Currently in Europe for two months of festivals and headlining dates, Bob Dylan [ tickets ] will return to the US in August for a mid-summer outing.The folk-rock icon will launch the trek with an Aug. 10 appearance at Pittsburgh's New American Music Union festival, which also counts The Raconteurs, The Black Keys, Gnarls Barkley, The Roots and Spoon among its featured talent.Dylan's first headlining date on the US run comes Aug. 13 in Brooklyn, NY. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will spend most of June and July canvassing Europe with his band; his overseas itinerary can be found at his website. All US dates are shown below.Dylan continues to support his recent career retrospective, "Dylan." Released last October on his longtime record label, Columbia, the collection is available in two versions: a three-disc, 51-track deluxe edition and an 18-song, single-disc set.The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's most recent studio release was 2006's "Modern Times," his first new album of original material since 2001's "Love and Theft." The album shot to No. 1 on The Billboard 200.More recently, Dylan released a selection in the "Artist's Choice" series on Starbucks' music label. The 16-track CD, which hit retail outlets in February, features cuts from artists hand-picked by Dylan, including Billie Holiday, Stanley Brothers and Junior Wells. Dylan also wrote liner notes for the set explaining the historical context of each selection.In a recent interview with the The Times of London, Dylan appeared to break with his lifelong refusal to endorse political candidates when he offered support for presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama."Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval," told the newspaper. "Poverty is demoralizing. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up, Barack Obama. He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to."
