Fans of jam-band stylings and live music alike have plenty to look forward to this week, as the latest studio album from Dave Matthews Band [ tickets ] and live releases from both Pearl Jam [ tickets ] and Cheap Trick [ tickets ] top the current batch of new releases.

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Dave Matthews Band is back with “Everyday” (RCA), the follow-up to 1998’s “Before These Crowded Streets.” The new album features the hit single “I Did It.”

To promote the release of “Everyday,” Dave Matthews Band is scheduled to perform on “The Late Show with David Letterman” on Monday night (2/26). The group will also be featured in a special one-hour episode of “Charlie Rose” that same day.

On April 21, the group will launch a tour of U.S. amphitheaters and stadiums. Neil Young & Crazy Horse will open the first show on the tour, according to Dave Matthews Band’s official website. Singer Macy Gray is slated to open most subsequent stadium dates on the tour.

“I Did It,” the first single from “Everyday,” is currently No. 2 on trade publication Radio & Records’ latest adult alternative national airplay chart. The group released the song via the controversial Napster file-sharing network in January.

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Pearl Jam’s latest gargantuan offering of official “bootlegs” surfaces this week with Epic’s release of 23 2-CD sets that were taped during the first leg of the group’s 2000 North American tour. The albums capture the tour’s Aug. 3 kick-off in Virginia Beach through the Sept. 5 show in Pittsburgh.

A second batch of 2-CD sets is slated to drop on March 27, and will encompass the remaining 24 dates on the group’s 2000 North American outing (Oct. 4-Nov. 6). Beginning Monday (2/26), fans can pre-order any or all of the discs from the forthcoming second batch via the band’s official website. Members of the group’s official fan club are entitled to a discount price.

Earlier this month, Epic announced plans to release a live DVD titled “Pearl Jam: Touring Band 2000” on April 10. The release will contain footage from both the European and North American legs of the group’s 2000 tour.

Last September, Pearl Jam released 25 official “bootlegs” recorded during its 2000 European outing. Five of those 2-CD sets debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart.

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Cheap Trick delivers “Silver” (Cheap Trick Unlimited Records) this week, a 2-CD set that captures the group’s 25th anniversary concert in its hometown of Rockford, Illinois. The concert took place in August 1999 at Rockford’s Davis Park.

“Silver” features guest appearances from Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), Slash (Guns N Roses, Slash’s Snakepit), Art Alexakis (Everclear), Jon Brant (Cheap Trick’s bassist in the mid-‘80s) and band members Rick Nielsen's and Robin Zander's "offspring," as well as members of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, the Harlem High School Choir from Loves Park, Ill., and Rockford’s Phantom Regiment Drum Corp, according to a group press release.

"It’s kind of nice to be able to bring it back home for the home folks … at least once every 25 years," said Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos in a statement. "It was our way of saying, ‘Here’s what we’ve been doing lately.’ Also, since we have at least one song from every album, it’s an education to those who only know us from our greatest hits."

The group plans to release a DVD of the concert later this year.

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Powerman 5000 [ tickets ] releases its first home video this week. Titled “Backstage & Beyond the Infinite” (DreamWorks), the release will contain all of the group’s music videos, live performances and off-stage footage. It is being offered in both DVD and VHS formats.

The group is due to release a new album in June, according to its official website. Its last release was 1999’s “Tonight the Stars Revolt.”

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