Morissette announces N American tour

Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette has announced plans for a North American concert tour to support her new album, "Havoc and Bright Lights." The CD is due out Aug. 28. Her Guardian Angel Tour 2012 is to kick off Aug. 25 in Montclair, N.J., and will showcase songs off her forthcoming album, including the current hit "Guardian," as well as classics from her previous releases, record label Collective Sounds said Monday. "The songs from the last 17 years are blending together like great friends. Thankfully, there is a timelessness in their content and passion, for me. The show covers the gamut of every chord choice and every emotion I have ever felt. I am spent afterwards, happily so. I am thrilled to be able to play and tour with my family, blending my personal and artistic fulfillment into one sweaty, feisty, expressed, communal traveling circus," Morissette said in a statement. "I look forward to connecting with everyone face to face, as well as through the many social networks of this exciting new climate."