Guitarist Joe Perry has revealed via Twitter that AEROSMITH will launch a US tour in June. Tickets for the trek will go on sale in March. Complete details coming soon.

Perry spoke with Darryl Sterdan from the QMI Agency about the band's first studio album in seven years, and preparing to return to the road this summer.

“We’re in the middle of a bunch of stuff,” says the 60-year-old rocker from a Hollywood hotel. “I’m out here finishing up the Aerosmith record that we started last summer. Hopefully we’ll have it done in the next month or so. And we’re definitely touring this summer. We’re gonna put tickets on sale in February or March and we’re going on the road in June. Everybody’s lined up. We’re ready.”

About how the new album will sound Perry remarked: "It definitely has a feel like some of the early stuff. We’ve tried to bring that back. People are always asking for something that sounds like the old stuff, but you can’t rewrite 'Mama Kin' or 'Same Old Song and Dance'. All you can do is go in and start from the same place you started when you made those records. So we just went in with (producer) Jack Douglas and we all worked on the record. There’s a song or two that the band helped write, and Tom (Hamilton) wrote and Brad (Whitford) has a track on there. So from that point of view, it’s a lot more like an early Aerosmith record. We were all in the room when we were pulling these songs together and recording them. Every way that we used to make our records, that’s what we did to get this to where it is. Right down to what we’re doing now, which is going over the tracks and bringing them up to speed. Steven is finishing up the lyrics and we’re just going to put the finishing touches on it."

Read the entire interview here.

Joe Perry covered BOB DYLAN’s 'Man Of Peace' on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Monday, January 30th. The song is off the album Chimes Of Freedom, which will support Amnesty's life-saving human rights work. The album is dedicated to people worldwide who are unjustly imprisoned or threatened for the peaceful expression of their beliefs. You can support Amnesty International's life-saving work by ordering Chimes Of Freedom today here.