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(EndPlay Staff Reports) - The Smoking Gun, which has been publishing backstage concert riders for about a decade, refers to it as the most famous rider of them all. Now David Lee Roth, back as the frontman of Van Halen, gives what he calls the ...  

The Mayans must be right. Armageddon is just around the corner. How else can one explain David Lee Roth and Edward Van Halen putting aside their creative differences long enough to record a studio album together without killing each other?  

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. For one thing, there’s Roth ...  

In the winter of 1978, the heads of teenage boys began exploding nationwide because of something called the “brown sound.” You can look it up. The guilty party was Eddie Van Halen, who happily confessed and then blew up some more. The weapon ...  

The reunited Van Halen — which is the 2007 line-up including Roth, drummer Alex Van Halen, guitarist Eddie Van Halen and his son Wolfgang Van Halen on bass — recently released the album A Different Kind of Truth, their first studio effort ...  

The David Lee Roth-led Van Halen has always had a lot of swing in their sound and it's back on this album on songs like "She's the Woman," the supercharged swing of "Honeybabysweetiedoll," and the "Ice Cream Man" throwback "Stay Frosty." There are also ...  

Putting years of acrimony behind them, original front man David Lee Roth was welcomed back by brothers Eddie and Alex Van Halen after a two-decade stretch that saw singers Sammy Hagar and Gary Cherone fronting the band. The resulting tour -- a ...  

A question comes to mind when talking to Robert “Kool” Bell about Kool & the Gang’s opening slot on the new Van Halen tour. Are ya nuts?! “I’ve heard that,” Bell says with a chuckle. Nevertheless, he doesn’t think it will be ...  

Time flies -- or does it drag? In January, on a crisp, sunny morning in Pasadena, Calif., David Lee Roth, 57, welcomed a visitor to his 20-room, Italianate mansion to talk about Van Halen past, present and future. Roth actually rejoined the band ...  

Turns out, what has become one of the most infamous tour rider requests in rock and roll history actually has a surprisingly logical explanation. During their 1982 world tour, Van Halen mandated M in their “munchies” section, but ...  

It seems hard to fathom that it has been 28 yrs since the last Van Halen studio album featuring David Lee Roth! But in retrospect, Alex Van Halen will be 60 yrs old next year (2013). Eddie and Dave are both 57 yrs old right now. Long gone are ...  

With David Lee Roth back in the fold at long last, and Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfgang replacing Michael Anthony to make it a real family affair, Van Halen's first release in 14 years recaptures the energy and good-time spirit of their glory days.  

Van Halen's famous (or infamous) 'no brown M' tour rider. For years, it was believed to be some sort of rock urban legend, that the world-famous band actually demanded only certain candies were allowed to be backstage at their concerts. As it turned out ...  

The latest incarnation of Van Halen is (from left) Wolfgang Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Wolfie's Uncle Alex and his father, Eddie. About the only things missing 28 years after "1984" are Roth's gratuitous Tarzanian war-whoops and 10 pounds of hair.  

We can hardly expect A Different Kind of Truth — the first Van Halen album since brothers Eddie and Alex reunited with frontman David Lee Roth, released 40 years after the band's formation and 28 years after its last great record.... From San Antonio Current.  

"I've heard that," Bell says with a chuckle. Nevertheless, he doesn't think it will be necessary to surround his band with chicken wire when the group plays its repertoire of R party songs in front of Van Halen's headbanging fans. "We're not ...  

Lots of musical acts have wacky riders written into their performing contracts. They want a specific kind of champagne, a certain brand of pizza, only one kind of potato chips, etc. But, the original odd ball demand came courtesy of Van Halen's wacky ...  

Van Halen fans will have reason to wake up early and party on Friday. Tickets for the band's March 26 concert with Kool and the Gang at the Sovereign Center in Reading will go on sale at 10 a.m., but the party will start long before then. The "Hot for Tickets" on-sale celebration will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the Sovereign Center's box office on Penn Street. "Since this is a huge show for the Sovereign Center, we wanted to do something...  

Van Halen embarks on 2012 Tour featuring the reunion of David Lee Roth. What many thought was impossible is now reality. They even kissed and made up! During their press conference Eddie Van Halen is seen kissing Diamond Dave on the cheek to make their ...  

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...  

Eddie Van Halen's guitar work is electric, naturally, but nothing soars quite like "Jump" and nothing is quite as catchy as "Why Can't This Be Love." The first track, "Tattoo," is also the album's first single. For me, the song is the perfect ...  

Adele's Grammy hype has helped the singer score another big week on the U.S. album chart - keeping reunited rockers Van Halen off the top. Van Halen's long-awaited comeback "A Different Kind of Tr...  

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's first album in 14 years debuted strong this week, selling 187,000 copies after garnering generally positive reviews. But A Different Kind Of Truth was no match for the same old truth of the Billboard albums chart: Adele's 21 cannot be killed. In fact, in the lead up to the Grammys, it only gained strength, nearly doubling its sales from the previous week with 237,000. 21 has now spent 20 weeks at No. 1, the longest run since The...  

(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 ...  

Veteran rockers Van Halen would have liked the truth of their chart results to be very different this week. "A Different Kind of Truth," the band's first studio album in 14 years, ...  

