Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction have launched the official website for their upcoming co-headlining summer tour. The site features an embedded playlist featuring tracks from both headlining bands plus opening act Street Sweeper, which features Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. The site also offers up, in typical Trent Reznor fashion, a free EP featuring unreleased tracks by all three bands, available in high-quality MP3, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and higher-than-CD-quality WAV files. Full tour dates after the jump.
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U2 have announced European and North American dates for their 2009 world tour in support of their new album, No Line on the Horizon. The tour, entitled “U2360″ because of its innovative 360-degree setup, will kick off in Barcelona on July 30th and run through August 22nd in . Following a short break, U2 will embark on their first tour of American stadiums since 1997’s PopMart tour. The US portion of the tour will begin on September 12th at Soldier Field in Chicago and wrap up October 28th at Vancouver’s B.C. Place. Opening acts for the European shows will include Snow Patrol, Kaiser Chiefs, Elbow, and Glasvegas, while warmup duties in North America will be handled by Snow Patrol and Black Eyed Peas. Full dates after the jump.
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Trent Reznor revealed on his Twitter page that the opening act for this summer’s recently announced Nine Inch Nails/Jane’s Addiction tour will be Street Sweeper, a side project of Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello and Coup MC Boots Riley. The tour dates that have been announced thus far can be viewed after the jump.
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Prefix Magazine reports that Guns N’ Roses are in the final stages of planning a summer tour of American stadiums. This tour, the band’s first since 2006, will be the first in promotion of the 14-years-in-the-making Chinese Democracy, which was released last November as a Best Buy exclusive.

The band’s current lineup includes frontman Axl Rose (the only remaining member from the Guns lineup that recorded 1987’s hard-rock touchstone Appetite for Destruction), guitarists Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal and Richard Fortus, bassist Tommy Stinson, keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Chris Pittman, and drummers Brian Mantia and Frank Ferrer.

-Sean Highkin