Jack Johnson is resting his surfboard for the summer as he embarks on his first concert tour in two years. Johnson will kick off the 32-city trek in Hartford, Connecticut on June 9 and will go through the end of October with a two-night stint at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California on October 13 & 14.

Elton John, Sting, Dame Shirley Bassey and Lady Gaga will be headlining the 21st Birthday Concert for Rainforest Fund on May 13 in New York at Carnegie Hall. According to the website for Sting, following the concert will be a gala dinner, also featuring surprise guests. In addition to live music and dinner, the night will also be featuring a silent auction live for benefiting Rainforest Fund.

Sheryl Crow’s summer schedule has been announced. It includes a mixture of festival appearances and headlining dates as well as participation on the recently resurrected Lilith Fair tour. Crow will be kicking her outing off with an appearance at the Riverbend Festival in Chattanooga, TN on June 11. The trek will wrap up in Bridgeview, IL on June 26.

Miranda Lambert is riding high after racking up six CMA nominations, and she has set her sights on her first headlining tour through the US. The tour will be dubbed the “Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars” tour and it launches March 25 in Kennewick, Washington and runs through June 5 in New Braunfels, Texas. The [...]

Green Day has started to announce dates for a summer amphitheater North American tour as they continue to support “21st Century Breakdown,” their Grammy award winning album released last spring. The outing will feature AFI as special guests and kick off in Camden, NJ on August 3. Stops include Boston on August 16 and Dallas on August 26. The trek will wrap up in Irvine, CA on August 31. According to the record company for the band, additional dates are going to be announced soon.

The Honda Civic Tour began in 2001 with rock band Blink 182 as front liners for the said event. The tour not only features rock bands touring various US cities for several months, it also raffles a Honda Civic Coupe to be given away at the end of each yearly tour. In 2009, the tour did not push through but in 2008, the tour was headlined by Panic at the Disco, and they were joined by other groups like Motion City Soundtrack, The Hush Sound and Phantom Planet, who is best remembered for their hit song “California”, the theme for the TV series, The O.C.

Vermont based band Phish will be finding new life after their 2009 tour as they book dates for a concert run this summer. The 29-city trek will start June 11 in Chicago, Illinois and close with a two-night stand at Wantaugh, New York’s Nikon Theatre at Jones Beach on August 17 & 18.

R&B singer Trey Songz has experienced a meteoric rise in the last three months sharing the stage with Jay-Z, having his name on the Grammy nomination list, laying down notes with Stevie Wonder and even doing the Obama fist bump at the White House.

Lady Gaga is truly the little engine that could. After putting on stage shows around the world that have left her drained and even at times collapsed on the stage, she’s getting back up and asking for more. Lady Gaga will follow-up her successful North American tour from last fall with a new batch of tour dates upgrading her theater show to arenas.

Kings of Leon will continue to strike while the iron is hot by heading out on the road this summer in support of their latest effort “Only by the Night.” The Nashville rockers will tackle a 32-city trek starting on June 5 in Atlantic City, New Jersey and continuing through to wrap September 23 in Dallas, Texas.