Yahoo! Music — Reuters - The Dave Matthews Band will launch its spring tour at New York's Madison Square Garden on April 14, the same day its new studio album arrives in stores. more info

Rolling Stone — The Dave Matthews Band have announced the first dates of their 2009 tour and revealed that their still-untitled new album will be released April 12th. The album, DMB’s first since 2005’s Stand Up, was produced by Rob Cavallo, who’s known for hi... more info

JamBase — DAVE MATTHEWS BAND ANNOUNCES SPRING 2009 TOUR First Studio Album In Four Years Set For April 14 Release Online Ticket Request Period Begins Today; Tickets Go On Sale January 17 To Public Dave Matthews On April 14, Dave Matthews Band returns w... more info

Stereogum — The group's first studio LP since 2005's Stand Up comes out 4/14, and they'll support with a spring tour that kicks off at Madison Square Garden that night. The still untitled album will be produced by Rob Cavallo, who helmed most of Green Day's disc... more info

Buzzgrinder — Dave Matthews Band - DMB Live Trax Vol. 13 Release date: Dec. 16, 2008 [amazon.com] If the subtitle didn't give it away, the telltale Arch did. I was intrigued with this mostly because of the Busch Stadium/St. Louis cityscape photo. It bears a strik... more info

Idolator — In the face of tough economic times and not very many big-ticket shows, the concert industry actually did better this summer than it did in 2007! Well, if you only look at one measure of the industry, anyway. Billboard reports that overall concert gr... more info

Pop Matters — Austin rockers lobby to be compared to Spoon and Arcade Fire... but sound more like the Counting Crows, the Dave Matthews Band and the Spin Doctors. more info

Starpulse — Rising gas prices and recession fears didn't upset Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' tour-- the veteran rockers beat The Police and Dave Matthews Band to top the touring charts in North America this summer.[...] Read more! more info

Rising gas prices and recession fears didn't upset Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' tour-- the veteran rockers beat The Police and Dave Matthews Band to top the touring charts in North America this summer.[...] Read more! more info

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