Yo Gabba Gabba has announced “Yo Gabba Gabba! Live” tour dates on their official site, in addition to news of an upcoming soundtrack. The tour will star the show’s actual actors, not just stand-ins, making the tour very special. Dates are sure to be sell outs, so tickets should be ordered when they are made available.

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.

Rock star Jon Bon Jovi says that he completely understands why former members of Nirvana are protesting the use of an image of Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5, a popular video game.

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.

After three years of marriage, which is like ten or fifteen years in Tinseltown, Avril Lavigne and Sum 41 lead vocalist Deryck Whibley decide to amicably part ways. “We have been friends since I was 17, started dating when I was 19, and married when I was 21. I am grateful for our time together, [...]

In terms of her role in Precious, the movie based on Sapphire’s novel Push, Mariah Carey has quite a good sense of humor concerning it. This is despite the fact that her character as well as the story, concerning a downtrodden, abused teen, is not at all funny. The global superstar Carey in playing Ms. Weiss, the welfare caseworker, wore dowdy clothes and no false eyelashes or makeup. Not that Carey didn’t try.

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.