WINNER OF THE WEEK: Van Halen. This should be interesting. We've been noticing for the past year that prominent rock albums, from Nickelback to Coldplay to Cake, tend to leap onto the charts in their debut weeks, then quickly drop off. Van Halen's A ...  

In the 1980s, Van Halen famously banned all brown M from their dressing room. David Lee Roth, reunited with the band for a new album and tour, explains why.  

First! Quick, feign Taylor Swift's look of utter shock. Adele's 21 is the No. 1 album on Billboard's Top 200 with a holy-crap 237,000 more copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. There is almost nothing more to say about this other than the following: • Wow. • Adele's album has now spent 20 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1. • Which is the same number of weeks Whitney Houston's Bodyguard soundtrack spent there. • Next week will likely be the...  

In this week's slate of Rolling Stone reviews Rob Sheffield praises A Different Kind of Truth Van Halen's first album with David Lee Roth in nearly three decades "As for Diamond Dave the gods only made one of him because they couldn't take the competition" says Sheffield "Now this is...  

Each week they will talk about a hot new tune burning up the charts. In this week's installment, Schoof and Bentley weigh in on Van Halen's "Tattoo." The song is the band's first with original singer David Lee Roth since "1984." It is the first ...  

The newest Van Halen presale code is now ready to use! During this special pre-sale period you have got an opportunity to acquire show tickets before anyone else! Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to see Van Halen’s show in Reading, PA!! Here are all the Van Halen show details: Van Halen Sovereign Center Reading, PA Mon, Mar 26, 2012 07:30 PM Onsale to General Public This Presale Starts at: Fri, 02/17/12 10:00 AM EST LN/Venue/Facebook...  

Adele logs 20 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart this week, beating out a brand new effort from Van Halen with a little help from the Grammy Awards. “21” moved 237,000 copies, a gain of 95% over last week. The sales week ...  

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...  

(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 [...]  

As a skeptic even when Van Halen was in its hair-metal heyday more than three decades ago—spandex, sophomoric double entendres and hammer-on’s just never did much for me—it’s hard to share in the enthusiasm of critics and fans trumpeting ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

FIRE's case at Oakland University, which suspended a student who wrote about his attraction to his professors in his writing journal, has lit up the airwaves all over Metro Detroit. It even has started to hit music sites such as the Van Halen News Desk, since the student's essay was titled "Hot for Teacher," the name of a 1980s Van Halen song. Now MSNBC has posted about the case as well, picking up an article from ClickonDetroit.com. The...  

A reconciled Van Halen returns to the top 10 this week with new album "A Different Kind of Truth." Released in conjunction with the launch of a new tour, the Roth-fronted Van Halen album sold 187,000 copies. The group's last studio set,"Van ...  

Photographer Kevin Estrada has uploaded a number of professional photos of VAN HALEN's February 8 "dress rehearsal" show at the Forum in Los Angeles, which was attended by thousands of "family and friends" as a warm-up for the band's North American tour.  

"Beat It" spent three weeks at No. 1 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart in 1983. C is for contract rider, a backstage document that Van Halen made famous when the band requested bowls of M candy -- but with all the brown ones removed.  

To celebrate the release of Van Halen's new studio album, 'A Different Kind Of Truth', a brand new competition has been launched giving fans the chance to shred like Eddie Van Halen on the band's current new single 'Tattoo'.  

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Here's something odd: After all of these years of being Van Halen fans, this is the first time we can remember hearing Eddie Van Halen's voice. It sounds quite a bit different from how we imagine...  

Van Halen's back with "A Different Kind of Truth," and why not? Those who miss the halcyon days of guitar rock are likely curious about the new release from the legendary band that shares its name with its guitarist. And Eddie Van Halen is on ...  

Van Halen have just released a clip featuring David Lee Roth interviewing the Van Halen brothers, Eddie and Alex. They describe in detail the stories behind their musical upbringing in Holland and journey to Southern California. The clip can be seen here.Earlier in the week the band released A Different Kind of Truth, which is their first original studio album with singer David Lee Roth since the band's classic multi-platinum album 1984. The...  

A nine-minute video black-and-white video clip in which VAN HALEN lead singer David Lee Roth interviews the band's guitarist Eddie Van Halen and drummer Alex Van Halen can be seen below.  

...Well, not really, but bear with us because this video is great. One of our favorite rock 'n' roll rumors is that Van Halen banned all brown M in their tour rider (the contract stipulating a band's demands for playing a show). Below, David ...  

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.  

During the 1740s, a form of the crucible steel process was discovered that allowed the manufacture of a better quality of steel than had previously been possible. In about the same period, a technique was developed for fusing a thin sheet of silver onto a ...  

The truth is we did miss Diamond Dave, but his reunion with the famously combative band is a mixed affair that feels depressingly safe at a time when rock music could use a Red Bull blast. Perhaps the album’s biggest crime is its lack of fresh material.  

As Rompy Roo always says, “I get up, and nothing gets me down.” Alright, that was Van Halen, but you have to figure if a kangaroo gets down to any kind of music, it’s Halen. Kids can now get up with Rompy on the iBounce Trampoline from JumpSport.  

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...  

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 ...  

It's become fairly well-known that the band Van Halen has an aversion to doing press. So much so, it seems, that three of the four members -- David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen and his son Wolfgang Van Halen-- have taken to interviewing each other.  

