- Alice In Chains has announced new North American tour dates for early next year, in support of their comeback album Black Gives Way To Blue.

Feb. 2 Vancouver, BC
Feb. 4 Seattle
Feb. 6 Salem, OR
Feb. 11 Oakland
Feb. 17 Phoenix
Feb. 19 Denver
Feb. 21 Kansas City, MO
Feb. 22 St. Louis
Feb. 23 Louisville, KY
Feb. 25 Atlanta
Feb. 27 Myrtle Beach, SC
Mar 1 Nashville, TN
Mar 2 Charlotte, NC
Mar 3 Washington, D.C.
Mar 5 Richmond, VA
Mar 6 Mashantucket, CT
Mar 8 New York City
Mar 12 Atlantic City, NJ
Mar 13 Philadelphia
Mar 14 Boston
Mar 16 Montreal
Mar 17 Toronto
Mar 19 Detroit
Mar 20 Chicago
Mar 21 St. Paul, MN

- U2 will play 2010's Glastonbury Festival, which will be their first festival performance in over 25 years.  The band will take the stage on the Friday night (June 25) of the Somerset bonanza as the festival celebrates its 40th anniversary.  Festival orginiser Michael Eavis said: "The 26-year-old rumour has finally come true. At last, the biggest band in the world are going to play the best festival in the world! Nothing could be better for our 40th anniversary party. And there are even more surprises in the pipeline..."

All 177,500 tickets for the 2010 event sold out within 24 hours earlier this year.

- The Foo Fighters' episode of VH1 Storytellers will debut Friday, November 27 at 11 p.m. The show will air in 162 countries next Friday, making it the first global premiere of a Storytellers episode. The episode was recently taped in California and will also stream online at storytellers.vh1.com after it debuts on-air.

- The Pixies will play next Tuesday, November 24 on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, in a rare TV appearance. The band will allow fans to vote online via Twitter (@JimmyFallon) to determine their second song of the night (which will stream online at NBC.com), choosing a track off their classic Doolitte. The Pixies are currently touring to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the record and will play "Debaser" on Late Night itself.

- Stone Temple Pilots have postponed the end of their North American tour to finish work on their long-awaited comeback album. According to their website, STP will finish up their current Canadian trek, but all U.S. dates scheduled afterwards have been dropped from the page. In a statement, the band says the new album "will be coming out in the early spring of next year."

- Nickelback has announced a run of tour dates for next April, extending their Dark Horse tour. Breaking Benjamin will open all dates, with Shinedown on board for all but four.

April 6 London, ON @ John Labatt Centre
April 8 Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
April 9 Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
April 11 Ottawa, ON @ Scotiabank Place
April13 Washington, DC @Verizon Center
April 14 Hampton VA @ Hampton Coliseum*
April16 Greenville, SC @ BI-LO Center*
April 17 Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum Complex*
April19 Orlando, FL @ Amway Arena*
April 21 Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
April 24 Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center

* Without Shinedown

- Metallica has added more tour dates for next year in Latin America and Europe. The band will now play nine shows in Peru, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia and Venezuela in January and March. Metallica will also play Oslo, Norway on April 13 and two shows in Moscow, Russia on April 24.