As previously reported, THE CULT have announced the launch of The Cult - Love Live Tour, with confirmed dates in the US, Canada and Europe. The band will play its seminal, 1985 Love album from start to finish.

Featuring modern rock staples 'She Sells Sanctuary' and 'Rain', the album, singer Ian Astbury tells Wes Orshoski from Billboard.com, "came off the back end of punk rock, and was one of the first MTV generation records—1985, it was on point. The Cult got away from the post-modern thing a little bit, when we got sort of lost in production, and made records like Sonic Temple and Ceremony, but the Love album was made with 100 percent pure earnestness. It's a pure album and it's so much more in harmony with where I'm at right now. I feel more connected to that record than probably any other record the Cult made."

"[Playing the album live] gives some context to what the Cult are, in terms of what we do have a claim to—building this post-modern world. We're one of the principal architects to that world, in a way. For me, it's kind of like, ‘Hey, wait a minute, I don't want my legacy to be Sonic Temple. It's amazing how many people come up and say, ‘Hey dude, where's the cowboy hat and long hair?' I haven't looked like that in like 16 years," he said.

Read the entire Billboard interview with Astbury here.

The Cult's tour schedule is as follows:

July

4 - Street Festival - El Paso, Texas
10 - Ulrich City Center - Lockport, New York
11 - House of Blues - Atlantic City, New Jersey

August

19 - House Of Blues - San Diego, California
21 - Celebrity Theater - Phoenix, Arizona
22 - Nokia Theater - Los Angeles, California
23 - The Warfield Theater - San Francisco, California
25 - Roseland Ballroom - Portland, Oregon
26 - Moore Theater - Seattle, Washington
28 - AEG – REC Building - Abbotsford, British Columbia
29 - Flames Central - Calgary, Alberta
30 - River Creek Event Center - Edmonton, Alberta

September

1 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, Minnesota
2 - House of Blues - Chicago, Illinois
4 - House of Blues - Dallas, Texas
5 - Stubbs - Austin, Texas
6 - House of Blues - Houston, Texas
7 - Amos - Charlotte, North Carolina
9 - 9:30 Club - Washington DC
11 - Terminal 5 - New York, New York
12 - House of Blues - Boston, Massachusetts
13 - Massey Hall - Toronto, Ontario
25 - Lisbon Coliseum - Lisbon, Lisboa
26 - La Riviera - Madrid, Spain
27 - Tingalo 2 - Valencia
30 - Dom Sportova - Zagreb

October

2 - Le Bataclan - Paris, France
4 - DR Koncerthuset - Copenhagen, Sjælland
6 - The Academy - Leeds
7 - The Picture House - Edinburgh, Scotland
8 - Civic - Wolverhampton, Midlands
10 - Royal Albert Hall - London, England
11 - Heineken Music Hall - Amsterdam, Noord-Holland