The Specials have begun announcing dates for the first leg of this year’s North American tour, confirming shows via their Twitter account in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco on either side of the band’s planned performances at the South By Southwest festival in March.

As Robert Smith first teased last summer, The Cure will return to South America for the first time in 17 years this April, mounting its first-ever large-scale tour of the continent, performing seven concerts in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile and Colombia — followed by a one-off show in Mexico City to end the trek.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark today unveiled plans to tour North America this spring and summer, hitting five western cities in April around the band’s two appearances at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, then returning in July for six more concerts in the east.

The reunited ‘Last Splash’-era lineup of The Breeders — Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson — this morning announced it will make its debut with a concert March 29 at The Bellhouse in Brooklyn, N.Y., prior to already announced dates later this spring in Europe.

Morrissey has postponed six more U.S. concerts on top of the three already canceled or due to be rescheduled after he was hospitalized in Royal Oak, Mich., and diagnosed a bleeding ulcer — not the suspected bladder infection first reported by one of his reps — according to reports by Billboard and Brooklyn Vegan.

With three U.S. tour dates already canceled or postponed due to unspecified “band illness,” a representative for Morrissey now tells Billboard.com that the ex-Smiths singer has been hospitalized at the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., “where he is undergoing tests for a suspected bladder infection.”

True to his cancellation-prone reputation, Morrissey this afternoon scrubbed at least three of his upcoming concerts over an unspecified “band illness,” canceling his show tonight in Flint, Mich., and postponing concerts in Minneapolis on Friday and in Chicago on Friday — shows that are part of a tour already rescheduled from last fall.