Nickelback Announce Summer Tour Dates

Nickelback Announce Summer Tour Dates

TICKETS GO ON SALE BEGINNING MARCH 13th

LOS ANGELES, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Multi-platinum rock powerhouse Nickelback have announced dates for their North American summer tour, in support of their latest album, Dark Horse, on the heels of their opening night sellout of Nashville's Sommet Center last week. The summer leg of the 2009 tour rolls through Live Nation outdoor amphitheaters beginning July 10 in Darien Lake, NY at the Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, with Hinder, Papa Roach and Saving Abel in support.

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Nickelback is currently on a 32 city tour, selling out arenas across the country. The Nashville Scene said of the kickoff show on February 25th, "...nobody puts on a better show than Nickelback does. You can believe that."

Nickelback tickets for the summer tour go on sale beginning March 13th. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning March 10th at 10am Local Time through Citi's Private Pass(R) Program. For complete presale details visit: www.citiprivatepass.com. Nickelback fanclub members will be able to purchase tickets starting on March 9th. Tickets and tour information are available at www.livenation.com, with additional dates to be announced soon.

The latest single from the band's 2008 platinum release Dark Horse, "If Today Was Your Last Day" will be impacting on March 24th at all formats. The brazen rocker "Something In Your Mouth" is currently the #1 rock song in the country.

Nickelback are a phenomenally successful touring band whose tours have grossed in excess of $100 million thus far and have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. Dark Horse is Nickelback's first release since the immensely popular All The Right Reasons, released in 2005.

The Newly Announced Summer Dates are as follows:

July 10 Darien Lake, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center*
July 11 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Pavilion*
July 14 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion
July 15 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
July 17 Hershey, PA Hershey Park Stadium & Star Pavilion*
July 18 Pittsburgh, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion
July 21 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
July 22 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center*
July 24 Boston, MA Comcast Center
July 25 Hartford, CT Meadows Music Theater
July 28 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach
Amphitheater*
July 29 Bristow, VA Nissan Pavilion
July 31 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
Aug 01 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at
Walnut Creek
Aug 12 Clarkson, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Aug 14 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
Aug 15 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center
Indianapolis
Aug 17 Birmingham, AL Verizon Wireless Music Center
Birmingham
Aug 19 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Aug 21 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Aug 22 Maryland Heights, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis
Aug 25 Englewood, CO Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
Aug 26 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
Aug 28 Ridgefield, WA Amphitheater at Clark County
Aug 29 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre
Aug 31 Marysville, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Sept 01 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View
Sept 03 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Sept 05 San Diego, CA Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
Sept 09 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion
* Support TBA.

These Nickelback Tour Dates are currently on sale:

Thu/Mar-05 Worcester, MA DCU Center
Fri/Mar-06 East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center
Sun/Mar-08 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Mon/Mar-09 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
Wed/Mar-11 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
Thu/Mar-12 Rosemont, IL Allstate Arena
Sat/Mar-14 Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center
Sun/Mar-15 Moline, IL iwireless Center
Tue/Mar-17 Omaha, NE Qwest Center
Wed/Mar-18 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena at the Iowa Events
Center
Wed/Apr-01 Edmonton, AL Rexall Centre
Thu/Apr-02 Calgary, AL Pengrowth Saddledome
Sat/Apr-04 Saskatoon, SK Credit Union Centre
Sun/Apr-05 Winnipeg, MT MTS Centre
Tue/Apr-07 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
Wed/Apr-08 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
Fri/Apr-10 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
Sat/Apr-11 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center
Mon/Apr-13 Bossier City, LA CenturyTel Ctr
Tue/Apr-14 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
Thu/Apr-16 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Fri/Apr-17 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
Sun/Apr-19 Little Rock, AR Alltel Arena
Wed/Apr-22 Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville Veterans Memorial
Thu/Apr-23 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheatre
Sat/Apr-25 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre
Sun/Apr-26 Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheatre

About Live Nation:

Live Nation's mission is to maximize the live concert experience. Our core business is producing, marketing and selling live concerts for artists via our global concert pipe. Live Nation is the largest producer of live concerts in the world, annually producing over 22,000 concerts for 1,600 artists in 33 countries. During 2008, the company sold over 50 million concert tickets and drove over 70 million unique visitors to LiveNation.com. Live Nation is transforming the concert business by expanding its concert platform into ticketing and building the industry's first artist-to-fan vertically integrated concert platform. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol LYV. For additional information about the company, please visit www.livenation.com/investors.

About Roadrunner Records:

Initially founded in the Netherlands in 1980, Roadrunner Records has earned its place as one of the most prominent international independent record labels. The Roadrunner catalog boasts early releases from such seminal artists as Type O Negative, Sepultura and King Diamond. More recently, the label has experienced unprecedented success with multi-platinum artists Nickelback and Slipknot, gold-certified Stone Sour and Killswitch Engage, as well as modern heavy hitters Theory of a Deadman, Dream Theater, and Megadeth. Though primarily known as a hard rock label, Roadrunner's roster also includes diverse acts such as The Dresden Dolls and newcomers Black Stone Cherry, Madina Lake, Airbourne and The Wombats. Still headquartered in the Netherlands, Roadrunner occupies offices in New York, now the A&R hub for the label, as well as the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, Japan and Australia. For more information about Roadrunner, visit: www.roadrunnerrecords.com

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CONTACT: Jessica Ricci, +1-212-274-7500, ricci@roadrunnerrecords.com,
for Nickelback; or Liz Morentin of Live Nation, +1-310-975-6860,
LizMorentin@LiveNation.com

Web Site: http://www.livenation.com/

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