As it prepares to launch an exhaustive summer tour, The Dave Matthews Band [ tickets ] has announced a late summer date in Atlanta to benefit that city's largest urban park.

The group will play a Sept. 8 concert in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, with special guests The Allman Brothers Band. All proceeds from the show will benefit the park, which is Atlanta's equivalent of New York's Central Park, and "aid in the enhancement and preservation of the park as a vital, urban green space offering cultural and recreational resources to all who visit," according to a press release.

Pre-sale tickets for the show are available exclusively to DMB fan association members through the band's special fan website, as well as members of the Piedmont Park Conservancy, with the pre-sales beginning today (5/31) and running through June 7.

DMB's summer tour kicks off July 8 in Bridgeview, IL, with more than 35 shows leading up to a season-ending five-show California run in late September/early October. The trek includes two-night stands in Mansfield, MA; Hartford, CT; Camden, NJ; Noblesville, IN; East Troy, WI; West Palm Beach, FL; and Los Angeles. The band will also do a three-day gig--with an option for camping--at George, WA's famed Gorge Amphitheatre Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Details are listed below.

In addition to trotting the globe, Dave Matthews Band [ tickets ] is expected to put out its seventh studio album this year. Details have not yet been released. In the meantime, Vol. 8 of the band's "Live Trax" series came out earlier this month.

The Grammy-winning band's latest studio effort is 2005's platinum-selling "Stand Up."

A recording of Matthews' and guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Tim Reynolds' April show at New York's Radio City Music Hall will be released soon on CD and DVD, according to the band; a specific release date hasn't been finalized. The set will be the first Matthews/Reynolds release since 1999's two-disc "Live at Luther College."