The festival billing is now shaping up as follows:

Main Stage:

OZZY OSBOURNE
LAMB OF GOD
[to be announced]
LORDI

Second Stage – Non Rotating:

HATEBREED
[to be announced]
MONDO GENERATOR

Second Stage – Rotating:

NILE
ANKLA
CIRCUS DIABLO
THE SHOWDOWN
3 INCHES OF BLOOD
DAATH
[to be announced]
[to be announced]

The 24-city tour begins July 12 in Seattle. The dates are as follows:

Jul. 12 - White River Amphitheatre, Seattle, WA
Jul. 14 - Gorge, George, WA
Jul. 17 - Sleep Train Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA
Jul. 19 - Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
Jul. 21 - Hyundai Pavilion, Devore, CA
Jul. 24 - Cricket Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ
Jul. 26 - Journal Pavilion, Albuquerque, NM
Jul. 28 - Coors Amphitheatre, Denver, CO
Jul. 30 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Kansas City, MO
Aug. 02 - Smirnoff Music Center, Dallas, TX
Aug. 04 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, San Antonio, TX
Aug. 06 - UMB Bank Pavilion, St. Louis, MO
Aug. 08 - Germain Amphitheatre, Columbus, OH
Aug. 10 - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, IL
Aug. 12 - Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI
Aug. 14 - Verizon Wireless Music Theatre, Indianapolis, IN
Aug. 16 - PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
Aug. 18 - New England Dodge Music Theatre, Hartford, CT
Aug. 20 - Tweeter Center, Boston, MA
Aug. 22 - Tweeter Center, Philadelphia, PA
Aug. 24 - Post Gazette Pavilion, Pittsburgh, PA
Aug. 26 - DTE Energy Music Theatre, Detroit, MI
Aug. 28 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC
Aug. 30 - Sound Advice Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, FL

Source Ozzfest

According to SooNews, KISS is coming to the Sault Ste. Marie area and Kewadin Casinos in July.

Kewadin Casinos in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan made the announcement official today, one year after the band was supposed to play at the casino.

Last year Kewadin announced booking the band only having to cancel the engagement when the band decided to tour Japan instead.

1,875 $100 reserved and 8,125 $75 general admission tickets will be sold starting April 2.

The outdoor concert will be staged on July 20.

Purchases can be made via the Internet at www.kewadin.com and phone at 1-800-KEWADIN starting starting in April.

Source BBM

Pete Townshend is excited about the upcoming Police reunion -- but he doesn't think they should be grouped with the Who or older '60s acts. He recently said to New York's radio station WAXQ-FM that, "They're now calling the Police 'classic rock.'I don't think so. The Police are punk. They're a punk band. They're not classic rock. You know, you've got the (Rolling) Stones and the Who. Classic rock -- finished. It's all over after that... This is just music. It's not classic anything."

Townshend went on to talk about seeing the Police in the '80s at London's Wembley Stadium, and a past conversation he had with Paul Simon, in which Simon sang Sting's praises and called him his favorite modern singer-songwriter.

The latest excerpts from Townshend's upcoming autobiography due out next year, titled Pete Townshend: Who He?, are now posted on the official petetownshend-whohe.blogspot.com.

Source IceBergRadio