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By Beatrice Davis

The Rockstar Energy Mayhem tour, with Slipknot and Disturbed topping the bill will play 30 Live Nation amphitheaters in North America during July and August 2008.

Barbecue sauce KC Masterpiece and charcoal manufacturer Kingsford are sponsoring Tim McGraw's 2008 Live Your Voice tour, which begins May 9 in Tampa with special guests Jason Aldean and Halfway To Hazard.

THE POLICE – ONE LAST TIME

The Police will go on the road for the last time! The band will tour through North America before calling it quits for good, sources close to the tour tell Billboard.biz.

The Police -- Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland -- will play 30 dates in May through July in North America, with 15 announced European concerts squeezed between the America Tour in June.

Elvis Costello & the Imposters are confirmed to open the entire run of North American dates, with the last concert in the first week in August.

A source close to the band members states that these dates will be the last time the band will perform together as the Police – ever! It will be a very lucrative reunion, as the tour will likely end up in the $320 million estimated gross range, with attendance in North America of about three million. It would make it one of the top five highest-grossing tours of all times in the music history.

The Police reunion tour is promoted and organized by Arthur Fogel, chairman of TNA International, the global touring arm of Live Nation, and produced by RZO Productions.