Like the old gunfighter resisting the urge to pack it in, guitarist Eddie Van Halen views rock 'n' roll retirement as an end worth forestalling for another day. The master axe-slinger has shown during the past three decades that he's willing to ...  

Eddie’s rapid-fire guitar solos ... Cream Man” and tracks such as “You and Your Blues,” “As Is” and “Honeybabysweetiedoll” encompass everything that makes Van Halen great. Roth certainly isn’t the same singer he was back in 1972, but ...  

(hennemusic) Van Halen has released a new clip of frontman David Lee Roth interviewing the Van Halen brothers Eddie and Alex in the studio. The guys talk at length about their family roots, including how their father, Jan Van Halen, met their mother, Eugenia.  

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 ...  

THE last time David Lee Roth made an album with Van Halen it was 1984. Both the year and the album. They've adopted a revolving door approach to singers since then, but there's a certain chemistry when Diamond Dave and Eddie Van Halen get together in one room.  

(hennemusic) Van Halen have teamed up with sports brand ESPN for a "Tattoo" contest, with a helluva prize: an all-expenses-paid vacation to a Van Halen concert and a meet and greet with David Lee Roth. The promotion is tied in to "Tattoo," the first single ...  

David Lee Roth has held a variety of jobs: singer, actor, emergency medical technician. He can now add video journalist to his resume. In a new video just posted, Diamond Dave sits down to interview two musicians he already knows pretty well - none other ...  

THIS legendary rocker is back with Van Halen and barking mad about dogs, writes Cameron Adams. Well on the insurance form they're called "canine athletes". We train dogs for cattle and sheep herding. They're very different. Sheep are a lot like supermodels ...  

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 ...  

There are plenty of reasons to be wary of the new Van Halen album, A Different Kind Of Truth. But for the sake of time, let’s narrow them down to three: The lead single, “Tattoo,” was pretty bad. And after hearing the album, the song’s badness suggests that three-quarters of the band—the part actually named “Van Halen”—actively wanted to make David Lee Roth look foolish by putting it out as a single. It turns out that “Tattoo” is one of the...  

Legendary rockers Van Halen want you to think that they failed to recapture the magic of their youth on their first new David Lee Roth-fronted album in almost 30 years. That is the only logical explanation for the band's seemingly ill-advised decision to release the relatively underwhelming "Tattoo" as the first single from what otherwise is a mind-blowingly epic return to glory.More news: Van HalenAll the latest music and artist coverage from...  

It's the eve of the release of Van Halen's first album of new material with David Lee Roth behind the mic since the Reagan administration, and the band has unveiled its last batch of 90-second samples of tracks from the collection.More news: Van HalenAll the latest music and artist coverage from SoundSpike  

(hennemusic) Van Halen and brown M's will forever be linked in pop culture. Most people have heard that there's a connection between the two, without knowing the details. The story begins with Van Halen adding a clause to their tour contract that ...  

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 ...  

The music business, or whatever's left of it, sure isn't what it used to be, so if anyone's buying music at all, it's a miracle. 

 And this is what's proven the loyalty of Van Halen's fanbase, as their comeback album with David Lee Roth, A ...  

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. Consciously or instinctively, they understood that virtuoso mastery on instruments feels a whole lot less like work to listeners when you have a high-IQ stand-up comedian spouting lecherous asides during the bridges. And they also knew that eccentric noise goes down easier when it's got giant hooks and fun in the sun. They could...  

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 bandmates parted ways following the group's "1984" al ...  

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 bandmates parted ways following the group's "1984" album ...  

A new Van Halen record with original lead singer David Lee Roth on board arrives today after a 27-year wait. That’s not the only news. A Different Kind of Truth (which Roth and Van Halen have been trying to assemble since 2000) happens to be flat-out ...  

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 bandmates parted ways after the group’s “1984 ...  

With Van Halen's new album, A Different Kind of Truth, finally unleashed on the world February 7, and with big first week sales projections in an era when nobody's buying any music at all, the band is indeed finally back. 

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State College area fans of legendary rock band Van Halen will have to go elsewhere to hear hits like "Jump" and "Runnin' with the Devil" for the group's North American tour this year.  

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...  

February 11th, 2012. Suddenly….I just became hot for granny… Thumb up +3. norman einstein. February 11th, 2012. “…for an old bag she's not bad.” Well…no worse than David Lee Roth, anyway. http://tinyurl.com/7bpz75j ...  

Just a few days before possibly toppling Adele from the No. 1 album slot in the U.S., Van Halen played a secret show for its most dedicated fans Wednesday night (2/8) in Inglewood, CA.More news: Van HalenAll the latest music and artist coverage from SoundSpike  

David Lee Roth says there is a "revised spirit" within Van Halen, despite some "routine conflict" remaining within the 'Jump' rockers. David Lee Roth...  

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 ...  

I love Michigan beer, my beloved Detroit Tigers ... This weekend be treated to "An Evening with Anthony Bourdain (Travel Channel's "No Reservations") and Eric Ripert" (Bravo's "Top Chef"), who will present at 7 p.m. Sunday at DeVos Performance ...  

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 ...  

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 bandmates parted ways following the group's "1984" album ...  

