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Scotland’s latest and most popular musical export, Snow Patrol, will be touring in the U.S. this spring, for a slate of dates between March and mid-May.

Before heading to this side of the pond, the boys –Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Paul Wilson, Jonny Quinn and Tom Simpson, all originally from either Scotland or Northern Ireland– will strike out on a UK-Ireland tour. Then they’ll land on our shores to kick off  in North America with their first show March 29 in Orlando, Fla. Other stops on the tour include Atlanta, Nashville, Washington, DC, Boston, Chicago, and Seattle, just to name a few. They finish plowing across the country May 18 in Houston.

U.S. fans are rejoicing as Anthrax has announced a second set of shows in support of their September 2011 album Worship Music.

The new 15 city tour kicks off on Jan. 22 at the Las Vegas House of Blues and wraps up on Feb. 8 at the Best Buy Theatre in New York City. Anthrax tickets can also be had for Jan. 23 at the Anaheim House of Blues, Jan. 24 at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Jan. 27 at Indianapolis' Old National Centre, Jan. 28 at Pieres in Fort Wayne, Jan. 29 at Expo Five in Louisville and Jan. 30 at the Orange Peel in Asheville.

It's official: Madonna is scheduled to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show.

The Material Girl is obviously no stranger to gigantic performances. Total, she has sold over 300 million records and performed countless concerts, but this might be her most viewed performance yet. More than 162 million people will be tuning in to NBC on Feb. 5 to watch the two remaining NFL teams go head to head. The Super Bowl XLVI will be held at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, and Madonna will be joined by amazing performers Cirque du Soleil.

Congratulations to Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott who wed her long-time boyfriend, Chris Tyrrell, over the weekend in upstate New York. The happy couple made a personal announcement on the Lady A official website because they wanted to be the first to tell the fans.

Miss Hillary Scott Tyrrell wore a custom-made Vera Wang wedding gown for an intimate ceremony of family and close friends. Tyrrell donned a gray Ermenegildo Zegna suit. In their video message to fans, however, they were totally informal in cute matching t-shirts.

Donning what can only be described as ‘outrigger chic’ overalls and cap, David Lee Roth and the other members of the reformed Van Halen– brothers Eddie and Alex, plus Eddie’s son Wolfgang on bass–took to the stage in a small NYC club last night to announce their 2012 tour.

The supergroup performed at Roth’s uncle’s Cafe Wha? in New York’s West Village to an intimate and oh so lucky crowd, which included several notable celebs, like Bob Dylan and John McEnroe. Roth joked with the crowd, "I'm more nervous about this gig than I would ever be in the Garden,” and “The last time I stood on a stage this low, I had to get the car home by midnight."

With the legal battles with the record company behind him, Tim McGraw is ready to move forward and finally release his latest studio album, Emotional Traffic. The date has been set for January 24.

Music from the new album has already hit the airwaves, notably the No. 1 single “Felt Good on My Lips,” but there are 11 more tracks to keep the fans happy with new tunes. What makes them even happier is to hear them performed live, which they’ll be able to do very soon.

Longtime GWAR guitarist Cory Smoot has died.

Smoot, 34, was best known as Flattus Maximus in the band GWAR. After a performance in Minneapolis on Nov. 3, Smoot retired to the tour bus where his bandmates found him already dead.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are on fire! They will be celebrating the release of their tenth studio album, I’m With You, with a sweeping North American tour dubbed the same.

The “I’m With You” tour kicks off shortly after the New Year on 1/20/2012 at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla. They’ll slink around the southeast during January, hitting Tampa, Charlotte, NC, Columbia, SC, and Duluth, GA, among others. Then they’ll emerge in Memphis and New Orleans before jumping to over for several dates on the West Coast in February– Oakland, two nights in LA, San Diego. March finds them still sticking close to warmer weather, with stops in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Check out the full tour schedule at redhotchilipeppers.com.

America’s fickle love affair with Kanye West continues. He is the Grammy frontrunner, snagging seven nominations, which were announced last night during a nominations concert in Los Angeles.

West earned nods in the following categories: Song of the Year (for “All of the Lights”); Best Rap Album (for Watch the Throne, with Jay-Z, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy); Best Rap Performance (for “Otis,” with Jay-Z); Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (for “All of the Lights”); Best Rap Song (for “All of the Lights” and “Otis”).

