Eric Clapton announces spring tour with The Wallflowers

Legendary singer-songwriter, guitarist and three-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Eric Clapton is hitting the road in spring 2013 on a tour that will end with the Crossroads Guitar Festival in New York. The Wallflowers will open the entire tour except the festival.

The tour will bring Clapton to the PNC Arena in Raleigh on Wednesday, April 3. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday,

Taylor Swift announces 2013 'Red' tour, three NC dates

Young pop songstress Taylor Swift's dominance as a pop/county powerhouse has shown so signs of slowing down. Her latest album Red was released last week and is projected to have sold about 1.1 million copies in the first week, an almost impossible number to reach in the modern music world.

Piggybacking on that success, Swift has announced a year-long tour in support of the album which includes

Dave Matthews Band announces tour, return to Raleigh

Former summer concert mainstays Dave Matthews Band took a bit of a break from performing in the Triangle, but the band will return this winter for a rare indoor concert.

Dave Matthews Band will play the PNC Arena on Wednesday, December 12. The Lumineers will open. Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, Oct. 19, at 10 a.m. A Warehouse presale will begin Thursday, Oct. 4, at 10 a.m. Ticket

PNC Arena name change goes live today

Raleigh's RBC Center takes on its third name in its 13 year history today as it becomes the PNC Arena. New signage went up on the building early this week, and rbccenter.com now redirects to a newly designed site at thepncarena.com. It appears that domain squatters got to the simpler pncarena.com before venue officials had the chance.

The sale of RBC Bank to Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial is