Van Halen

Van Halen. "A Different Kind of Truth." Interscope. Let's face it, for many fans, Van Halen without founding singer David Lee Roth just isn't Van Halen. It's Van Hagar. Or even Van That-Guy-From-Extreme. Nearly 30 years after Roth and his ...  

Van Halen will be giving local fans a live and up-close taste of the rock band's new album. Van Halen will bring its 2012 North American tour to the Sovereign Center in Reading on March 26 at 7:30 p.m.  The band, made up of singer David Lee Roth, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen and bassist Wolfgang Van Halen, will be joined in Reading by Kool and the Gang. According to Entertainment Weekly, the Van Halen members were all...  

(Video Link) The 80s band Van Halen famously (or infamously) had a rider in its contract which required promoters to provide the band a large number of M&Ms in the dressing room. But brown M&Ms were forbidden. If the band found a single brown M&M, the promoter forfeited his earnings. Why? David Lee Roth explains [...]  

(Rock News Desk) Gary Cherone knew Van Halen weren't planning a reunion with David Lee Roth when the original lineup appeared together in 1996 – because Eddie Van Halen had already hired the Extreme singer. Anticipation exploded when Roth walked on with ...  

Van Halen hails from an era when glam rock and heavy metal fused on a regular basis, eventually forming the semi-serious moniker "hair metal." Van Halen was part, if not the leader, of a revolution of hard rock bands that had no qualms about ...  

Titled “A Different Kind of Truth,” the disc is astonishingly strong, considering the fact that singer David Lee Roth and siblings Eddie (guitar) and Alex Van Halen (drums) haven’t released a full-length studio album together in 28 years. Another ...  

Pop Eddie Van Halen is on fire, but where are the songs? There's a lot that's good, and good-natured, about A Different Kind Of Truth, the first album that the still-combustibly carefree-sounding rock quartet bearing the name of Van Halen (as well as his drummer brother Alex and bassist son Wolfgang) has recorded with David Lee Roth in 27 years.  

David Lee Roth says there is a "revised spirit" within Van Halen. The band's original frontman - who has a tempestuous relationship with guitarist Eddie Van Halen and originally left the band in 1985 - admitted there is still some "routine conflict" within the 'Jump' rockers, but there is also "a lot of laughter". He said: "It's a revised spirit...  

In the most explicit effort so far to convey a sense that Van Halen's David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen bear no ill feelings toward one another despite the long separation and the verbal tussles over the years, the three sat ...  

Van Halen as a band was lost in the wilderness. While Eddie battled his demons, it became a rock-music guessing game whether it would be Sammy Hagar or the clownish Roth who he'd eventually turn to front his band. In 2007, the band decided to ...  

RollingStone.comPhotos: Van Halen performs dress rehearsal for family and friends at the ForumDenver PostSinger David Lee Roth, musicians Eddie Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen and Alex Van Halen of Van Halen perform at their dress rehearsal for family and friends at the Forum on February 8, 2012 in Inglewood, California. Musician Eddie Van Halen of Van ...Van Halen Rocks the L.A. Forum for Thousands of 'Friends and Family'RollingStone.comall 125...  

There are a few arguments in life that’ll never reach closure: Coke vs. Pepsi, Chevy vs. Ford, Democrats vs. Republicans, and David Lee Roth vs. Sammy Hagar. “A Different Kind of Truth” is the first full album of new material Van Halen has released ...  

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "A Different Kind of Truth" is a pretty ponderous name for a not very ponderous album -- Van Halen's first in 28 years with David Lee Roth as frontman. If they'd been in as cheeky a mood titling it as they were in recording it ...  

To celebrate the release of Van Halen's new album, A DIFFERENT KIND OF TRUTH, we are giving fans the chance to shred like Eddie Van Halen on the band's new single, TATTOO."THERE ARE THREE WAYS TO SUBMIT YOUR COVER VIDEO:Click on the video at the top HERE and submit your cover as a video response or submit your Youtube link to the Van Halen Tumblror at the entry box at the bottom of the page HERE.The guitarist who comes closest to "shredding...  

On “A Different Kind of Truth,” the first studio album from Van Halen to feature original lead singer David Lee Roth since “1984,” the charismatic frontman sings about trying to land that “stone cold sister soccer mom” he’s chasing ...