The details are skimpy, but that doesn’t detract from the fact that Bruce Springsteen will be touring in 2012!

The good news was reported on The Boss’ official website in a vague statement, “A lot of you have been hearing that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be on tour in 2012. That is absolutely correct. The European dates run from the middle of May until end of July and are being announced this week. Info on the US dates and the World tour dates will coming up shortly.”

It’s gone from rumor to fact in eight months flat - Black Sabbath is reuniting, recording and touring in 2012!

All four original Sabbath members–Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward–are back in the studio working on their first album of original music in 33 years. This comes quickly on the heels of a press conference on 11.11.11 announcing the news of their reunion and first small batch of tour dates, starting in Europe next summer, and including a headlining appearance at the Download Festival in Derby, England, on June 10. Other stops include Moscow (May 18), Helsinki, Finland (May 23), Bilboa, Spain (June 15), and Milan, Italy (June 24), just to name a few. Check out the full tour schedule here.

60 Minutes, most successful broadcast in TV history, meet Taylor Swift, most successful artist in music history.

Taylor Swift fans already get to share the country superstar’s life via her Facebook page and her Twitter account. But now, the rest of mainstream America can succumb to her charms when she makes an appearance on this weekend’s edition of 60 Minutes.

Is Korn going electronic? Not exactly. But they are experimenting with this musical genre on their upcoming album, The Path Of Totality (P.O.T.).

These masters of metal worked with some of the biggest names in electronic music on their new studio album, which comes out December 6. Fans will enjoy collaboration with Skrillex, Datsik, Kill the Noise, 12th Planet, Feed Me and Noisia. And some of these new music partners will join Korn on the road this fall.

Adele’s stellar album 21 is still top of the charts, so it’s no stretch that she has snagged the most nominations for this year’s American Music Awards.

The British singing sensation has garnered four nominations: favorite female artist, favorite adult contemporary artist, favorite album for 21, and the top honor, artist of the year. Her competition is drenched in divas, including Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. Lil Wayne is the only male artists with multiple noms, earning three.

Radiohead fans were tricked a couple weeks ago after they gathered outside Zuccotti Park hoping for a concert. Posters on several social media websites had claimed that the band would gather on Wall Street to show support for the big business protesters. Though the band's management had repeatedly denied the rumors, some of the band members were reported to have told the fans directly.

It wasn't until hundreds of fans gathered in the park near Wall Street that the protest organizer sent out an e-mail saying that the show wouldn't go on. Looks like the only way fans are going to see a show is with Radiohead tickets. And, unfortunately, Radiohead tour dates have just dried up. Don't worry though! Radiohead is sure to be back on the touring market soon to continue spreading the word about their new album, The King of Limbs, which debuted in February.

B.B. King’s contribution to the world of music has been officially recognised by the state in which he grew up, Mississippi.

The Mississippi Medal of Service award was created in 2009 by Gov. Haley Barbour, who was also there to present the award at the Woolfolk building in downtown Jackson. There were a total of eleven recipients of this year’s award, as well as over 100 additional attendees to the ceremony.

Brian Regan is embarking on a massive U.S. tour after the New Year to bring his brand of comedy to the masses.

The tour kicks off on Jan. 5 at the Walton Art Center in Fayetteville and runs all the way through June 9 at the Uptown Theatre in Napa, Calif. Additional Brian Regan tickets are available for the Palace Theatre in Albany on Jan. 13, Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City from Jan. 18-21 and 25-28, Denver's Wells Fargo Theatre on Feb. 25, Pabst Theater in Milwaukee on March 3 and many more.

Louis C.K. has been staying busy with his latest endeavor, Live at the Beacon Theater.

The video is unlike anything Louis has done in the past, as he's packaged everything together and put it up for sale online for just $5. Earlier this week, Louis C.K. posted on his official website that after just 12 days of having the video up for sale he has raised just over 1 million dollars. Just about half of the cost will go toward paying for the cost of production, website development and staff. Another $280,000 will be given to five charities throughout the world, leaving the smallest amount of money to the man who put the whole project together.

Comedian Mike Epps is going to be very busy in 2012, starting with his “I’m Still Standing” comedy tour.

