Bon Jovi will appear on Fox's American Idol on March 14th. The band, who'll release their latest album What About Now on March 12th, will perform the disc's lead single, "Because We Can." Bon Jovi's performance coincides with Idol's "Live Results Show" in which the public votes for which finalist stays in the competition and who gets cut loose.

Keyboardist David Bryan was asked how the band jeeps up the energy night after night after 30 years together: "How do we keep it up? It's cause that's what we do, we're musicians and we love to play and make music. And, y'know, with every album, we get better and with every tour we get better and it's fun. And we just keep going. Y'know, I guess now, really, the Rolling Stones is the gauge, so I guess we got till 70-somethin', so we got another couple of years there and keep going on."

• Bon Jovi North American tour dates (subject to change):
  February 21 - Pittsburgh, PA - Consol Energy Center
  February 23 - University Park, PA - Bryce Jordan Center
  February 24 - Buffalo, NY - First Niagara Center
  February 27 - Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
  March 1 - Tampa, FL - Tampa Bay Times Forum
  March 2 - Sunrise, FL - BB&T Center
  March 5 - Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Cable Arena
  March 6 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
  March 9 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
  March 10 - Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena
  March 13 - St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center
  March 14 - Louisville, KY - KFC Yum! Center
  March 16 - Oklahoma City, OK - Chesapeake Energy Arena
  March 17 - Lubbock, TX - United Spirit Arena
  April 2 - Calgary, AB - Scotiabank Saddledome
  April 3 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
  April 5 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre
  April 7 - Saint Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
  April 10 - Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center
  April 11 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
  April 13 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
  April 14 - Des Moines, IA - Wells Fargo Arena
  April 16 - Denver, CO Pepsi Center
  April 17 - Salt Lake City, UT - EnergySolutions Arena
  April 19 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
  April 20 - Las Vegas, NV - MGM Grand Garden Arena
  April 23 - Glendale, AZ - Jobing.com Arena
  April 25 - San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion At San Jose
  July 12 - Chicago, IL - Soldier Field
  July 18, 19 - Dearborn, MI - Ford Field
  July 24, 25 - East Rutherford, NJ - MetLife Stadium
  October 25 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena

DID YOU KNOW???

• Jon Bon Jovi collaborated with Brian Wilson on the closing track to the Beach Boys' latest album, That's Why God Made The Radio. Bon Jovi, who's worked previously with the album's coordinating producer and Wilson's co-writer Joe Thomas, helped come up with the poignant album closer, "Summer's Gone," which may go down in history as the final track on the last Beach Boys album. The reflective piece features a melancholy Wilson, looking back at his life, singing over the group's signature lush harmonies:

Summer's gone/It's finally sinking in/One day begins/Another ends/I live them all and back again

Summer's gone/I'm gonna sit and watch the waves/We laugh, we cry/We live then die/And dream about our yesterday

CHECK IT OUT: Bon Jovi's new video for "Because We Can":

David Bryan On Bon Jovi Continuing On