Velvet Revolver and Alice In Chains will be on tour this summer in the US and Canada. Sparta will also be on tour with them as their opening act. Velvet Revolver‘s frontman, Scott Weiland had the following to say about touring with Alice In Chains, “They’re good friends of ours, and obviously they have amazing songs, people have been saying the shows were amazing, and they were drawing some pretty big crowds, so we figured it would be kind of a cool gig. It would be fun to watch them play every night and listen to those songs.”

Velvet Revolver also mentioned that the audience will be hearing a whole new Velvet Revolver, with them finishing up their upcoming album, Libertad. You should expect to hear a lot of new stuff.

Alice In Chains recently re-formed to for a tour last fall 2006. Since then this will be their second tour in a long time. No other details have been released on the status of Alice In Chains outside of this upcoming tour.

No tour dates or locations have been scheduled yet, but we should hopefully hear very soon. You can read more about the story here.

Check out the acoustic sessions featured on the Alternative Press myspace. Feature acoustics include Cute Is What We Aim For, Sparta, Copeland, and Chiodos.

Chiodos plays a lil snippet of Mr. Big’s To Be With You at the end of their acoustic session. Sounds amazing!

Click here to go to their myspace.