James Murphy has planned a massive going away party for his renowned indie dance rock band LCD Soundsystem. Murphy's genre-defying group will take their final bow this coming April in New York City. With historic Madison Square Garden serving as the venue for LCD?s swan song, some 20,000 fans will get to see the band's final show . The box office not surprisingly sold out of LCD Soundsystem farewell show tickets in under an hour. In recent interviews, Murphy has hinted that LCD will dig deep into their songbook for the show at MSG. The New York-based music project released their third album, This Is Happening, last year to a sea of glowing reviews. 

Getting his start in New York as a studio engineer and DJ, James Murphy became a music magazine darling after releasing a pack of hypnotic dance rock singles in early 2000's. Murphy's gift for melding sardonic lyrics with infectious dance floor-ready beats propelled him from small NYC clubs to massive arenas and festival stages. Although Murphy will likely carry on making music in some form in the future, fans will never get to see LCD Soundsystem on stage together ever again. LCD's last hurrah in New York will certainly be bittersweet for many, but those who do make inside MSG will be in for one amazing concert. 

On the heels last year’s successful co-headlining tour, George Strait and Reba McEntire have already made plans to team up once again in the new year. “The King of Country” has announced that he will head out on the road this January for a tour of the United States. Joining Strait on the road will once again be the one and only Reba McEntire. The red-headed country music diva just released her amazing 26th studio album, All the Women I Am. Reba's enthusiastic on-stage personality seems to perfectly compliment Strait's cool, traditional approach to performing. No one croons a barroom ballad like Strait and no one gets a party started like Reba. 

Country music fans buying George Strait and Reba McEntire tickets will also have the pleasure of seeing Lee Ann Womack perform. The Grammy Award-winning singer is famous for scoring radio hits like “I Hope You Dance” and “You’ve Got to Talk to Me”. Fans may be lucky enough to even see Reba and Lee Ann sing a duet or two. The pair of country stars often partnered on Reba’s smash hit “Does He Love You” throughout last year’s tour. Concert goers with a taste for country simply won’t find a better bang for their buck next year then the George Strait-Reba McEntire tour.

When a computer repairman taught a ten-year-old Taylor Swift three chords on the guitar, little did he know he was launching the career of one country music’s biggest future stars. At just 20-years-old, Taylor Swift has risen to the very top of the music industry. Few performers in any genre of popular music enjoy a level of  fanfare equal to the “Love Story” singer. Not only a commercial success, Swift also has earned respecting for penning the majority of all her songs. The guitar-slinging Cinderella’s songwriting prowess was honored earlier this month, when she took home the BMI Country Songwriter of the Year Award.

You don’t need a crystal ball to predict that Swift will be seling a lot of Taylor Swift tickets in the coming year. In support of her already platinum studio album Speak Now, Taylor’s 2011 World Tour is destined to be a worldwide box office smash. Taylor and her band has booked 87 shows for next year from Nashville to Hong Kong. Swift’s global trek will begin aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, the Allure of the Seas. Docked in the port of Cozumel, Mexico, Taylor will put on a memorable concert for her fellow shipmates this February. With tour legs scheduled for Europe, Asia, and North America, Taylor Swift will be one busy country music star in 2011!

Internationally renowned recording artist Sade announced this week that she would be setting out on her first world tour in over a decade. This year, the Grammy Award-winning vocalist released Solider of Love, her first album of new material in nine years. Soldier of Love reached #1 on the Billboard 200, selling 502,000 copies in its first week in stores. Sade -with long-time band mates Andrew Hale, Stuart Matthewman, and Paul Spencer Denman - will tour the United States next summer from June to August.

Sade tour tickets have already gone on sale for shows in multiple US cities, including Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. The famously reclusive pop star proved she still has what it takes to wow an audience while appearing on a number American television programs. The English R&B singer performed recently on Dancing With the Stars, Late Show with David Letterman, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. European-based Sade fans will also have an opportunity to see her in concert with eighteen 2011 shows scheduled in Europe.

The music industry simply cannot discount the touring force that is Nickelback. Having played more than 120 concerts around the world and selling more than a million tickets, the Dark Horse World Tour will likely come to an end in high fashion on October 30th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nickelback also currently has two very popular hard rock bands touring with them right now in Buckcherry and Three Days Grace. Rock fans are jumping at the chance at seeing three of the biggest North American rock bands for the price of one. The Dark Horse Tour stops off tonight at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA tonight before playing Saturday night in Hershey, PA.

