Today's edition features news and tour information about Filter [ tickets ], the Toadies [ tickets ], Rancid [ tickets ], Bob Dylan [ tickets ] and Al Green [ tickets ].

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After a five-year hiatus, alt-rockers Filter [ tickets ] are back with a new album and plans for a US outing. The tour's first leg--a mix of headlining gigs and radio festivals--is set to kick off April 24 with three shows in Texas, after which the group will travel around the eastern half of the country through early June. The roadwork couches the May 13 release of the resuscitated group's forthcoming album, "Anthems for the Damned."

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The Toadies [ tickets ] will take their slowly evolving reunion plans to the next level this summer when the rockers hit the tour trail for a series of shows well outside of their Texas stomping grounds. So far, the group has mapped a batch of late-June shows that begin with a pair of dates in the Lone Star State and a one-off Atlanta performance, after which they'll head up the East Coast for engagements in New York City, Philadelphia, the Boston area and Washington, DC. The Northeast Corridor appearances mark the group's first live work in the region since breaking up in 2001.

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Rancid [ tickets ] is working on a new album that is expected to drop around the same time the punk-rockers dive into their first North American tour since 2006. The band, which is currently wrapping a short tour of Japan, will kick off the North American trek June 10 in Tucson and visit clubs and theaters across the US and Canada through mid-August.

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Fresh off winning a Pulitzer Prize, Bob Dylan [ tickets ] has lined up a brief North American outing next month before heading overseas for a longer summer run through Europe. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will concentrate primarily on Canadian cities during the run, which kicks off just this side of the border with a May 17th concert in Lewiston, ME. Earlier this month, Dylan was awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize for what the awards cited as his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."

* * * R&B legend Al Green [ tickets ] has lined up a summer schedule ahead of his highly anticipated new studio album, "Lay It Down," which is due in stores May 27. Green will tackle an April 27 slot at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival before heading out for a few headlining dates in May, and will launch his tour in earnest with a June 19 show in Toronto.