Today's edition features news and tour information about Bonnie Raitt [ tickets ], Steely Dan [ tickets ], Dilated Peoples [ tickets ], Leonard Cohen [ tickets ] and the Austin City Limits festival.

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Bonnie Raitt [ tickets ] returns to the road next month, with the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer showing a schedule that keeps her tour bus rolling through summer and beyond. The veteran singer/songwriter kicks off the run May 8 in Choctaw, MS, and dates are scattered into early October.

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Steely Dan [ tickets ] has added new dates to its impending summer trek, which finds the veteran jazz-rockers holding court in New York City and dropping in on a Canadian jazz fest. The group will also tour a handful of West Coast wineries during the outing, which kicks off June 8 in Hollywood, FL. The upcoming tour will mark the third straight year that the band--led by co-founders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker--has launched a major roadtrip after a career spent largely avoiding the business of touring altogether.

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Underground hip-hop group Dilated Peoples [ tickets ] will head up the first Fresh Rhymes and Videotape tour in June, an outing presented by independent record label Decon. Joining the Los Angeles rap crew during the trek will be 88-Keys, The Alchemist and Aceyalone on the trek. The 19-city outing kicks off June 2 in Seattle and will run throughout the month, concluding with a West Coast leg.

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Veteran singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen [ tickets ] will launch his first tour in 15 years next month with a round of dates in his Canadian homeland. The recently inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will kick off the run May 11 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, with multiple nights in many locations during the May and June outing. In addition to the North American shows, Cohen will hit European venues in June and July.

* * * Foo Fighters, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, Beck and David Byrne highlight this year's seventh edition of the multi-day Austin City Limits Festival [ tickets ] in Austin, TX. The three-day event--during whcih more than 125 acts will be spread across eight stages--will also feature The Raconteurs, John Fogerty, Manu Chao, The Mars Volta, Tegan and Sara, Iron & Wine, Neko Case, G. Love & Special Sauce, The Black Keys, Band of Horses, Silversun Pickups, Vampire Weekend and many others.