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Mariah Carey will launch her first North American tour in more than three years on December 31 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The eight-week, 19-city “Angels Advocate” tour will wrap on February 27 at The Pearl Concert Theater in Las Vegas. Tickets for the majority of the shows will go on sale on [...]

Goodie Mob Reunion Tour
Thursday October 15th - Goodie Mob With Special Guest Scarface At The House Of Blues In New Orleans, LA
Saturday October 17th - Goodie Mob With Special Guest Scarface At Stubb’s In Austin, TX
Monday October 19th - Goodie Mob With Special Guest Scarface At The House Of Blues In Houston, TX
Tuesday [...]

N.E.R.D., Wale and J. Cole are going back to school via Jay-Z’s forthcoming North American tour.
Revealed as opening acts for Jay-Z Thursday, NERD, Wale and J. Cole will join Jay-Z for a twenty-four date tour that kicks off October 9 at Penn State University. (see dates below)
Touring in support of their respective efforts, including ‘The [...]

Bad Boy Entertainment recording group and recipient of the 2009 BET Award for Best Group DAY26 are now onboard for the anticipated BET 106 & Park LIVE Tour featuring Trey Songz and Mario.
The LIVE tour kicks off September 29th at the Los Angeles House of Blues, making its way through New York, Atlanta, Houston, and [...]

Bad news for a Monday: Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys has been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his parotid gland. While the doctors caught the cancer early enough and Yauch is expected to make a full recovery, the band has canceled their forthcoming tour dates, which included many headlining festival appearances and [...]

Chrisette Michele has been chosen as the opening act for Maxwell’s anticipated tour in support of the recently released and anticipated album “Blacksummers’night”.
Michele, riding high on the Billboard 200 Albums charting #1 album “Epiphany,” will tour with Maxwell through fourteen cities starting July 12.
According to organizers, Michele will join Maxwell at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium [...]

Soulful singers Deborah Cox and Kenny Lattimore are linking up for a exclusive summer tour.
Touring in support of their recent releases “Promise” and “Timeless” respectively, Cox and Lattimore have dubbed the trek “A Timeless Promise Tour”.
Slated to kick off July 15 at House of Blues’ Lake Buena Vista, FL venue, the tour will make [...]

Michael Jackson’s ‘This Is It’ series will be revamped for a special tribute concert.
According to tour organizers, the original 50-date series will be spun off to create a one time tribute show in September.
Featuring a number of top entertainers, with Madonna being considered, the show will likely take place in Los Angeles where Jackson [...]

Rapper Lil Wayne’s bid to stop the inclusion of “private and sensitive” material for use in an upcoming documentary was rejected by a California court on Friday.
Superior Court Judge Michael Mink ruled against the rap star’s motion to prevent Digerati (QD3 Entertainment) from releasing a documentary titled “The Carter” in its entirety, reports Allhiphop.com.
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The Circus is coming to even more towns than originally thought.
On the heels of news that Britney Spears will for the first time ever be taking her musical spectacular to Australia this fall comes word that she’s not quite done with her home crowd, adding a second leg to her U.S. and Canadian tour dates [...]

The singer has canceled plans to go on a world tour, though she hasn’t admitted to being pregnant… yet. Unfortunately, everyone working on her show is up in arms, as costume designers and dancers are now out of what was probably a very high-paying gig.

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Festival organizers say hip-hop and R&B singer Lauryn Hill has canceled all tour dates in Europe this summer for health reasons.
Stockholm Jazz Festival spokeswoman Liisa Tolonen says the artist’s agent informed the festival late Tuesday that all performances in Europe by the former Fugees singer have been canceled. This includes shows in Sweden, Greece, the [...]

With his long awaited fourth studio album, BLACKsummers’night, slated for release by Columbia Records on July 7, the contemporary soul artist Maxwell will return to the concert stage for first leg of a major North American tour kicking off June 17 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and finishing July 31 in Miami (please see Maxwell tour [...]

R&B singer/actor Mario is ready to let you have it your way thanks to a fresh partnership with Burger King !
Teaming up with the fast food giant, Mario will perform in six North American cities this summer. The best part is… it’s free !
In addition to having Mario lined up for what Burger King [...]

Singer/songwriter The-Dream and R&B starlet Keyshia Cole are gearing up for a 21-city tour scheduled to launch May 13 at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati and conclude at the Pearl in Las Vegas on June 21.
The-Dream will be promoting his sophomore album, “Love Vs. Money” (Radio Killa/Def Jam), which peaked at No. 1 on [...]