This outing takes him back and forth across the country during most of the first part of the year, but Epps will kick things off in style with a performance New Year’s Eve in Miami at the James L Knight Center. Other tour stop highlights include Indianapolis, IN, Houston, TX, Washington, DC, Greenville, SC, New York, NY, Cleveland, OH, Milwaukee, WI, Baltimore, MD and Birmingham, AL. You can find the complete tour schedule at mikeepps.com.

Noone does food comedy like Jim Gaffigan. It is a key ingredient - no pun intended - to his notoriously clean stand up routines when he is on the road.

Gaffigan grew up in the food cultural void of Indiana, where staples are meat and potatoes. The state is landlocked, apart from one tiny northwest corner that sits on one of Great Lakes. Hence his distate for seafood. Like mussels. He’s said, “What is the recipe of mussels? That’s just like sea bugs and butter, right? Why don’t you just have the butter?”

The rumors are true…Lewis Black has entered the Twitosphere. If you would like to glimpse into Black’s dark mind on a daily basis, then follow @TheLewisBlack.

So what possessed Black to join Twitter? Would you believe peer pressure?! His friend and fellow comic Kathleen Madigan convinced Lewis over the summer that Twitter isn’t all that bad.  And apparently red wine was also part of the equation. According to Lewis, Madigan ultimately shamed him into joining her in the Twitterverse, where she has several thousand followers herself and enjoys using the social media platform to share her humorous observations.

Leave it to Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall to start a quarterback controversy just weeks into the offseason.

Marshall caught four touchdown passes in a dominant Pro Bowl performance and wasn’t afraid to give the credit to his quarterbacks.

The Detroit Tigers came out of virtually nowhere to sign first baseman Prince Fielder to a nine-year contract worth $214 million.

While Fielder will be a menace in Detroit’s lineup for years to come, it’s certainly a huge risk to lock him up for such a long, lucrative deal.

The Texas Rangers waited until the last possible moment before agreeing to a deal with Japanese pitching sensation Yu Darvish.

The team had just minutes to agree to a deal with Darvish before they would lost their rights to work out a contract agreement with him.

Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard added the Los Angeles Clippers to the list of teams to which he would accept a trade.

The Magic seem intent on holding on to Howard for the entire season despite the fact that he will become a free agent at the end of the year.

The New England Patriots took down Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos, 45-10, to advance to the AFC championship game.

Quarterback Tom Brady threw for 361 yards and six touchdowns to go along with just one interception in a game that was never really in doubt.

The New York Jets are off to a tumultuous offseason thanks to comments being made by some players about their quarterback.

Several Jets players have come out and said that they think the team should try to pry Peyton Manning away from the Indianapolis Colts.

In somewhat of a surprising move, the Polians have been fired by the Indianapolis Colts after their 2-14 season.

The Polians helped build the Colts into one of the league’s top franchises and were known as some of the most shrewd talent evaluators in the business.

The New York Jets slim playoff hopes were dashed in a loss to the Miami Dolphins, but the actions of wideout Santonio Holmes seemed to be the bigger story afterward.

Running back LaDainian Tomlinson was quick to throw Holmes under the bus, saying he didn’t have a good demeanor in the huddle and other players weren’t happy about it.

The St. Louis Rams have fired head coach Steve Spagnuolo and general manager Bill Devaney after winning just two games this season.

Spagnuolo has only been with the Rams for a couple of years now, and it seems like a bit of a quick trigger to fire him already.

The Cincinnati Bengals are asking their fans for support as they head into one of their biggest regular season games of the past decade.

The Bengals will clinch a playoff berth at home with a win over the Baltimore Ravens, one of the NFL’s top teams.

The Maryland Terrapins made their first big offseason move, hiring Mike Locksley to be their new offensive coordinator.

Locksley previously spent time with the Terps, helping to bring in the recruiting classes that lead to three straight 10-win seasons under Ralph Friedgen.

The Orlando Magic have taken center Dwight Howard off the trade block, but “Superman” still wants to be dealt.

Howard seems to change his mind about what he wants to do and where he wants to go more often than the wind blows.

The Baltimore Orioles came away from the Winter Meetings without much to show for the trip, but that doesn’t mean it will be a quiet offseason.

GM Dan Duquette believes the team could complete a couple trades in the near future based off of conversations he had at the Winter Meetings.

