Foo Fighters have a smattering of new U.S. dates. Look for the Foos in Dallas, Nashville, Worcester, Philly and Detroit in January and February ’08.

Both Celine Dion and Joe Cocker have Aussie dates. Ms. Dion plays the continent in March and April while Mr. Cocker arrives during the last week of January and stays through mid February.

James Blunt travels to the United Kingdom in mid January and then its off to the continent for a series of shows starting in March and running through the first week of April.

Smashing Pumpkins have a short U.K. run; theSTART are in Europe and the U.K. through mid December and Van Halen adds 3 U.S. dates for ’08 in Oklahoma City, Houston and Omaha.

During the past 90 minutes we also updated the schedules for Rod Stewart, Starship Starring Mickey Thomas, Bettye LaVette, Athlete, Adrian Belew, Buddy Guy, BulletBoys, Estradasphere and VHS or Beta.

But it’s still early here at Pollstar’s Tour Date Central & Chocolate Research Center, and we have tons of concert data to enter and pounds of chocolate yet to taste. Be sure to catch your next update scheduled for around 12 noon from Pollstar.com!