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Reggae-rockers 311 and rap star Snoop Dogg will hit the road together this summer for an outing dubbed the Unity Tour 2008. The run is set to kick off June 24 in Phoenix and travel from the West Coast to the East Coast, with a two-night finale set for Aug. 2nd and 3rd in Austin, TX. Special guest Fiction Plane will open the shows, most of which will take place in amphitheaters.

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Singer Scott Weiland won't have to worry about dividing his time between the reunited Stone Temple Pilots and supergroup Velvet Revolver , as the latter act has given the singer the boot—or Weiland has quit, depending on who's telling the story.

In a he-said/they-said volley of press releases issued yesterday and today , Velvet Revolver co-founders Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum (all former members of Guns N' Roses), along with fellow co-founding VR guitarist Dave Kushner, announced that they were "parting ways with singer Scott Weiland."

Weiland--who had been engaged in a public feud with Sorum during recent weeks--responded to VR's announcement with a press release of his own, in which he said:

"After reading the comment by Duff, Matt, Dave and the illustrious 'GUITAR HERO,' Saul Hudson, a.k.a Slash, I find it humorous that the so-called four 'founding members' of Velvet Revolver, better known to themselves as 'the Project' before I officially named the band, would decide to move on without me after I had already claimed the group dead in the water on March 20 in Glasgow."

With that bridge effectively scorched, Weiland can now focus on his upcoming summer reunion tour with Stone Temple Pilots, whose other returning members may currently be watching the Velvet Revolver spectacle and remembering why the split with the singer six years ago.

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The Steve Miller Band will return to the road in late May for its 2008 North American summer tour, and fellow rock veteran Joe Cocker will come along for the ride. The musicians are set to launch the 37-city jaunt May 24 in West Palm Beach, FL, and crisscross the US through mid-August.

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Rage Against the Machine guitarist and co-founder Tom Morello will launch a two-week tour in April--dubbed the Justice Tour--that focuses on social justice through music and local activism. Joining Morello at various stops along the tour will be Ben Harper, Slash, Perry Farrell, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Davey Havok of AFI, Boots Riley of The Coup, Maynard James Keenan of Tool and Puscifer, Shooter Jennings, State Radio, Mike Einzinger of Incubus and MC5 founder Wayne Kramer.

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British pop-rockers Oasis are coming to North America this summer for a short run of dates that will culminate with a headlining performance at Toronto's Virgin Festival. The band will start Aug. 26 in Seattle, WA, playing its first live show in more than two years, and then move on to Canadian gigs in Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals will serve as special guests on concerts ahead of the Sept. 7 Virgin Festival.