According to the unofficial VAN HALEN web site Van Halen News Desk, A special called "The Whole Truth: The Howard Stern/Van Halen Special" — which is basically a five-hour uncensored history of VAN HALEN on "The Howard Stern Show"… the good, the bad and the ugly — will air tomorrow (Tuesday, February 7) to coincide with the release of the band's new album, "A Different Kind Of Truth".  

Robert "Kool" Bell, co-founder of the legendary New Jersey jazz, R, soul, and funk group KOOL & THE GANG, spoke to Billboard.com about the band's seemingly unlikely support slot on VAN HALEN's North American tour, which is scheduled to kick off on February 18 in Louisville, Kentucky.  

“A Different Kind of Truth,” the first album to feature original singer David Lee Roth in 27 years ... Inevitably, this renders “Truth” more a metal genre exercise than the rock-pop nexus of the band’s best. It presents a group ...  

For FishbowlLA, this was easily the most surprising take-away from Geoff Boucher‘s excellent weekend profile of the returning Van Halen frontman. That the colorful rock’n'roll and radio survivor currently resides in the vicinity of flower petal floats, stately Craftsman homes and the state’s oldest highway. Boucher in fact for this story paid a visit to David Lee Roth not long after this year’s Rose Parade: Earlier this month, on a crisp...  

(Interscope)Despite the multi-platinum gluttony of the Sammy Hagar era, true Van Halen devotees have never been in any doubt about who they want to front their favourite band. Some 28 years after Jump and Hot for Teacher, David Lee Roth has squeezed back into his old spandex pants, his lascivious yelping at last reunited with legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen's nimble-fingered pyrotechnics (see page 12). In truth, this would have to be a...  

May 19, Xcel Energy Center, 7th-Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, MN, $77.50-$147.50. As always, it's all about the music... Van Halen 'jumping' into St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center; David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen, Alex Van Halen (L-R)  

Reviews are mixed for the band's studio reunion with original singer David Lee Roth, their first for Interscope Records. A Different Kind Of Truth, the first new David Lee Roth-fronted Van Halen album in 28 years, debuted Tuesday, Feb. 7. The 13-track ...  

Here is the recap: (hennemusic) While chatting with Radio Metal, Sammy Hagar says he isn't impressed with what he heard so far of Van Halen's new studio album with original frontman David Lee Roth and offered some other harsh views of his former group.  

On Wednesday David Lee Roth Confirms New Van Halen Songs Are Old was a top story. Here is the recap: (Rock News Desk) Van Halen singer David Lee Roth has confirmed reports the band's new album consists of old material. A Different Kind of Truth, released ...  

With a little over a week to go before the release of Van Halen's first new album featuring original frontman David Lee Roth since the Reagan administration, the band is whetting the appetite of fans with another volley of song samples.More news: Van HalenAll the latest music and artist coverage from SoundSpike  

The Van Halen frontman discusses the band's new tour, new album (his first with the group in 28 years), Eddie Van Halen and almost everything else.The Van Halen frontman discusses the band's new tour, new album (his first with the group in 28 years), Eddie Van Halen and almost everything else.  

Unofficial VAN HALEN web site Van Halen News Desk has uploaded VAN HALEN lead singer David Lee Roth's handwritten lyrics and graphics for "Stay Frosty", one of the songs off the band's forthcoming album, "A Different Kind Of Truth".  

Like everyone else with two ears and a heart, we really wanted to like "Tattoo," the first single off of the first David Lee Roth-sung Van Halen album in nearly 30 years, A Different Kind Of Truth. But we didn't, and sadly the blame fell squarely on Diamond Dave, who's undeniable skills as a showman didn't compensate much for his flat, sorta tuneless vocal. (We also miss Michael Anthony, dammit!) Of course, Roth has never been a great singer...  

Eddie Van Halen has donated 75 of his guitars to charity The Jump rocker - whos band are poised to make a comeback with original singer David Lee Roth- has given the instruments to Los Angeles area schools through charity Mr Hollands Opus Found...  

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 bandmates parted ways following the group’s “1984” album ...  

Van Halen released their comeback album A Different Kind of Truth this week, featuring original singer David Lee Roth, and have an good chance at scoring their 6th No 1 album - provided they can squeeze past Adele. According to an article posted yesterday ...  

The buzz: If you were raised on ‘80s rock, it’s the biggest music news of 2012: the first Van Halen album in 28 years to feature the band’s colorful original lead singer, David Lee Roth. Unless your name is Sammy Hagar, your expectations ...  

Growing up with Van Halen wasn't always easy, but it was certainly no worse than a lot of dysfunctional families. Sure, the early years with David Lee Roth were great, fast times. Then came the divorce. Maybe the band jumped too quickly into ...  

The latest tease from rockers Van Halen is a 90-second clip of the track "Bullethead," which will appear on the band's new album, "A Different Kind of Truth." Meanwhile, ESPN.com is streaming six full tracks from the album.More news: Van HalenAll the latest music and artist coverage from SoundSpike  

The last word on Van Halen’s huge reunion album goes to Eddie himself. "A Different Kind of Truth,” the first album to feature original singer David Lee Roth in 27 years, ends with a magnificent cadenza from Eddie, a glory-seeking flame-out of smoke and energy.  

