Van Halen Announce 2012 Tour

Van Halen will return to the stage and tour in 2012. Taking to their social media accounts, the band released a trailer of new rehearsal footage set to their 1984 cuts "Jump" and "Panama" that announced an upcoming tour of what is sure to be a night David Lee Roth-era rock classics.

No dates have been announced yet, but the band has promised an album is forthcoming with original frontman David Lee Roth since their 2007 road trek. There hasn't been new music released from Roth and Van Halen in over 15 years. Their last recorded collaboration was on two tracks for the band's 1996 "Best Of" collection CD.