R.E.M. Thinking Small for Headlining Tour
527721
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - R.E.M. hopes to get up close and  personal with fans by staging its most intimate North American  tour in 15 years.
734154
Georgia rockers R.E.M. and the Black  Crowes have joined the lineup of the South by Southwest music  festival and conference in Austin (March 12-16).
257994
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Since establishing himself as a solo  artist, Sting's tour's have become grand affairs featuring  large bands. That will change in April, when he launches the  Broken Music tour, backed by just three players.
263608
NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Having assembled her elaborate  Hello, I'm Dolly show, Dolly Parton has made a renewed  commitment to touring. Just don't call it a farewell tour.
657327
DUBLIN (Billboard) - Ireland's High Court has issued a request for Eminem to come to Dublin to give evidence explaining the last-minute cancellation of the rapper's proposed concert at Slane Castle in 2005.
488874
LOS ANGELES/NASHVILLE (Billboard) - With about 115 dates  already slotted, U2's 2005 world tour will likely surpass its  last outing in capacity and dollars.
674915
NEW YORK (Billboard) - R.E.M. will perform three songs with   original drummer Bill Berry to celebrate its induction into the   Georgia Music Hall of Fame, to be held September 16 in Atlanta.
11015
This self-described Brooklyn bar band has toured the country and taken notes.
519042
The Rolling Stones will return to North America this fall as part of their ongoing "A Bigger Bang" tour. The Stones, now packing venues in Europe, will open the tour Sept. 20 in Boston's Gillette Stadium. Other stops include Chicago, Seattle, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Vancouver, British Columbia, with the final stop in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium on Nov. 18.
82639
Motley Crue, the hard-living Los  Angeles heavy metal band that symbolized rock'n'roll excess in  the 1980s, is reuniting for a world tour beginning next  February in Florida, it announced on Monday.
307271
There is speculation that members of the legendary rock group Led Zeppelin might go on a reunion tour.
120378
ATLANTA  &#151; American Idol runner-up Diana DeGarmo will be sharing a concert venue with Alicia Keys, Good Charlotte and Chingy at a holiday show next month at the Philips Arena.
216615
The remaining members of rock band Queen are to go on tour with a new frontman in Freddie Mercury's place.
358026
Heavy metal group Motley Crue announced yesterday that they are to reunite for a world tour to begin in February. The original members of the band last played together six years ago.
582918
It's shaping up to be a banner week  for the original four members of R.E.M., who have reconvened to  rehearse for a three-song performance at their Saturday  induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Atlanta.
120938
The original members of 1980s glam metal band Motley Crue, famous for their wild lifestyle and songs like Smokin&#39; in the Boys&#39; Room and Girls, Girls, Girls, has announced a reunion tour.
596360
Rock music's biggest freak show is taking its show on the road. And the bigger question for Motley Crue is whether the band known for its excesses (sex, drugs and fighting) can keep it together for a year on tour.