It was Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth's idea to book disco band Kool & The Gang as the rock group's support act on its upcoming North American tour after he saw them perform at the Glastonbury festival last year (11). Fans and the members of the Joanna ...  

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 bandmates parted ways following the group’s ...  

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 bandmates parted ways following the group's "1984" album ...  

While December and January tend to be traditionally slow months for new releases, the music industry seems to come out of its shell by February, and 2012 is no exception to that trend.More news: Paul McCartney, Van HalenAll the latest music and artist coverage from SoundSpike  

Roth actually rejoined the band "five summers and a million ... adult volunteer leaders for outstanding service to youth in Rock Island, Mercer and Henry Counties. 1987 -- 25 years ago: The Rock Island District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...  

Darryl Sterdan of the QMI Agency spoke to VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth ahead of the February 7 release of the band's much-anticipated new album, "A Different Kind Of Truth".  

Rocker Sammy Hagar has blasted his former Van Halen bandmates' comeback ... Replacing Hagar and longtime Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony in the group is original singer David Lee Roth and Van Halen's son Wolfgang.  

Van Halen is back, and despite lack luster reviews of the first single "Tattoo" from their new album called A Different Kind of Truth, they are sounding as good as they on 1984, Roth's last album with Van Halen. The album is FULL of Eddie Van Halen greatness.  

Drummer Alex Van Halen hasn't lost a beat, literally, and feet do not fail him when the double bass drums kick in on the good-kind-of-migraine-inducing "Bullethead." Among the singer's more memorable contributions, Roth adds an "Ice Cream Man ...  

It’s the unofficial Thirteenth Law of Rock and Roll: The band will always get back together. No matter how bitter the breakup, how unnecessary the reunion or how fraught the peace. Case in point: The first new David Lee Roth-fronted Van Halen album in 28 years, “A Different Kind of Truth,” which appears to have been assembled with the diplomatic skills of a team of UN negotiators and all the passion of a proctological exam. Read full article...  

A pair of new 90-second samples from Van Halen's upcoming album have surfaced in the last couple of days as the build-up to the Feb. 7 release of the band's new album continues.More news: Van HalenAll the latest music and artist coverage from SoundSpike  

Just a reminder, rock fans, that tickets for Van Halen at HP Pavilion and Oracle Arena go on sale Saturday (Jan. 28) at 10 a.m. through www.ticketmaster.com. These should be some of the hottest shows of the season, so I wouldn’t wait around – especially not if you’re looking to score primo tickets. The shows [...]  

For a long time in the Van Halen camp, things looked very shaky at best that they'd ever be able to hold it together and get an album finished, let alone out in the world. 

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Van Halen, with original lead singer David Lee Roth once again behind the microphone, provided a sneak peak into their reunion album and North American tour to a select group of industry insiders in Hollywood  

Van Halen has released a clip of the new song "Blood and Fire" via the band's YouTube page, giving fans a taste of a second song from the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers' upcoming album.More news: Van HalenAll the latest music and artist coverage from SoundSpike  

“Tattoo,” the opening track on Van Halen’s A Different Kind of Truth, is so flat-out terrible, it makes you wonder: Has David Lee Roth returned for his first Van Halen album in 28 years just to deliver awkward yelping and cringe-inducing ...  

Filed under: Exclusive, New Music Robert Yeager Van Halen celebrates the release of 'A Different Kind of Truth,' their 12th studio album, with a 90-second teaser of 'Beats Workin',' a new track from the long-awaited collection. It's the legendary act's first album with original frontman David Lee Roth in over 26 years and based on the clip, fans are sure to be pleased. Eddie Van Halen turns in another incendiary guitar...  

I’ve always been firmly entrenched in the David Lee Roth camp. DLR is that per­fect mix of crazy uncle, car­ni­val ring­leader and 15-year-old goof­ball, con­stantly sport­ing a “What, me worry?” grin. With Roth at the helm Van Halen comes ...  

According to the unofficial VAN HALEN web site Van Halen News Desk, those watching the CBS hit show "CSI" tomorrow night (Wednesday, January 25) will get to hear clips of two songs off VAN HALEN's forthcoming album, "A Different Kind Of Truth".  

Van Halen announced the dates for their newest tour in early January and the rock legends are now on top of TicketNews' Top Events rankings for the month, as compiled from January 1-31. The legendary rock crew and original frontman David Lee Roth performed ...  

With several sell-outs already on the schedule, Van Halen will roll out tickets for the remaining five shows this weekend.More news: Van HalenAll the latest music and artist coverage from SoundSpike  

We've earned this, right? When David Lee Roth and Van Halen went down their own separate mean streets in the Eighties, who paid the price? We did. Van Halen fans everywhere have suffered through the years, waiting for this reunion. We don't need ...  

The deluxe-edition version of VAN HALEN's much-anticipated new album, "A Different Kind Of Truth", will contain a bonus DVD featuring four brand new acoustic-performance videos titled "The Downtown Sessions" including the songs "Panama", "You And Your Blues", "You Really Got Me" and "Beautiful Girls".  

Anyone worried about the tensions inside Van Halen might have their fears eased by this -- a new interview with the three founders of the band. Not just any chat -- it's David Lee Roth interviewing Eddie and Alex Van Halen about their music, family and ...  

