Van Halen adds 18 more concert dates

LOS ANGELES, April 18 (UPI) -- Van Halen announced it has added 18 dates to its 2012 North American concert tour.

The new dates begin July 7 with an encore performance at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. Second shows have also been added in the Detroit and the New York/New Jersey area, as well as Philadelphia, Live Nation said Tuesday. Van Halen has confirmed a total of 61 stops throughout North America, thus far.

Ky-mani Marley is the opening act for all added concerts.

The rock band recently premiered the video for "She's the Woman," the second single from "A Different Kind of Truth," the band's first original studio album with singer David Lee Roth since the multi-platinum "1984."