U2 [ tickets ] will open an 80-show world arena tour in Miami on March 24, Billboard Online reports. Allstar reports that the tour will visit Anaheim, Calif., on April 23. More details will be revealed soon in an official tour announcement.

Matchbox twenty will open a tour of U.S. arenas in late February, according to the band's official website, but specific dates and cities haven't been announced. Everclear and Lifehouse will open.

The people who created the Smoke-Out hip-hop festival will hold the Dragon Festival, a celebration of the Chinese New Year, on Feb. 3 in San Bernardino, Calif. Featured acts include Linkin Park [ tickets ], GZA and Kottonmouth Kings.

ZZ Top [ tickets ] will perform at one of President-elect Bush's inaugural bashes. According to the Associated Press, Bush, while governor of Texas, declared May 15, 1997, to be ZZ Top Day.

We here at liveDaily Briefly have always felt that if you get a day named after you, and it doesn't extend to every year, then it doesn't count. Harsh, we know, but that's how we feel.

Online music company Musicmaker.com will soon fold, Billboard reported.

Allstar quoted lyrics from Indigo Girls [ tickets ]' forthcoming song "Lucystoners":

"We were talking ticket slump/We try to put our finger on it/And quantify the undoing of each little step/its just a lack of press."

Also:

"Janny Wenner, Janny Wenner, Rolling Stone's most fearless leader/Gave the boys what they deserved/But with the girls he lost his nerve."

According to NME.com, Eminem will join his "protege rap group," Detroit's D12s, onstage in London following his Dec. 9 date.

Say this as fast as you can: "Eminem in NME, Eminem in NME, Eminem in NME."