Lady Gaga American Extends North American Tour Through Early 2011

Lady Gaga is keeping the North American leg of her "Fame Monster" tour going through the first months of next year, the performer posted this morning on her MySpace blog. The announcement says in part:

"The 2011 North American Monster Ball Tour, produced globally by Live Nation, will begin on February 19th, 2011 at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, taking her spectacular show to top arenas and a host of new cities. Semi Precious Weapons have opened all dates for Lady Gaga’s 2010 tour and will join her again in 2011. Tickets go on sale beginning May 14, 2010 at LiveNation.com."

There's a presale starting tomorrow; the blog post says: "Citi® cardmembers will also have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, May 11th, at 10am local time through Citi's Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com." For regular public on-sale dates, check livenation.com/gaga for details. Here's a list of the dates so far (more may be added):

February 19 - Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall / On sale May 14
February 26 - Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center / On sale May 14

March 3 - Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre / On sale May 17

March 8 - Boston, MA TD Garden / On sale May 14

March 25 - Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand / On sale May 15

April 8 - Houston, TX Toyota Center / On sale May 14

April 9 - New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena / On sale May 15

April 12 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL Bank Atlantic Center / On sale May 17

April 13 - Miami, FL American Airlines Arena / On sale May 17

April 18 - Atlanta, GA Gwinnett Center / On sale May 14

Lady Gaga Tickets On Sale Soon for Summer 2010 Concerts

Lady Gaga's Monster Ball tour continues with sold-out concerts all across the U.S., and more dates have been added. Tickets for the shows below go on sale late in March, so mark the dates so you'll be able to get first crack at these in-demand tickets.

To see all Lady Gaga concerts now scheduled, and on-sale dates, visit www.ladygaga.com/events.

On sale Friday March 26:

July 2 - Boston, MA - TD Garden

July 14 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena

August 19 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden

August 21 - Tacoma, WA - Tacoma Dome

August 24 - Vancouver, BC - General Motors Place

On sale Saturday March 27:

July 4 - Atlantic City, NJ - Boardwalk Hall

July 20 - Oklahoma City, OK - Ford Center

September 14 - Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center

On sale Monday March 29:

July 28 - Denver, CO - Pepsi Center

August 3 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center

Get Tickets for New Lady Gaga NYC Shows; Video of Her at AMAs and in Pre-Gaga Days

Two more shows have been added to Lady Gaga's existing two nights at New York's Radio City Music Hall. She will now be performing at the famed Rockefeller Center venue on Jan. 20-21 and 23-24, 2010. Kid Cudi and Jason Derulo will be supporting Lady Gaga at all four gigs. You can buy Lady Gaga Radio City tickets here for all four shows; this is the official Radio City online box office. Tickets for all of the Radio City shows are on sale now.

And if you're wondering who Lady Gaga was before she was running around without pants and with flashing lights in public, well, check out the video below. It's from a 2005 show at at New York University talent show and features a young singer and pianist named Stefani Germanotta. I guess that name and the female singer-songwriter motif was just too common in the NYC area, so somehow she came up with the Lady Gaga persona. Obviously a smart marketing move.