Elton John, veteran pop rocker, will be making his guest appearance on “Black Gives Way to Blue,” the forthcoming album from Alice In Chains. On the title track of the album John plays piano. A recent press release describes the song as a heart stirring and moving tribute to Layne Staley, late lead singer for Alice In Chains.

The R&B, Soul explosion of Maxwell is alive and well wrapped up in his fourth studio album “BLACKsummers’night.” He’s also successfully completed a 24-city run this summer roaming the US, selling out every show in his wake. He’s not one to rest on his laurels as he prepares to take on a 14-city tour this fall touching Canada and blanketing the remaining US.

Van Morrison, with his sporadic summer tour that revisited “Astral Weeks,” his classic album from 1968 complete, has now announced a couple extra fall dates for “Astral Weeks” in addition to some regular show dates. Van Morrison will be kicking the trek off with a Las Vegas performance on September 25 followed by a September 29 theater gig in Chicago. Other stops planned include a September 30 date in Toronto, a October 1 stop in Montreal, and an October 24 visit to Waterbury, CT, before wrapping up in Mashantucket, CT on October 28.

Internationally renound DJ Tiesto will be warming up the turn tables for an 18-month run that will kick off with a trio of dates at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York (September 24, 25 & 26). The 27-city fall US tour will carry though New Year’s Eve where he?ll play Haze in Las Vegas.

Rihanna, Kayne West and Jay-Z, three of R&B’s biggest names, will be performing together next month for “The Jay Leno Show’s” debut episode. The three will be appearing in the September 14 launch episode for the new primetime show of Leno’s on NBC and perform the single “Run This Town” from “The Blueprint 3,” the forthcoming album from Jay-Z due out in stores on September 11.

With a ballpark tour currently in his hands, Bob Dylan has laid a new set of dates for fall to continue support for his latest studio effort “Together through Life”, which hit retailers barely four months ago.

The fall outing will only last about a couple of weeks and will open with a show in Seattle on October 5 and will close in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium where Dylan will perform for three straight nights from October 13 to 15.