Hot Topic Presents “Summer Slaughter Tour” featuring The Black Dahlia Murder, Kataklysm, Vader, Cryptopsy, The Faceless, Despised Icon, Aborted, Born Of Osiris, Psycroptic and Whitechapel just might be coming to your town! That is, if your town is on the schedule. A June / July tour, cities include Detroit, Albany, New York, Atlanta, Houston, El Paso, Bakersfield, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

We just posted several new Canadian dates for Leonard Cohen, including May dates for Fredericton (New Brunswick), Halifax (Nova Scotia), Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island), Glace Bay (Nova Scotia), Moncton (New Brunswick), St. John’s (Newfoundland) and Chicoutimi (Quebec). June additions include Ontario towns Kitchener, Hamilton and Toronto.

Kraftwerk updates today with three new shows – April 19 (St. Paul, MN), April 20 (Milwaukee, WI) and April 23 (Denver, CO).

During the first couple of hours of pressing our noses to that ol’ tour-research grindstone we also updated the schedules for Angie Stone, 16 Volt, Bloodkin, The Dollyrots, The Medic Droid, The Phenomenauts and Howe Gelb.

And there’s more yet to come! However, we should mention our corporate overlords just told us we’re signing off early today due to the Easter weekend (actually, they need us to wash and wax their autos). In other words, we’ll only have one more update today – The Closing Bell – coming up sometime after 12 noon (PDT), from Pollstar.com!