Everything about “Blood and Fire,” from its instantly memorable chorus to John Shanks’ spacious recording of Alex Van Halen’s drums, suggests that the band conjured the old magic from muscle memory. On those tracks and the later “Big ...  

(hennemusic) David Lee Roth has offered up an image of his handwritten lyrics to "Stay Frosty," one of the tracks on Van Halen's forthcoming new album, "A Different Kind Of Truth." The bluesy-acoustic romp starts out swampy before launching into full-tilt ...  

I'm certain all Van Halen die-hards have these dates memorized by now, but just in case, their first new album with David Lee Roth since 1984, A Different Kind of Truth, goes live on February 7. read more  

Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times spoke to VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth and producer John Shanks about the making of the the band's new album, "A Different Kind Of Truth", which will arrive on February 7 via Interscope.  

Actor Charlie Sheen attended a 15-song "dress rehearsal" concert Wednesday for Van Halen at the Los Angeles Forum -- and posted his joy, writing on WhoSay, "I've waited 25 years for last night. It was worth every second... Welcome back...  

Van Halen’s first new album with David Lee Roth on the mic in nearly 30 years arrives February 7 on Interscope, and CraveOnline is celebrating the excellent return to form for the band with a kickass Van Halen merch pack giveaway! As we pointed out in ...  

One of the singular sounds in all of rock music has been the scrape of David Lee Roth’s Vaudevillian voice bumping against Eddie Van Halen’s dive-bombing guitar. The interplay between Roth’s vocals and Van Halen’s guitar was the height ...  

That’s half the battle with this guy. Eddie and Alex Van Halen also sound revitalized, with vintage soloing from Eddie. The songwriting is where things get dicey. At its best, Van Halen wrote songs that are nearly uncategorizable — if ...  

Ultimate-Guitar.ComDavid Lee Roth: 'I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better'The GuardianThere's something to clarify before David Lee Roth gets down to business, talking about his life with and return to Van Halen, arguably the most important American hard rock band ever. Namely: why did I have to watch a video of him putting his sheepdog ...David Lee Roth on Van Halen, then and nowNewsdayDavid Lee Roth Confirms New Van Halen Songs...  

VAN HALEN “A Different Kind of Truth” (Interscope) 2 1/2 stars 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 front man sings about trying to ...  

"A Different Kind of Truth" is actually not bad; in fact, it's pretty good, all things considered. 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 front man sings about trying to land that "stone cold sister soccer mom" he's chasing in "Honeybabysweetiedoll." But hooking up is the least of the challenges facing Diamond Dave and his bandmates in...  

It's an old joke, but when David Lee Roth delivers the punch line, it sounds more like a mission statement: "How many lead singers does it take to put in a lightbulb? One. You hold the bulb and wait for the world to revolve around you.  

Rocker Sammy Hagar has blasted his former Van Halen band mates' comeback album, revealing it left him cold and unimpressed when he heard it. The band's former frontman was not asked to be part of...  

Wolfgang Van Halen kicked off "Runnin' With The Devil" with a ferocious thumping on his bass guitar perched on top of the drum riser next to his uncle Alex Van Halen. Everyone was cheering along with beers hoisted in the air or playing air guitar around me.  

Compact Discs: Released: Feb 7, 2012 Genre: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal Label: Interscope Number Of Tracks: 13 The first Van Halen album to be released in over 25 years to feature David Lee Roth on lead vocals, and also featuring for the first time Wolfgang Van Halen on bass guitar and backing vocals. This album is mostly a re-working of several Van Halen demos from the late 70's.  

Holy crap. If you were hoping to shell out nearly $1,000 to be within spitting distance of David Lee Roth, you're out of luck. "Ultimate VIP" packages ($895 big ones) to the June 3 Van Halen show at Oracle Arena have sold out. Which means you ...  

And, man, do we have a past ..." The history traces back to 1972, when the Van Halen brothers, guitarist Eddie and drummer Alex — a pair of classically trained teen musicians born in the Netherlands but raised in Pasadena — auditioned ...  

Originally published: February 3, 2012 2:12 PM Updated: February 3, 2012 2:16 PM By GLENN GAMBOA glenn.gamboa@newsday.com Eddie Van Halen is a guitar virtuoso. David Lee Roth is a master showman. On "A Different Kind of Truth" (Interscope), the ...  

Time flies — or does it drag? Earlier this month, on a crisp, sunny morning in Pasadena, Roth, now 57, welcomed a visitor to his 20 ... There’s a thin line between rage and great work. He really never enjoyed his fame or success, and that might be ...  

A new Van Halen record with original lead singer David Lee Roth on board arrives today after a 27-year wait. That's not the only news. A Different Kind of Truth (which Roth and Van Halen have been trying to assemble since 2000) happens to be ...  

(hennemusic) Van Halen released their new album, "A Different Kind Of Truth," on Tuesday. Van Halen have released their TV commercial for the album, which also plugs the band's 2012 tour – that kicks off February 18 in Louisville, Kentucky. The project ...  

We have the Van Halen pre-sale code! This is your best chance to order tickets for Van Halen before the general public. This could be your one opportunity ever to see Van Halen live in Orlando, FL!! Here are the Van Halen concert details: Van Halen Amway Center Orlando, FL Thu, Apr 12, 2012 07:30 PM Onsale to General Public The presale begins at: Sat, 02/11/12 10:00 AM EST Facebook / Venue / Live Nation / Sirius The presale begins at: Fri...  

