Three Days Grace, the Canadian rock band, will finish off the year touring Canada to support their recently released “Life Starts Now,” which is their third album. The natives of Toronto will start on the west coast and work their way to the east coast, starting in Victoria, British Columbia on November 16 and ending the tour 20 shows later on December 22 in Quebec City.

This fall the Cranberries will reunite once again after seven years for a month long North American tour.

Morrissey, following his month long tour of Europe this fall, will be returning to the States before the end of the year for a run on the West Coast to promote the upcoming b-sides of “Swords.”

In October, Snoop Dogg hits the road to stir up some interest for “Malice in Wonderland,” his upcoming studio album which is set to be released in December of this year. The tour will kick off in Baltimore, MD on October 27.

Def Leppard, the rock icons from Great Britain, have made some additions to their 2009 itinerary. A third leg of their North American tour will be with Cheap Trick. The co-headliners will start out in Reno, NV on October 22 and then follow up with 15 concerts across the middle of American and into Canada.

This fall Echo & the Bunnymen, the iconic 1980s alternative rockers, will return after another long layoff for a tour of North America behind the first album for the band in four years, “The Fountain.”

Fans of the Stone Temple Pilots who were worried that the recent seizure suffered by frontman Scott Weiland might affect the fall tour plans of the band can take comfort in knowing that a trek into Canada has been added onto the tour.

John Mayer, who is currently adding finishing touches to the follow up of his Grammy Award winning album “Continuum, returns to the stage with Pino Palladino, bassist, and Steve Jordan, drummer, for a pair of shows at the end of the year. Mayer, Palladino and Jordan are collectively called the John Mayer Trio.

Slipknot turns 10 this year and to celebrate they are extending their expansive 2009 tour into the fall. The masked metal marauders will be on tour for three weeks beginning with Seattle, Washington on October 10. The fun will wrap on Halloween as they play the Pearl in Las Vegas.

Kanye West has been all over the news this week for all the wrong reasons. After preempting Taylor Swift’s MTV Video Music Award speech by blathering on about Beyonce, he’s now announced an upcoming tour with fellow headline grabber Lady Gaga. The pair will be taking their “Fame Kills Tour” to 30-plus cities starting with Phoenix on November 10. Full tour dates are listed below.