Latin crooner Marc Anthony will be hitting the United States early in the fall to back up his late spring release, “Iconos”. Anthony’s short east coast album trek will entail seven dates with a two-night engagement in Miami’s American Airlines Arena on September 17 and 18. The east coast tour will kick off on September 10 at the Madison Square Garden in NYC and will cap off with a show at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL on October 2.

Who could blame Jason Aldean for wanting to extend his tour.

Aldean over the past 13 months has been ranked No. 1 for a longer period of time than all other country artists. Aldean’s new album is set to be released in November, which may provide his fans with an opportunity for hearing some of his new music in concert.

Aldean said, we’ve discussed putting some of the new songs into the show. There’s a good chance of that. We haven’t performed them live yet, and the time is now.

Aldean is a native of Macon, GA. “Wide Open,” his album from 2009, lifted him to new heights with its three No. 1 hit singles and provided him with new opportunities such as taping “Crossroads” on CMT with Bryan Adams as well as the chance to work with Randy Owen.

Aldean talking about continuing his tour said, it’s been a great year, with our first tour of big arenas and some big songs. I’m not ready quite yet to move away from this. We are having such a blast together on the road.

Fresh from the success of “The Rowdy Friends” tour last spring, legendary country act Hank Williams Jr. will be hitting the road once again this fall for another round of the said tour. Eight other country acts are scheduled to alternately appear alongside Williams for the tour. For the September leg, expect Eric Church, Sunny Sweeney, Gretchen Wilson and Lee Brice to perform as special guests while Jamey Johnson, Colt Ford, Josh Thompson and The Grascals will all be present when the tour hits its eight scheduled stops for October (The Grascals would not be appearing on October 9, 22 and 23, though).

Rascal Flatts has announced they have signed with Big Machine Records to release “Nothing Like This,” their upcoming album. The first single from the album “Why Wait” was sent today to radio to precede the album’s November 16 release date.

Scott Borchetta, CEO and Label Group President of Big Machine said, Rascal Flatts is Country Music’s biggest band. We are thrilled and honored for them to join our family at Big Machine Records. They are celebrating being together for ten years. I can’t wait from them to start on the next ten years.

This fall Ray Lamontagne will be out on the road once again as he launches a US tour that will kick off with two shows with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

The tour is scheduled to start in the middle of October. It will feature Lamontagne with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD on October 15 and on October 16 at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. In November Lamontagne will perform nine acoustic shows across the country.

Legendary jam band Widespread Panic has just announced today the details of their forthcoming tour in support of their fall release, the much awaited “Live in the Classic City II” album. John Bell and the rest of Panic will be performing songs from the live album on a tour that will span 30 performances in [...]

While the Christian Science Monitor website have released a report saying that award winning hip-hop act and philanthropist Wyclef Jean have formally filed his candidacy for the next presidential race in Haiti, the singer negates all notion of him going through the presidential campaign trail in his birth nation as he told the Associated Press recently.

The goodbyes had barely been given by Kenny Chesney to thousands of fans at his sold out show towards the ending of Country Thunder, a four day festival that is held annually in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, when the headliner for next year was announced. The final act to appear onstage in 2011 at Country Thunder will be Rascal Flatts.

The band has been out on the road most of the time recently with their “Nothing Like This Tour,” accompanied by opening acts Chris Young and Kellie Pickler. The trio is made up of Joe Don Rooney, Jay Demarcus and Gary LeVox. They may need to get a bigger bus soon. Joe Don and Jay’s wives are both pregnant. Rascal Flatts are also working on “To Appomattox,” an HBO miniseries, in addition to their sold out performances.

One of the renowned alternative acts of the ‘90s, Jimmy Eat World, is about to come out with their newest record entitled “Invented” and will be going on tour this fall to pave the way for its release. Joining the band for the road trip is backup vocalist Courtney Marie Andrews. The album tour will kick off with a show in Atlanta’s Center Stage on September 21 and will entail 15 more stops, including three stops n California after which they will be swinging by the Midwest to the east coast till they hit Boston’s House of Blues on October 15, on their way to their final and only Canadian stop in Toronto’s Kool Haus on October 17.

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood, collectively known as the legendary rock band The Rolling Stones have recently confirmed that they will be going on a world tour that will be launched on 2011 and might span through 2012 which marks the Stones’ 50th year in the biz.

However, as soon as they firmed up reports of a 2011 world tour, rumors have spread that the gig will be the last performance for the band as they hit the retirement phase. A source for UK’s The Sun told the newspaper that the band will make this tour their last so they can “bow out on top of their game”, leave the biz in classic fashion without leaving their fans hanging or waiting for more.