Pharrell Williams and N.E.R.D. are presently at work on their third album Seeing Sounds, the first in four years. To help promote the effort, the Hip Hop band is taking to the road, beginning this weekend, before joining with Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco and others on this year’s Glow In The Dark Tour.

To commemorate the tour, the group has made “Everybody Nose” as an MP3 available for free download [click here to get link…].

3/22/08 Richmond, VA The National Theater

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3/26/08 Knoxville, TN The Valarium

3/28/08 Jacksonville, FL Freebird Live

With Kanye West’s Glow in The Dark Tour:

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4/16/08 Seattle, WA KeyArena at Seattle Center

4/18/08 Sacramento, CA ARCO Arena

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4/19/08 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion At San Jose

4/20/08 San Diego, CA San Diego Sports Arena

4/21/08 Los Angeles, CA Nokia Theatre L.A. Live

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4/22/08 Los Angeles, CA Nokia Theatre L.A. Live

4/24/08 Tucson, AZ McKale Memorial Center

4/25/08 Las Vegas, NV Red Rock Casino Resort

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4/26/08 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion

4/27/08 Denver, CO Pepsi Center

4/29/08 Oklahoma City, OK Ford Center

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4/30/08 Austin, TX University Of Texas

5/1/08 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Centre

5/2/08 The Woodlands, TX The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

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5/4/08 Duluth, GA The Arena At Gwinnett Center

5/5/08 Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheatre @ State Fairgrds.

5/6/08 Miami, FL AmericanAirlines Arena

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5/8/08 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Bobcats Arena

5/9/08 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion

5/10/08 Bristow, VA Nissan Pavilion At Stone Ridge

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5/11/08 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach

5/13/08 New York, NY Madison Square Garden Arena

5/15/08 Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center For The Perf. Arts

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5/16/08 Hartford, CT New England Dodge Music Center

5/17/08 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center

5/18/08 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion At Montage Mountain

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5/20/08 Montreal, QC Bell Centre

5/21/08 Toronto, ON The Molson Amphitheatre

5/22/08 Auburn Hills, MI The Palace Of Auburn Hills

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5/23/08 Chicago, IL United Center

5/24/08 Chicago, IL United Center

5/26/08 Winnipeg MB MTS Centre

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5/27/08 Saskatoon SK Credit Union Centre

5/29/08 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place

5/30/08 Calgary, AB Pengrowth Saddledome

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6/2/08 Vancouver, BC General Motors Place

6/6/08 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion At San Jose

6/7/08 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center

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6/9/08 West Valley, UT The E Center

6/11/08 Minneapolis, MN Target Center

In preparation for their April 29th release Rising Down, The Roots have scheduled a tour that will be hitting the east coast and some Midwest states.

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Most of the venues being played feature universities and colleges, a move not normal by well-known artists. However, it seems as though The Roots have planned this well through the direction of their album. ?uestlove recently stated, “This is probably our most political album to date dealing with addiction, nihilism, hypocritical double standards in the prison system and overall life in Philadelphia. I’d say it’s more mature and intense than all of our efforts but not a ‘downer’ as most people expect us to do.

Seeing as how this intellect favors the college crowd, it looks like a smooth move by the Philly natives.

The first list of tour dates are confirmed, whereas the second list of dates was released days earlier but currently is unconfirmed.

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March

29 Millikin University Decatur, IL

30 Kool Haus Toronto, ON

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April

5 University of Texas Austin, TX

7 Indiana University Bloomington, IN

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9 Higher Ground Burlington, VT

11 Pickle Barrel Killington, VT

12 Northeastern University Boston, MA

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16 Purdue University West Lafayette, IN

17 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

18 Webster University St. Louis, MO

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20 Green Apple Festival Washington, DC

23 Duke University Durham, NC

24 The Music Farm Charleston, SC

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25 Amos Charlotte, NC

26 Tigerfest Towson University Towson, MD

May

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3 Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA

4 House of Blues New Orleans, LA

August

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8 All Points West Jersey City, NJ

2nd List

4/1 | San Francisco, CA 1800 Listening Event

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4/2 | Chicago, IL 1800 Listening Event

4/3 | Atlanta, GA 1800 Listening Event

4/4 | San Antonio, TX CIAA Final Four Show

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4/29 | New Haven, CT Roots Performance @ Yale U

5/2 | Memphis, TN Roots performing @ Beale St Music Festival

5/25 | Los Angeles, CA Roots perform at UCLA Jazz & Reggae Festival

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6/5 | Seattle, WA Marymoor Park/Paramount -6/5-1st,6/7,8-2nd

6/13 | Birmingham, AL Roots perform at City Stages Festival

6/14 | Phoenix, AZ Mesa Amp-6/14-2nd/Celebrity Theatre – 6/7-2nd, 6/8-9-1st

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6/22 | Rochester, NY Roots perform @ Rochester International Jazz Festival

7/4 | Milwaukee, WI Roots perform @ Summerfest 2008

7/19 | Commerce City, CO Roots perform @ Dick’s Sporting Goods Park with Dave Matthews Band and Tom Petty