E-Mail This Article to a Friend Sammy Hagar discovers second way to rock Van Halen have been re-Hagarized, plus a new film from John Waters and more

When it’s love

It’s official: Van Halen have been re-Hagarized. As has been rumored over the past month, Sammy will join the boys for a summer tour as well as for at least one new song, "It’s About Time," that’ll grace a greatest-hits album due in June on Warner Bros. There’s no word on what’ll happen to the tunes the band are reported to have recorded with David Lee Roth before that prime-era VH reunion imploded. What’s certain is that Sammy Hagar will be back in front of Eddie and Alex Van Halen and Michael Anthony for the first time in almost a decade — and he’ll be singing at least a few of the band’s Roth-era hits ("Panama" and "Jump" were cited). The tour kicks off June 11, it hits the Worcester Centrum on June 19, and tickets are expected to go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m.; call (617) 931-2000.

On the Waters front

Expectations are building for the next John Waters film, A Dirty Shame, which has everything you expect from a John Waters movie: tastelessness, political incorrectness, sex, Baltimore, and weird casting choices. Tracy Ullman plays a convenience-store owner who suffers a head injury and experiences uncontrollable sexual urges; head jackass Johnny Knoxville and Chris Isaak are somehow involved. There’s no release date as yet, but Waters will be in town May 1 to perform his stump speech/stand-up routine/one-man show "John Waters: King of Midnight Movies" at the Coolidge Corner, 290 Harvard Street in Brookline. Start time is — when else? — midnight. He’ll also talk about A Dirty Shame and field questions. Tickets are $28.50; call (866) 468-7619.

One mo’ time

Luciano, Plácido, and José weren’t bad, and bad — meaning good — is what Ramone Diggs, Kenneth Gayle, and Marvin Scott, collectively known as Three Mo’ Tenors, have got over their Euro predecessors in the pop-opera game. The Mo’ Tenors have perfected a two-act, "theatrically designed" evening that puts an African-American spin on the Broadway-and-beyond repertoire. Act one begins with Rigoletto and ends with "Minnie the Moocher," with stops along the way for a selection from Possessed: The Dracula Musical. (No sign, however, of the theme from Blacula.) Act two runs from spirituals up through Hoagy Carmichael and Gamble & Huff. The show reaches Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, on April 16 at 8 p.m., and tickets are $45 to $65; call (617) 266-1200.

High times

The Supersuckers are friends with Satan and Willie Nelson, too, and though they’ve long been the world’s most sacrilicious punk-rock band, they’ve always kept their cowboy hat in the ring. Reprising a concept they honed in support of their infamous country albums, 1997’s Must’ve Been High and 2002’s Must’ve Been Live (both Sub Pop), they’re hitting the road this spring on a tour that’ll see them playing two sets a night — one for their Dwarves-meets-AC/DC rock stuff, another for their C&W hangover. Lead ’Sucker Eddie Spaghetti just put out a solo disc, The Sauce, that intersperses some of his originals with classics by Kris Kristofferson, Steve Earle, and Waylon Jennings; and there’s a new live EP of Supersuckers country material coming this fall. They’ll hit the Middle East, 480 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square, May 17; call (617) 864-EAST.