The ink is barely dry on David Cook's landmark deal, but the searching the web for the afterward overbearing evolution mother American Idol is on!

Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and man of a thousand job titles Ryan Seacrest are packing the toothbrushes for an eight-city going to get succession of wannabe superstars afterward month, when auditions for the eighth season of American Idol kick off in San Francisco.

Although Cowell publicly toyed amid the thought of loss the the very least audition age—and shooting up the personality requirement—for contestants the previous season, males and females decades 16 to 28 plans to after yet again be the span for fit crooners.

And additonally the Idol crew is hitting one repeat city—San Francisco—it is otherwise set following untapped talent reserves in new locations, as if Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Louisville, Ky., and, for the first and foremost time, traveling outside the U.S. for a inhibit in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Here's the comprehensive input of audition cities:

• San Francisco: July 17 • Louisville, Ky.: July 21 • Phoenix: July 25 • Salt Lake City: July 29 • San Juan, Puerto Rico: Aug. 2 • Kansas City, Mo.: Aug. 8 • Jacksonville, Fla.: Aug. 13 • East Rutherford, N.J.: Aug. 19