Dave Matthews Band announced the dates for its 2009 tour on its web site. Luckily, the band will visit all three area cities.
DMB will open it summer tour at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center in Darien Lake, N.Y. on May 27. Robert Randolph and the Family Band will open. The band plays two nights at Post-Gazette Pavilion in Burgettstown -- June 19-20, with the Hold Steady opening. DMB will then swing into Blossom Music Center near Cleveland on July 29 with Old Crow Medicine Show opening up.
Tickets for all the above shows will go on sale March 13 at Ticketmaster.
DMB releases its next CD on June 2. Rob Cavallo, best known for his work with Green Day, produced.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss soared to No. 2 on the latest Billboard album chart after winning five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. Rolling Stone and other sites also report Plant/Krauss have already started work on a follow-up with T Bone Burnett, which further suggests Plant will never do a Led Zeppelin reunion. Why would he; he's on a roll?

Chautauqua Amphitheater has booked something unusual: a one-man show with Seinfeld veteran Jason Alexander on July 31. He'll perform "Donnie Clay Will Show You the Way," a wicked spoof on motivational speakers.

Details are sketchy on who'll present at the Oscars on Sunday but word is "Twilight's" Robert Pattinson will definitely appear. Several web sites also say Zac Efron, Beyonce, and Miley Cryus are also going to appear -- most likely in a big production number with host Hugh Jackman..
Wait: Isn't this the Oscars, not the Grammys?