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LiveDaily News Break, May 13: Stevie Wonder, NOFX, "Weird Al" Yankovic and more

Today's edition features news and tour information about Stevie Wonder , NOFX , ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, and Extreme . We'll also list off some of this week’s new album releases.

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Stevie Wonder will hit the tour trail this summer with more than a dozen North American shows booked from coast to coast. The Motown icon’s outing gets underway June 18 in Wantagh, NY, and continues around the eastern US through the end of the month. In July, he'll head West for shows in Colorado, Nevada, California, Washington and British Columbia.

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Skate-punk icons NOFX, currently finishing up a tour leg through the Pacific Northwest, have mapped out an East Coast headlining run for later this year. The veteran punk outfit heads across the Atlantic for a brief European tour after completing the current trek, and, following the overseas dates, the group will kick off a nine-city fall outing Oct. 13 in Providence, RI.

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"Weird Al" Yankovic has added more shows to his North American summer tour ahead of next month's launch. The outing, which now spans 45 dates across the US and Canada, is scheduled to kick off June 27 in Henderson, NV, and make its way from the West Coast to the East Coast and back through late August.

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Boston rockers Extreme continue along the comeback trail with a headlining tour in support of the band's first new studio album in 13 years. The group will warm up for the roadtrip with a July 11 co-headlining performance at the Rocklahoma Festival in Pryor, OK, before launching the 21-city outing July 29 in Poughkeepsie, NY.


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New albums hitting store shelves today include Death Cab for Cutie ’s “Narrow Stairs,” Duffy ’s “Rockferry,” Jason Mraz ’s “We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things,” Frank Sinatra’s “Nothing But the Best,” and Old 97’s “Blame It On Gravity.”