Van Halen is streaming the entire new LP "A Different Kind of Truth" over at ESPN at this location. The album was released yesterday. The track listing for "A New Kind of Truth" is as follows: 1. Tattoo 2. Shes The Woman 3. You And Your Blues 4. China Town 5. Blood And Fire 6. Bullethead 7. As Is 8. Honeybabysweetiedoll 9. The Troubl... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com  

Van Halen is about one thing: revenge. Eddie brought in Sammy to get rid of Dave, flirted with Dave again to get rid of Sammy, brought in Gary Cherone to clear out the building, trained his own ...  

After nearly 3 ½ years of no activity and no communication from Van Halen, fans are enjoying what they came to accept might never be possible: a new album (A Different Kind Of Truth), a 49-date North American tour, and acknowledgement of the band's online ...  

We’ve already heard, and rendered judgement on, “Tattoo,” the first single from the forthcoming Van Halen/David Lee Roth fence-mending effort A Different Kind Of Truth. And now Van Halen have posted a 90-second preview for the portentously titled “Blood And Fire,” another song from the album. Sammy Hagar, who never tells lies, has already noted [...]  

PASADENA, Calif. — It’s an old joke, but, when David Lee Roth delivers the punch line, it sounds more like a mission statement. “How many lead singers does it take to put in a light bulb? One. You hold the bulb and wait for the world to re ...  

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Two more 90-second clips from Van Halen's upcoming album have surfaced, bringing the total number of album tracks teased by the band so far to nine.More news: Van HalenAll the latest music and artist coverage from SoundSpike  

As Grammy Awards weekend descends upon us, we're looking towards next week's Billboard 200 albums chart, where a bevy of new releases are aiming for high debuts. Van Halen could notch its first No. 1 album since 1996 with its new "A Different Kind of Truth ...  

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The Bryce Jordan Center announced earlier today that the Van Halen concert scheduled for March 26 has been canceled. According to BJC of sales and marketing director Bernie Punt, Live Nation, the show's promoter, gave no reason for the cancellation.  

A Different Kind of Truth Van Halen Interscope Records ★★★ Note to every middle-aged rock band looking to stage a big comeback this year: take your cues from Van Halen. Like a cat with nine lives (and several pairs of spandex pants), Van Halen keeps taking a fall and getting ...  

First! Adele just might wind up with the record that spends the most weeks atop Billboard's Top 200 albums, after all. Her 21 moved 116,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan, holding off Tim McGraw's Emotional Traffic and six other Top 10 debuts to notch its 18th non-consecutive week of chart dominance. With that, the British singer's sophomore album pulls ahead of Billy Ray Cyrus' Some Gave All and ties the 1991-1992 rein of Garth Brooks...  

He might also be viewed as the Elizabeth Taylor of rock considering the way he divorces lead singers, including Sammy Hagar — and, if so, Roth is forever his Richard Burton. Roth, meanwhile, passed time touring with an Eddie Van Halen ...  

Tickets bought with cash, check or Lion Cash will need to be returned to the BJC box office for processing, either in person or through the mail, Punt wrote. Ticketholders can return their tickets via mail to Van Halen Refunds, Bryce Jordan ...  

Former Van Halen lead singer Sammy Hagar struck a sour note in his review of his former band's new single, "Tattoo." "I personally don’t think that what they have just released, what I have seen and heard, is great at all," Hagar told Britain's Cack Blabbath.  

There, in a converted space that held several hundred industry revelers, smack-dab in the middle of the large and storied recording complex (where, legend has it, the ghost of Karen Carpenter still lives), original members Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth ...  

If a CD drops on a Tuesday, and there's no one around to hear it, does it really make a sound? That's basically the question the record industry has been grappling with in the age of digital downloading.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

A look at the latest music releases, including the first Van Halen album featuring David Lee Roth since the '80s, plus a new solo record from Paul McCartney  

WASHINGTON - Having personally known Van Halen for years, especially Sammy Hagar -- the lead singer who replaced David Lee Roth in the mid 80s -- I was especially excited to listen to their new CD, "A different kind of truth." There are thirteen songs ...  

After more than 25 years of anonymity, the woman who played the teacher in Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" music video has come forward. Her name is Lillian Muller and she has not changed one bit. The 60-year-old beauty currently works as an ...  

Rocker Sammy Hagar has blasted his former Van Halen bandmates’ comeback album, revealing it left him cold and unimpressed when he heard it. The band’s former frontman was not asked to be part of the group’s 2012 plans and now he’s glad ...  

Another bigger wave of new releases by some big names and smaller important ones. I've included info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may never have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

Van Halen's back with "A Different Kind of Truth," and why not? Those who miss the halcyon days of guitar rock are likely curious about ... speed metal ("China Town," "As Is") and bar blues ("Stay Frosty") owe everything to the guitarist.  

Dave's coming back ... "Let's write a song." It was a good day. Are you freaking out at this point? It's every kid's fantasy to sing with Van Halen. It was surreal. Even when I was in the band, Nuno and Pat would call and go, "I can't believe ...  

