“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 ...

Alex Van Halen recently did a tell all interview with Rolling Stone in which he went into full detail about the rumored Van Halen tribute tour that was supposed to take place, following the death of ...

Eddie Van Halen struggled with addiction his entire life. After doctors gave him steroid pills to combat swelling after surgery to remove a brain tumor near the end of his life, the legendary ...

Cantrell and Van Halen first met in 1991 when Alice in Chains supported the rock band Van Halen on their For Unlawful Carnal ...

Van Halen 3 producer Mike Post has revealed that Eddie Van Halen had to take over on drums in place of his brother Alex during the recording of the album. The 1998 record was the only Van Halen record ...

Eddie was lauded for the speed, fluidity, and melodicism of his playing, as well as the two-handed tapping technique he perfected. The guitarist and his brother, drummer Alex Van Halen, led their ...

There is no universe where Van Halen has ever been viewed as hip-hop or rap. Although, to Eddie, genres are an arbitrary tag that merely hinders his talent. So, when he discovered the opportunity to ...

When guitarist Eddie Van Halen died of cancer in 2020, his older brother Alex was overwhelmed by grief. Only 20 months apart in age, they had grown up together as "a yin and yang ... the two halves of ...

INDIO, Calif. — Sammy Hagar got the chance to work with his former bandmate, the late Eddie Van Halen, one last time. Hagar released a song, "Encore, Thank You, Goodnight," that came to him in a dream ...

Another guitar previously owned by Eddie Van Halen — and later, Mick Mars — is expected to fetch big bucks when it goes up for auction this year. The Kramer guitar in question is modeled after 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 ...