Tickets for Dave Matthews Bands' North American tour go on sale this Saturday, March 29th, and fans who purchase through Ticketmaster.com (http://www.ticketmaster.com) will receive a special bonus: an exclusive, free digital album comprised of highlights from the 40-city tour. Each ticket purchased through http://www.ticketmaster.com will receive a unique code in mid-September that can be redeemed for the digital album on the iTunes Store - a month before it goes on sale to the general public. Offer is valid only for venues ticketed by Ticketmaster.

Dave Matthews Band fan association members who have already purchased tickets through the Warehouse pre-sale will also receive a unique code in mid-September that will enable them to receive a free copy of the digital album via iTunes.

This year's tour commences with a two-night stand at Post-Gazette Pavilion in Burgettstown, PA (May 30th & 31st) and concludes with three consecutive dates at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA (September 5th, 6th and 7th). See below for a full tour itinerary. On-sale dates may vary in some markets, so check with your local venue or ticket retailer for specifics.

Dave Matthews Band is currently working with producer Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Alanis Morissette) on its latest album. Guitarist and longtime friend Tim Reynolds has joined the band in the studio for the first time since 1998's Before These Crowded Streets. The as-yet-untitled album is the follow-up to 2005's Stand Up, which was the fourth consecutive Dave Matthews Band studio record to debut at #1 on The Billboard 200.

Comprised of Carter Beauford (drums), Stefan Lessard (bass), Dave Matthews (vocals, guitar), LeRoi Moore (saxophone) and Boyd Tinsley (violin) - Dave Matthews Band has sold a collective 35 million units (CD and DVD combined) since the 1994 release of its major label debut, Under the Table and Dreaming. And with 14 million tickets sold, the band is consistently one of the top draws on the concert circuit.

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Valient Himself announced today that Valient Thorr will be postponing all activities April 15th through June 10th to allow him to donate a kidney to his ailing father. Valient's decisionap logo to take public what is a private family event stems from the National Kidney Foundation's outreach. As Valient Thorr is on a single-minded mission to spread their message of redemption wrapped in rock n' roll, this is another chance to illuminate a critically important issue that people don't think about unless they are personally touched. Says Valient, "If I can go from a hospital bed to playing in front of a crowd of 75,000 at the UK's Download Festival in just eight weeks, people out there might consider becoming organ donors as well. If they have family members who need a kidney, it's definitely something to think about; and if not, they can still learn about designating themselves as organ donors on their driver's license." More information on kidney donations can be found at www.kidney.org or www.livingdonors.org

Says Catherine Paykin, Transplant Services Program Director, National Kidney Foundation, "We are delighted that Valient Himself has decided to take his donation story public. We hope that it serves to shed light on the lifesaving power of organ donation and encourages others to get involved. We wish him and his father a speedy recovery."

Prior to Valient Himself's scheduled surgery on April 29th, the band will play a private show at the Volcom skate park on April 8th to air May 29th on Fuel TV's Check 1, 2. They will resume their European tour on June 13th and return to the U.S. for a nationwide tour beginning in July. Information on specific dates will be posted as available on www.ValientThorr.com

Valient Thorr will release IMMORTALIZER on June 17 on Volcom Entertainment. The new record - their fourth in five years - is a testament to the band's hard-working existence, with a staggeringly productive tour schedule that finds them averaging close to 250 dates a year (this surgery rest being Valient's longest time off since 2003). IMMORTALIZER was recorded in Seattle with the legendary Jack Endino, producer of seminal albums by Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney as well as younger upstarts Hot Hot Heat and High On Fire. IMMORTALIZER follows in the footsteps of the band's self-released 2003 debut Stranded on Earth, their 2005 Volcom debut Total Universe Man, and 2006's Legend of the World. New guitarist Voiden Thorr brings a sharper metal edge into the fold, joining fellow six-stringer Eidan Thorr, drummer Lucian Thorr and bassist Nitewolf.

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The Verve will launch its first North American tour in nearly a decade with a special show at The Warfield in San Francisco, CA on April 23rd, warming up for its performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, CA on April 25th. The highly influential British quartet, which reformed in 2007, will preview material from its forthcoming album, the follow-up to 1997's Urban Hymns, which has sold eight million copies worldwide.

Tickets sold out in a mere 20 minutes last year when The Verve quietly announced its first U.K. shows since 1998. "The only reunion tour that could put Zeppelin in the shade kicks off and leaves us in no doubt: this is History," said NME, pronouncing the band's first two shows as "nothing short of astonishing." The Guardian praised the group's "stellar return," marveling at "the eerie chemistry that takes place when these four musicians play" while The Observer said: "The Verve are still as beautifully, uniquely energising as ever." The band followed its November dates with a December U.K. arena tour and will play numerous European and Japanese festivals this summer.

The Verve's live shows are as explosive as ever, running the gamut from material so new that Richard Ashcroft sings the lyrics from scraps of paper to long-lost, hazy B-sides ("Let The Damage Begin," "A Man Called Sun") and, of course, their extraordinary string of singles ("Bitter Sweet Symphony," "The Drugs Don't Work," "Lucky Man," "History," "This Is Music," to name but a few). When the band takes the stage, literally anything can happen as setlists are rearranged at will and songs blast off wherever they want to take them in a magnificent improvisation.

Comprised of Richard Ashcroft (lead vocals), Simon Jones (bass), Nick McCabe (guitar) and Peter Salisbury (drums), The Verve formed in 1990 while the four were at college in Wigan, an industrial town in Greater Manchester county. 2003's A Storm In Heaven, the band's full-length debut, introduced its adventurous "music of the spheres," which strove to break out of the stratosphere while simultaneously evoking life with a brutally down-to-earth, gritty realism. On each subsequent release - 1995's acclaimed A Northern Soul and 1997's landmark Urban Hymns - The Verve eclipsed itself, establishing a legacy that was acknowledged afresh last year when Q honored Urban Hymns with the magazine's first-ever "Classic Album" award.

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