Papa Roach News

(5/24/02, 1 p.m. ET) -- Papa Roach hits the road Saturday (May 25) for a series of dates that will preview songs from the band's upcoming album, lovehatetragedy, which arrives June 18 from DreamWorks Records.

The Northern California band has 14 shows on the itinerary through late June, beginning Saturday at the Float Rite Park Amphitheatre in Somerset, Wisconsin. Most of the shows currently scheduled are part of local radio-sponsored festivals.

What fans will likely learn upon hearing the group's new material is that Papa Roach is moving beyond the rap-metal for which it is best known on songs such as "Last Resort." Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix (formerly Coby Dick) tells LAUNCH, "Rap-metal just kinda puts like a time limit on your band, you know? If you just go, "OK, we're a rap-metal band,' then that's the time limit for your band, you know? Even since we started we just, like, kinda wanted to know ourselves as a, like a rock band. On this record we kind of proved that rock side of our band more, and, like, I think that will give us a little more longevity with the band, just coming down to not writing the same record twice."

Papa Roach follows up these shows with a spot on the Anger Management tour with Eminem, Ludacris, Xzibit, and the X-Ecutioners. That tour kicks off July 18 at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York.

Papa Roach tour dates (subject to change):

May 25 - Somerset, WI - Float Rite Park Amphitheatre (radio show)

May 26 - Washington, D.C. - RFK Stadium (radio show)

May 28 - Toronto, ON - Opera House

May 29 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall

May 30 - Peoria, IL - Madison Theatre

June 1 - Dallas, TX - Smirnoff Music Centre (radio show)

June 2 - Denver, CO - Red Rock Amphitheatre (radio show)

June 3 - Kansas City, MO - Belmont Music Hall

June 7 - Camden, NJ - Tweeter Center (radio show)

June 8 - Wantagh, NY - Jones Beach (radio show)

June 9 - Foxboro, MA - CMGI Field (radio show)

June 14 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre (radio show)

June 22 - Quincy, WA - Gorge Amphitheatre (radio show)

June 23 - Portland, OR - Columbia Meadows

-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles

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