell you about:
- Widespread Panic heads out for a month long tour of the East to support their new album (begins: 04/01)
- Mexico’s genre-bending Kinky crosses the border for a four-week tour of the U.S. and Canada (begins: 02/23)
- Jackson Browne unplugs for a solo acoustic trek (begins: 03/07)
- Guitarist Kaki King embarks on a 12-date tour (begins: 03/21)
- The New Deal wakes up from a hiatus by slowly but surely adding tour dates (begins: 03/06)
- Sammy Hagar joins Kenny Chesney’s Poets and Pirates stadium tour as a supporting act (begins: 05/10)
- Japanese noise-rockers Boredoms play “in the round” on their upcoming extended tour of America (begins: 3/15)
- Wacky Nellie McKay hits a variety of random towns and venues over the next three months (begins: 01/31)
