The Rolling Stones are heading back out on the road for a world tour in support of their first new studio album in eight years.

The aging rockers officially announced their tour plans at the famous Julliard Music School Plaza on Manhattan's west side Tuesday afternoon.

Singer Mick Jagger, drummer Charlie Watts and guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood helped spell out the group's plans.

Squashing rumours this is the band's final concert tour, 61-year-old Jagger said the Stones don't want to get caught in that trap.

"We never said this is going to be our last tour," he said to cheers. "We take each tour as it comes."

The tour kicks off at Fenway Park in Boston on August 21, in support of a new studio album the band has been working on with producer Don Was.

Before it wraps up, the world trek will make 35 confirmed North American stops, including four across Canada.

Jagger will make his trademark swagger in front of an Ottawa audience on August 28. The band plays two Canadian dates in September: in Moncton, New Brunswick on the 3rd and Toronto on the 26th. The fourth Canadian show is set for October 28 in Calgary.

Once the North American leg is over, the Stones will take the show to Mexico, South America, the Far East and Europe.

The Stones may still rock, but they do show signs of becoming creatures of habit.

The past two tour announcements were also made in New York City.

In 2002, they arrived at a Bronx Park via a blimp. Five years earlier, the Brooklyn Bridge was closed to accommodate the band's cruise in an 1955 Cadillac convertible.

Following another tradition, of sorts, the band also expects to rehearse its world tour in Toronto.

"I don't know when we get there, but sooner than you think," Jagger quipped.

The band has chosen Toronto to rehearse for previous world tours in 1994, 1997 and 2002.

Although the band has been thrilling audiences in concerts around the world, they haven't released a new studio album since Bridges to Babylon in 1997.

Since then, fans eager for new material from the band have had to settle for the few tracks included in the greatest hits compilation Forty Licks.

The band admits a new album is in the works, but when they were asked for a preview, the band joked that it hasn't even been named yet.