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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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