Packing Heat: Rapper Lil Wayne has announced his upcoming America’s Most Wanted tour supporting new album “I Am Not a Human Being II.” Featuring friends T.I., Future and French Montana, the tour will begin July 9 at the Oak Mountain Amphitheatre in Birmingham, Ala., four months after his health scare. Booked by the Richard de la Font Agency, the run will hit the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Fla. (July 14), Time Warner Pavilion in Raleigh, N.C. (July 27), FedEx Forum in Memphis (Aug. 14) and Fiddler’s Green in Denver (Aug. 23).
Transcended Youth: Folk heros the Mountain Goats will head out on the Tuttlingen Warriors tour (the name is apparently an inside joke). The band’s John Darnielle and Peter Hughes will hit the road as a duo, leaving their third member, Superchunk’s Jon Wurster, out of the mix for the first time since 2006. Booked by Adam Voith of Billions Corp., the tour will touch down at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. (May 1) before hitting Maxwell’s in Hoboken, N.J. (June 5), Lincoln Hall in Chicago (June 17) and Soapbox in Wilmington, N.C. (June 28).
‘Sup, Dude: New Jersey garage-rock band Titus Andronicus has revealed plans for the second running of its Bring Back the Dudes tour with Brooklyn pals So So Glos, which last time “left a trail of havoc and mayhem from sea to shining sea,” TA frontman Patrick Stickles says. Booked by John McCauley at Ground Control Touring, the tour will run through Space in Hamden, Conn. (April 28, Mohawk in Austin (May 9), the Stone Fox in Nashville (May 13) and Black Cat in Washington, D.C. (May 19).
Back On: The newly reunited Jonas Brothers are planning their Jonas Brothers Live tour–their first North American trek in three years–in support of new single “Pom Poms” and a forthcoming fifth studio LP. The JoBro train will start off at the Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island in Chicago (July 10), then make stops at the Blossom Music Center in Cleveland (July 16), Red Hat Amphitheatre in Raleigh, N.C. (July 31), Comerica Theatre in Phoenix (Aug. 9) and the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles (Aug. 16).