The Canadian rockers are currently on the road in the US supporting their most recent release Dark Horse. The Mutt Lange-produced record is one of the best albums the band has ever released in their 15-year-career. Dark Horse singles “Gotta Be Somebody”, “If Today Was Your Last Day”, and “Burn it to the Ground” have all found frequent radio play on Alternative Rock stations. The 2010 Nickelback tour itself has lived up to their fan’s high expectations with plenty of pyrotechnics, mega-screens, and scintillating guitar solos. There simply won't be a bigger rock show on the road in the US this fall than The Dark Horse Tour.

2011 CMA Music Festival tickets are now available for next summer’s four day country music festival in Nashville. The biggest names in country music will be on display June 9-12^th at LP Field. The CMA Music Festival this past June included performances by Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Rascal Flatts, Lady Antebellum, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, the Zac Brown Band and more!

The CMA Music Festival enables fans to see all their favorite country stars in one place. Fans also have opportunities to meet and get autographs from the performers themselves. Hundreds of thousands of country music lovers from all over the country come to Nashville every year to this unique music event. Expect the show of a lifetime if you make it next year, because the CMA Music Festival seems to just get bigger and bigger every year.

The Damon Albarn-led project, Gorillaz, has scheduled a US leg of their world tour for the fall. On the strength of their most recent release, Plastic Beach, Gorillaz will arrive in North America on October 3rd for a show in Montreal, Quebec. The group’s massive fan base in the US and Canada are doing everything they can to get their hands on Gorillaz tickets for the "Escape to Plastic Beach Tour". Albarn has dialled back the band’s cartoon image in recent live performances, giving audiences a more intimate look at the musicians themselves.

Plastic Beach is one of the best reviewed albums of the year thanks to songs like “Stylo”, “Welcome to the Plastic Beach”, and “On Melancholy Hill” resonating with both fans and rock critics. The band’s third album topped charts around the world – peaking at #2 in both the US and UK. Many American music fans are anxious to see Gorillaz perform tracks from Plastic Beach, as well as, Demon Days and Tomorrow Comes Today. Gorillaz caps their US tour on November 2nd in Seattle.

Band members Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., and Adam Clayton have officially released their rescheduled U2 tour dates for the band’s U2 360 Tour next summer. After the band was forced to cancel their tour this summer due to Bono's emergency surgery on his back, U2 will return to America in 2011. Earlier this month, Bono announced that his back was healed and he could now sit, stand, and “move around a bit”.The 50-year-old lead singer told the press that he's used his time recovering writing lyrics and new songs that could eventually make it on to U2's next album.

Bono has less than a month to get fully up to speed, because U2 plays their next show in Turin, Italy on August 8th. U2 will continue on through the months of August and September making stops in Germany, Finland, Russia, Austria, Greece, Turkey, France, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal. U2 will take a winter break before beginning their North American leg of the world tour on May 21st in Denver, CO. American fans will certainly be anxious to see Bono on stage after the disappointment of this summer’s cancelations.

As fans are frantically search for Jay Z and Eminem concert tickets, the two hip hop superstars can fans a taste of what to expect from their two-city tour on the Late Show with Dave Letterman. On the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater, Jay Z and Eminem blazed through a three song set for small crowd of fans. Jay Z and Eminem will play Comerica Park in Detroit, MI on September 3rd before heading to Jay Z's beloved Bronx for a show at Yankee Stadium.

Naturally, Eminem will headline the Detroit concert, while Jay Z will be top bill for the New York City show. The hometown series of shows will likely be two of the biggest hip hop concerts in history. Eminem'ss highly anticipated album, Recovery, was released on June 18th on the strength of the single “Not Afraid”. Jay Z’s The Blueprint 3 was one of the most commercially and critically successful albums of his career. Fans in the Big Apple and Motor City will have a great opportunity to see two of rap's biggest stars on the same stage this year.

Bieber fans now have a greater chance of finding Justin Bieber tour tickets this year with news of the My World 2.0 tour being extended into the fall. Bieber Fever is rampaging across the United States as the 16-year-old pop star embarks on his first major tour. Since releasing My World 2.0 in March, Bieber’s sophomore release has sold 5 million units around the world. On the strength of hit singles “Baby” and “U Smile”, My World 2.0 will likely be one of the biggest sellers of 2010.

With the addition of the fall leg to the My World 2.0 Tour, Justin Bieber will in total play more 70 shows in the North America alone. The young singer has pledged that one dollar from every ticket sold will go to building 15 schools for needy children. Bieber's busy schedule includes shows at Madison Square Garden, Milwaukee Summerfest, and the Staples Center. The tour kicks off in Hartford on June 23rd and concludes five months later on December 23rd in Atlanta.