Grunge-rock veterans Stone Temple Pilots [ tickets ], who called it quits back in 2002, will reconvene this spring.

"Stone Temple Pilots are back," reads a one-line announcement posted at the band's official website. The site also heralds a May 17 performance at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, OH, part of the May 17-18 Rock on the Range [ tickets ] festival, which will be the band's first live show in almost six years. Further reunion plans haven't been announced.

"The time that we're about to spend together is a true celebration," STP guitarist Dean DeLeo said in a Rock on the Range press release.

The band's official reunion announcement follows rumblings that began last month when STP frontman Scott Weiland, who has spent the past several years helming rock supergroup Velvet Revolver, told the Miami Herald that fans should be on the lookout for an STP reunion in the coming months.

Also last month, ex-Guns N' Roses/current Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash told Billboard that Weiland was planning to rejoin his former STP bandmates for a "handful of summer reunion shows."

News of STP's reunion comes just days after Weiland, who has a long history of drug addiction, checked himself into a rehab facility following Velvet Revolver's Feb. 6 performance in Los Angeles. The move forced the band to postpone its previously scheduled Feb. 7 concert in San Diego, which was slated to cap off the group's latest US tour.

According to its website, Velvet Revolver is scheduled to launch a five-date Australian tour Friday (2/15), followed by a European outing in March. At press time, the group's management had not responded to a request for information about how Weiland's rehab stay and the impending STP reunion will impact VR's plans.

Stone Temple Pilots--Weiland, brothers Dean DeLeo (guitar) and Robert DeLeo (bass), and Eric Kretz (drums)--parted ways after completing a tour behind 2001's "Shangri-La Dee Da," which is the band's most recent studio album. A best-of set titled "Thank You" followed in 2003.

While Weiland went on to join Velvet Revolver, the DeLeo brothers co-founded rock quartet Army of Anyone with Filter frontman Richard Patrick and former David Lee Roth Band drummer Ray Luzier. The band released its self-titled debut in late 2006, but has since slipped into hibernation. Patrick recently announced plans for a new Filter album.