Despite already playing once earlier in the year, the Alabama Crimson Tide will get another shot at the LSU Tigers in the BCS National Championship game.

Some expected Oklahoma State would get the honor of playing LSU after they thrashed Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship game. A lot of fans wanted to see Oklahoma State over Alabama after the Tide played such a low-scoring game against the Tigers earlier in the season.

The Maryland Terrapins picked up arguably their biggest win of the season with a 78-71 victory over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the BB&T Classic.

Point guard Terrell Stoglin carried the Terps with 31 points but also got some help from his teammates for a change, especially down the stretch. Sean Mosley finished with 17 points and three assists and James Padgett recorded the first double-double of his career. Ashton Pankey played just one minute in the game, and head coach Mark Turgeon later explained that it wasn’t an injury-related decision.

The Minnesota Vikings have parted ways with veteran quarterback Donovan McNabb, cutting him with just five games to play.

McNabb was traded from the Washington Redskins to the Minnesota Vikings in the offseason but was a major disappointment. The team got off to a terrible start with McNabb at quarterback and was never even a part of the playoff race. Once it seemed like the season wasn’t going anywhere, the team benched McNabb and named rookie Christian Ponder the starter.

The Washington Capitals have fired head coach Bruce Boudreau, replacing him with former player Dale Hunter.

Boudreau’s team got off to a hot start this year but has since faded, and criticism has mounted after each playoff failure. It seemed like only a matter of time until the team decided to go in another direction, although just one month into the season is a bit earlier than expected.

The Jacksonville Jaguars have fired head coach Jack Del Rio after a lackluster performance against the Houston Texans.

Del Rio’s head has been on the chopping block for a couple of seasons now, but it is surprising to see him go in the middle of the year. He most recently came under fire when he tossed his offensive coordinator under the bus when criticized over the play-calling.

Houston Texans quarterback Matt Leinart is likely to miss the rest of the season with a shoulder injury.

Leinart just took over the starting quarterback job this week after Matt Schaub was diagnosed with a season-ending foot injury.

The Ohio State Buckeyes announced Monday that Urban Meyer will be their next head coach.

Rumors that Meyer would eventually take the job began to swirl almost as soon as Jim Tressel was fired by the school.

The Maryland Terrapins kept their losing streak alive with a 45-21 loss to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at FedEx Field.

Maryland gave up a touchdown on Notre Dame’s first possession of the game and really never made a game of it.

The Kansas City Chiefs wasted a prime opportunity in an embarassing, 31-3 loss to the previously winless Miami Dolphins.

It was a game where the Chiefs literally could do no right, and the loss was particularly shocking since it came at Arrowhead Stadium.

The St. Louis Rams finally picked up a victory with a stunning, 31-21 upset of the New Orleans Saints.

It was the Rams first win of the year and a shocking one at that since quarterback Sam Bradford didn’t even play because of an ankle injury.

The Maryland Terrapins built a big lead and then watched it fall apart in the fourth quarter in a 56-45 loss to the Clemson Tigers on Homecoming.

The Terps gave sophomore C.J. Brown the start at quarterback over Danny O’ Brien, and that proved to be the correct decision.

The Baltimore Orioles are now in the process of interviewing multiple people for the open general manager position, which was vacated by Andy MacPhail.

Owner Peter Angelos and manager Buck Showalter are the point men in the interviews, with the lawyer leaning heavily on the skipper’s advice.

Did you see this coming? Did ANYONE see this coming?! Stumping the statisticians and defying the playoff odds, the Texas Rangers will be facing off against the St. Louis Cardinals for the 2011 World Series.

To reach the final show, the Rangers bested the Detroit Tigers Saturday night, taking the AL championship with a final 15-5 win in Game 5. The Cardinals defeated the Milwaukee Brewers during Game 6 last night, 12-6, to capture the NL championship and their 18th pennant.

NBA Commission David Stern has canceled the first two weeks of basketball’s season when yesterday’s negotiations ended without any resolutions and no further progress on a new labor deal. Opening night was scheduled for Nov. 1, so this cancelation affects all the games between Nov. 1-14 - 100 games total.

”The gap is so significant that we just can’t bridge it at this time,” Stern said. ”We certainly hoped it would never come to this.”