Kid Rock adds two more DTE shows, makes TV rounds

Matching his record run of 2013, Kid Rock will play eight shows at DTE Energy Music Theatre this August, promoter Live Nation announced this afternoon.

The Detroit star has added two more DTE dates -- Aug. 18 and Aug. 19 -- to the six that went on sale this morning.

Tickets for those hometown shows "blew out in minutes," according to a Live Nation release.

Seats for the Aug. 18-19 shows will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday and are part of the $20 First Kiss: Cheap Date tour he announced earlier this month. Foreigner will open.

The original batch of six DTE shows included an open 11-day window in Rock's tour schedule, and he told the Free Press it was there to accommodate the possibility of more performances.

Rock also played eight DTE shows in 2013, tying Bob Seger's 1977 record for the most shows in one summer at the Clarkston amphitheater.

Rock is the middle of a busy promotional stretch for the album "First Kiss," released today. He showed up on "The Tonight Show" Monday night to perform the song "First Kiss" wearing a reminder of home: a T-shirt from Detroit's American Coney Island.

Rock also dropped by NBC's "Today" show this morning to perform the song "Johnny Cash."

Video of both performances is here:

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