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March 4, 2010

Alice in Chains
to perform in Portland

By Ray Routhier rrouthier@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer

PORTLAND — Alternative rockers Alice in Chains have scheduled an April 15 show at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland.

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The band Alice in Chains, from left, Mike Inez, Sean Kinney, Jerry Cantrell and William DuVall.

Virgin/EMI Records photo, via AP

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the civic center box office, online at www.theciviccenter.com, or by calling 775-3458. The tickets are $45, general admission.

The band, formed in Seattle in the late 1980s, rose to national prominence in the early 1990s along with other Seattle "grunge" bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden, and has gone on to sell more than 17 million albums. The band has had two best-selling albums on the Billboard rock charts –  "Jar of Flies" and "Alice in Chains" – and seven Grammy Award nominations.

The band is touring in support of its new album, "Black Gives Way to Blue," the group's first new studio album in more than a decade. The new album and the tour features the band's new lead singer, William DuVall, who replaces Layne Staley. Staley died in 2002. The album's title track is a tribute to Staley, featuring Elton John on piano. Released last year, "Black Gives Way to Blue" peaked at No. 5 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart and at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Hard Rock Albums chart.

On this tour, the band is also performing in Boston, at the Orpheum Theatre on March 14.

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