Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, David Lee Roth, and Eddie Van Halen in 1978. (Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns) “If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your ...

“If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records,” was famously David Lee Roth’s sales pitch for the legendary California hard rock quartet he ...

Just like the final moments of New Year’s Eve in 1999 did not close out the 20th Century or the millennium (despite what Prince sang in “1999”), musical eras of rock ’n’ roll do not align with decades ...

A previous Sotheby’s sale for a guitar owned by Van Halen — that one on display in the band’s “Hot for Teacher” music video — netted $3,932,000 in April 2023. By Chris Gardner A piece of rock history ...

The former lead singer of rock band Van Halen, 66, revealed the news in a Las Vegas Review-Journal article Friday, saying he is "throwing in the shoes" and stepping back from his prolific music career ...

Director Robert Rodriguez caught a Mammoth show a few years ago and quickly became a fan, so when the opportunity to work together arose, Wolfgang Van Halen jumped. "[We] hit it off a few years ago," ...

Late last week, Sammy Hagar shared his new song “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight,” which he claims he wrote in a dream with Eddie Van Halen. “This was 100 percent a communication from the beyond,” Hagar ...

I don’t know about you, but whenever I think of this modern age of streaming, I sure as shit don’t think about old school hard rock and glam metal as being part of that equation. It’s not that stuff ...

When you speak of great guitarists like Jimmy Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, and B.B.King you can't forget to mention Eddie Van Halen. Great guitarists have signature styles and Van ...

This is FRESH AIR. I’m Tonya Mosley. Today, we continue our series featuring interviews from 2024, this time with Selena Gomez and Alex Van Halen. MOSLEY: Along with his late brother, Eddie, Alex is a ...