April 1 [16:00 EST] -- Collective Soul will take its new material, from the album "Disciplined Breakdown," to the people with a string of U.S. tour dates later this month.
The band will wrap up a run of concerts in Australia on April 10, and will then return to the States to launch their tour on April 26 in Columbus, Ohio.
Showcasing the songs in front of a club full of people will be a considerable change form the environment in which the songs were hatched. Collective Soul frontman Ed Roland recently told MTV News how the band stumbled onto the perfect setting in which to pound out songs for the new album.
"It was a place when we got off tour, we literally had to move back home with our parents," Roland explained. "We were in a legal law suit with our ex-manager, and it kinda' just put the machine in halt. Everything just came to a halt. So what we did, we rented a cabin where we were going to store the equipment. During the nine months that we were going through the legal, um, hassles, we continued playing. It was therapy for us to sit around together as a band and perform."
You can see if all that quality time paid off for the band when they play the following dates:
- 4/26 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
- 4/27 - Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre
- 4/29 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
- 4/30 - Detroit, MI @ State Theatre
- 5/1 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Orbit Room
- 5/3 - Buffalo, NY @ Ogden Music Hall
- 5/4 - Rochester, NY @ Harro East
- 5/9 - Brookville, NY @ C.W. Post University
- 5/10 - Boston, MA @ Avalon
- 5/11 - Providence, RI @ Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
- 5/13 - Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre
- 5/16 - Sea Bright, NJ @ Tradewinds
- 5/17 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Metropol
- 6/21 - Fort Worth, TX @ Texas Motor Speedway