Welcome to Van Halen Day. In honor of the band's album "A Different Kind of Truth" due out Tuesday, WBAB / 102.3 FM is playing all Van Halen music starting at 8 a.m. "We're thrilled that destiny finally reunited Eddie Van Halen and David Lee ...  

With tickets for the first half of their upcoming tour now on the market, rockers Van Halen are preparing to roll out tickets for the tour's second leg.More news: Van HalenAll the latest music and artist coverage from SoundSpike  

Van Halen gets back to the business of being Van Halen on its first new album since the 20th Century, “A Different Kind of Truth” (Interscope). After more than a decade of revolving-door singers (three to be exact: Sammy Hagar, David Lee ...  

On Monday Van Halen's David Lee Roth Explains Tattoo was a top story. Here is the recap: (hennemusic) Van Halen's David Lee Roth has issued a new video as the singer shares his inspiration for the lyrics to "Tattoo." Released last week, the song is the ...  

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It's been just under two weeks since we witnessed Van Halen being ridiculous 15 different ways at New Yorks' Café Wha? and first laid our ears on Van Halen's comeback single "Tattoo." Just in case you felt the Dylanesque lyrics like "Swap Meet Sally, tramp stamp tat. Housewife to momshell, in the time it takes to get that new tattoo" needed further analysis, David Lee Roth has stepped up with a six-minute-long video discussing the genesis of...  

For Van Halen, now is not the time for innovation, and that time might never come again for the band. No, what is required for “A Different Kind of Truth” is restoration, and consequently the first Van Halen album recorded with David Lee ...  

On Tuesday David Lee Roth Releases Handwritten Lyrics To New Van Halen Single was a top story. Here is the recap: (hennemusic) David Lee Roth has offered up an image of his handwritten lyrics to the new Van Halen single, "Tattoo." The song, from the band's ...  

Unofficial VAN HALEN web site VHLinks.com has uploaded VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth's handwritten lyrics and graphics for "Tattoo", the first single off the band's forthcoming album, "A Different Kind Of Truth".  

Miranda Cosgrove keeps warms in a cute jacket as she arrives at the for the Van Halen concert held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (February 8). Miranda is also pictured at the 2012 Art Directors Guild Awards at The ...  

(hennemusic) Howard Stern put together a radio special called "The Whole Truth: The Howard Stern Van Halen Special" - a 5-hour uncensored history of Van Halen on The Howard Stern Show. The program aired Tuesday, the day VH's new album, "A Different Kind Of ...  

Interviews: If you've been following the news articles on UG in the past couple of months, you'll know that ex-Van Halen frontman has been very vocal on his thoughts about the band's recent reunion.  

Earlier this month, Van Halen delivered a bravura performance for music journalists and industry movers and shakers at the Cafe Wha? in New York City. The 11-song, hit-filled set was a brisk, loose and punchy rejoinder to critics who doubted whether the ...  

Van Halen’s first new studio album with David Lee Roth in 28 years is named “A Different Kind of Truth,” but the Feb. 7 release could have just as easily been called “I Will Not Go Quietly” “Truth” is a heavy slab of rock delivered on a ...  

Van Halen return this week with 'A Different Kind of Truth ... Killswitch Engage didn't just ask their original frontman Jesse Leach to rejoin the band after the departure of Howard Jones, they made him audition. The band posted a new group photo with ...  

No, Van Halen haven't been involved in some gruesome crime, though it's not like anybody at the reunited rockers' upcoming shows is going to be calling out requests for latest release "Tattoo." But the David Lee Roth-fronted band will, in fact, be airing "Tattoo" and a previously unheard song titled "Stay Frosty" on tonight's episode of CBS crime show CSI, at least according to unofficial Van Halen site Van Halen News Desk (via Blabbermouth...  

(hennemusic) On February 18, Kool & The Gang hit the road opening for Van Halen. The unlikely pairing was not only a surprise for fans, but for the RnB band themselves. "I was kind of surprised," co-founder Robert "Kool" Bell tells Billboard.com, "because ...  

After all the years of discussing of a Van Halen reunion with original band lead singer David Lee Roth, it finally happened! "A Different Kind Of Truth" marks the return of Roth with brand new songs since the album "1984"...  

It's on! According to industry sources, both Van Halen's A Different Kind of Truth and Adele's 21 will be fighting for the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 next week! We're hearing that the new Van Halen album is set to sell 180,000 to 200,000 copies, which SHOULD land it that top spot on the chart…but [...]  

It's gonna be close... Van Halen could well get their sixth #1 album, unless the Grammys give Adele the win. Billboard reports that Van Halen's A Different Kind of Truth should move between 180,000 to 200,000 copies by the end of the week. While that would ...  

Van Halen - with singer David Lee Roth, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen and bassist (and Valerie Bertinelli's son) Wolfgang Van Halen -- has just released the single and video for "Tattoo," the group's first song with Roth in ...  

"I know those words.") But with just over a week before the tour kicks off next Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky, Van Halen seemed concerned with making a bigger-picture point last night: They were proving they're ready to entertain arenas ...  

The ensemble playing (let’s not forget Alex Van Halen) on “Outta Space” is outta sight. Some of the clumsier or less-inspired entries — like the double-time “China Town,” the super heavy “Honeybabysweetiedoll,” or “Stay Frosty,” from ...