A perpetual touring machine, this time Snider is supporting his upcoming album, Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables, which drops March 6 on Aimless Records.

New stops on Snider’s schedule include several newly listed shows in Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Texas and Tennessee with the tour wrapping up in Nashville, Tenn., at the famed Ryman Auditorium.

New destinations along the way during Snider’s journey to The Ryman include Sacramento, Calif., at Harlow’s Night Club April 14; two nights at Seattle’s Triple Door April 19-20; Salt Lake City at The State Room April 24; Dallas at Granada Theater May 2 and New Braunfels, Texas, at Gruene Hall May 4-5.

Snider also has a few dates in the Denver area, playing Fort Collins at Hodi’s Half Note April 25; Boulder at Boulder Theater April 26 and the Denver’ s L2 Arts and Culture Center April 27.

Some of the new dates are already on sale. Click here for more information.

Scheduled for April 19-22 at the Salt Lick Pavilion and Camp Ben McCullock outside Austin, Texas, the 25th annual Old Settler’s Music Festival will also feature performances by Doyle Lawson, Bob Schneider, Psychograss, James McMurtry, Steep Canyon Rangers, Sarah Jarosz, Gaelic Storm, Marshall Crenshaw, The Bottle Rockets and more.

With Old Settler’s you get four stages set in the great outdoors and the chance to experience four days of no rush/no hurry festival action. There will be artisans, children’s activities and more, all for you to experience while soaking up the event's blankets and lawn chairs atmosphere. This isn’t your gigantic rock-till-you-drop festival, and Old Settler’s fans like that just fine.

Tickets include four-day platinum packages that include camping and perks to single day passes. Visit OldSettlersMusicFest.org for more information.

Plans for the original Black Sabbath lineup include the band’s first album with Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Ward in 33 years, as well as a global tour scheduled to begin in Moscow May 18. But that was then.

Now it looks as if the album and tour will go forward as planned but without Ward.

From BlackSabbath.com:

“We were saddened to hear yesterday via Facebook that Bill declined publicly to participate in our current Black Sabbath plans...we have no choice but to continue recording without him although our door is always open... We are still in the UK with Tony. Writing and recording the new album and on a roll... See you at Download!!!

The Aerosmith frontman and “American Idol” judge endured plenty of jabs after his rendition of the anthem at the AFC Championship game last month, but Tyler says he doesn’t understand what all the fuss was about.

“I don’t know. As I said before, I put emphasis on, ‘In the land of the free’ and I went up,” Tyler explained. “Oddly enough I hit the note so I don’t know what they are talking about. I emphasized ‘free’ which was for freedom. It was well thought out prior to. I wasn’t messing with American tradition.”

Enduring negative criticism at that football game did not stop Tyler from enjoying pre-Super Bowl festivities with Carrie Underwood. The duo is in Indianapolis for CMT’s “Crossroads,” which brings acts from different genres together to perform. It’s not the first time the two have sung together: They performed a duet at the Academy of Country Music Awards last year.

“I just love to sing and I love her stuff. A good friend of mine writes songs with her. When I heard ‘Undo It,’ I said, ‘What is that?’ That is an Aerosmith song, right? I am going to finish recording that with you. He said, ‘No, I wrote that with Carrie, it is coming out in a week,’“ he said. “I met her and it was all over after that, once I looked into her eyes. She opened her mouth and sang and she is that good. I loved singing with her.”

The two rehearsed Thursday evening in North Greenfield, just outside of Indianapolis, ahead of their scheduled Saturday show (it will air the same night on the network). The former “Idol” champ says she enjoys working with the lively Tyler because he “makes everybody all warm and fuzzy.”

While Tyler, closely connected to Boston for years, made clear he was rooting for the New England Patriots in Sunday’s game against the New York Giants, Underwood demurred when asked to name her pick. In her house, she says hockey is the main focus, since husband Mike Fisher is a professional hockey player in Nashville.

“He is Canadian so I have had to switch his focus from so much hockey to a little football because we watch a lot of hockey,” she said. “I love watching him and I love watching the Predators.”

Vegas Loves Mötley Crüe

Mötley Crüe begins its Las Vegas residency at The Joint @ the Hard Rock Hotel / Casino tonight, playing 13 shows now through Feb. 19. To celebrate, Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman proclaimed today “Mötley Crüe Day” in Sin City.

Now, before you start entertaining images of Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee running rampant through the desert city on a day where nothing is denied to them, think again. It’s just a proclamation and not the keys to the city or a collective “king for a day” arrangement. But wouldn’t it be fun to turn the town over to Mötley Crüe for a day? The mind boggles as to what the boys might do if given total control over the city.

Meanwhile, the band’s residency has The Crüe playing four shows a week, including Super Bowl Sunday, Valentine’s Day and President’s Day. Visit Motley.com for more info.

Ziggy On The Air

Ziggy Marley has signed on to SiriusXM Radio with a new monthly show.

Appropriately titled "Ziggy Marley’s Legends Of Reggae,” the radio program features the son of reggae legend Bob Marley talking about, well, reggae legends. Debuting Feb. 5 on the eve of Bob Marley’s 1981 death, the first program features Ziggy talking with Jimmy Cliff.

Along with talking to and about reggae musicians, the program will feature plenty of music from the entire Marley family as well as Ziggy talking about music and culture.

“It is my privilege to use this medium to honor the legends of reggae and to use it as a vehicle to educate and enlighten listeners,” Marley said.

Hitting Rock Bottom

Believe it or not, there are notes that haven’t yet been sung, some too high and some too low.

The Decca music label has launched a search to find someone with the pipes to sing the latter, a low “E,” which resides in a very bassy world located almost three octaves below a piano’s middle “C.”

There’s a reason for all this low-end activity. Paul Mealor, who composed the Christmas hit “Wherever You Are” sung by The Military Wives, has written a piece called “De Profundis (Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord), which features the never-before-sung low “E,” reports Reuters.

“My setting of De Profundis calls for a rich and powerful voice; a voice that can not only touch the heart with its sincerity and truth, but also make every fabric of the human body resonate as it plunges into the very lowest parts of the vocal spectrum,” Mealor said.

As to how low a voice can go, “Guinness World Records” claims the lowest note produced by a singer is a low “F Sharp” sung by American Roger Menees two years ago.

Think your voice can go deep enough on the scale to hit low “C?” The label has a website where singers can upload their recordings. Click here for all the details.

Mike Doughty’s memoir – “The Book Of Drugs” – covers his career including all the nasty parts like addiction and what he refers to as his “doomed-from-the-start” time with Soul Coughing. Every show includes Doughty reading from the memoir as well as answering questions from the audience.

But “The Book Of Drugs” is only one aspect of his tour. He’s also supporting his most recent studio album, Yes and Also Yes, as well as his new two-disc live album, The Question Jar Show.

New dates include Evanston, Ill., at Space March 22; Minneapolis at the Theatre At The Woman’s Club March 24; Milwaukee’s Shank Hall March 25; Ames, Iowa, at the Maintenance Shop March 28; Kansas City at Knuckleheads March 31; Seattle’s Triple Door April 7; San Francisco at the Swedish American Hall April 10 and San Diego’s Anthology April 13.

Many shows are on sale now. Visit MikeDoughty.com for more information.