Nebraska-bred alt-rockers 311 [ tickets ], currently wrapping up a short series of Japanese dates, will return to North America at month's end to resume the "Soundsystem" tour. Beginning in late February--following shows in Honolulu, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas in late January and early February--an especially grueling schedule will take the band to more than 30 cities in just over a month.

According to the band's official website, 311's spring tour will hit theaters with capacities raging from about 2,000 to 8,000, and most stops will be in cities that weren't on the band's 1999 club tour, which covered well over 60 cities at the end of 1999. Tickets are on sale in most markets.

Jimmie's Chicken Shack [ tickets ] will be the opening act for the spring tour, and Incubus [ tickets ] will be on the bill for the tour's Feb. 28 stop in Winston Salem, N.C.

"Soundsystem" (Capricorn), 311's sixth-major label album, peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 chart shortly after its release last October. It has since fallen to No. 194 on the chart, but the new single "Flowing"--for which the band shot a video earlier this month--is beginning to garner significant radio airplay.