Def Leppard, one of the world’s dominating powerhouses of rock, has announced a 13-stop Canadian tour in 2015. The tour will take in major venues across the country, kicking off in Penticton, BC on April 15th and wrapping in London, ON on May 5th.

Tickets for the Canadian dates will go on-sale beginning at 10 AM on  Friday, December 12th at LiveNation.com

With 100 million records sold worldwide and two prestigious Diamond Awards to their credit, Def Leppard - Joe Elliott (vocals), Vivian Campbell (guitar), Phil Collen (guitar), Rick "Sav" Savage (bass) and Rick Allen (drums) - continues to be one of the most important forces in rock music. The group’s spectacular live shows, filled with powerful melodic rock anthems, have become synonymous with their name. For the past thirty years the band’s concerts have become must-see events and have quickly made them an institution in the touring industry, as they continue to sell out arenas worldwide.

Canadian tour dates include:

April

15 - South Okanagan Event Centre - Penticton, BC
17 - Save On Foods Memorial Centre - Victoria, BC
18 - Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena - Vancouver, BC
20 - EnCana Events Centre - Dawson Creek, BC
22 - Scotiabank Saddledome - Calgary, AB
23 - Rexall Place - Edmonton, AB
25 - Enmax Centre - Lethbridge, AB
26 - Brandt Centre - Regina, SK
28 - SaskTel Centre - Saskatoon, SK
29 - MTS Centre - Winnipeg, MB

May

2 - Bell Centre - Montreal, QC*
4 - The Arena at TD Place - Ottawa, ON**
5 - Budweiser Gardens - London, ON

* On sale Saturday, December 13th at 12pm-noon.

** On sale Friday, December 12th at 12pm-noon.

Speaking with Belfast Telegraph's Andrew Johnston, Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott discusses the band's next studio album, which they've been working on since before this summer's North American tour with KISS.

Says Joe: "We're back on it now and hoping to get it finished by early spring. I was in the studio last night, actually, and I'll be in again tonight, if I don't wear my voice out. I've got four hours of Press this afternoon."

Read the full interview at Belfast Telegraph.

Joe Elliott recently spoke with Billboard.com about working on new material. An excerpt from the story is available below:

"We only set out to write three or four songs in February and we ended up with 12. I'm still trying to figure out how and why. I think one of the whys is we haven't really written since 2007, 2008, so we're backed up, which is great to have that huge backlog of new ideas sitting around. And I think psychologically the fact that we aren't signed to a label, there was no, 'Oh, they're gonna want a ballad. They're gonna want a hit single. They're gonna want this or that,' the usual thing I suppose every artist in the world goes through. We didn't have to think like that. This time we just wrote for ourselves, and all of a sudden we were just spewing out all this stuff. There was just a little more freedom to the way we've written these songs and the way we've approached recording them."

Go to this location for the complete story.

KISS, Alice Cooper, Def Leppard, Sammy Hagar, Paul Rodgers, Cheap Trick, Heart, The Who’s Roger Daltrey, ELO legend Jeff Lynne and many more have recorded McCartney songs exclusively for The Art Of McCartney, a long awaited and very special project celebrating one of the most universally acclaimed songwriters of all time, Sir Paul McCartney. An audio snippet of Def Leppard performing "Helen Wheels" is streaming below:

Go to this location for complete details on The Art Of McCartney.