Van Halen News

Former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar is joining a star-studded country music concert planned to benefit victims of last month's deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma.

When you talk guitar prodigies you may think of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Eddie Van Halen, to name a few of the axe legends.

The 411 Music Top Five 06.19.13: Top 5 Replacement Band Members Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 06.19.2013 From Sammy Hagar in Van Halen and Bruce Dickinson joining Iron Maiden to Jason Newsted in Metallica, Brian Johnson in AC/DC and more, the 411 staff counts down their top 5 replacement band members of all time! Criteria: A band's lineup is a ... (more)

Van Halen belatedly began its 2013 tour of Japan with a jumbo set that expanded to include "Jamie's Cryin,'" "Atomic Punk" and - just before the timeless "Ice Cream Man" - a special showing of David Lee Roth's cool short film "Tokyo Story."

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Speaking to NME at the festival, which took place from Friday to Sunday , the organiser replied to a question about whether he was eying David Lee Roth and co as future headliners.

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While other rockers of his vintage seem to be slowing down, Van Halen's David Lee Roth is still living it up - or, at the very least, still talking a very good game.

As you might've noticed, we occasionally post photo galleries that collect a particular year's Guitar World magazine covers.

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Red Rockin' former Van Halen frontman and Cabo Wabo tequila/nightclub founder Sammy Hagar and Emeril Lagasse could be opening a restaurant together.

Train, Sammy Hagar and a '90s package tour featuring Sugar Ray and Smash Mouth have been added to the lineup for the 2013 Minnesota State Fair Grandstand.

Chiseled rap royal LL Cool J and haggard guitar god Eddie Van Halen may seem like strange bedfellows.

Today would have been the 98th birthday of one of the world's greatest innovators, Les Paul.

T his isn't your average covers band. Yes, the Spazmatics' show is built around covers of '80s hits, but there's much more to it than that.

Many people believe that possessing talent alone is enough to guarantee an artist success in the music business.

"My dream was always to play in a rock back - and to me," Bissonette says in the Vic Firth video below, "there was no other rock band than Van Halen.

A: Jane Fonda tweeted before her total knee replacement: "So long, left knee. You're toast!" Since then she's been unstoppable.

C hiseled rap royal LL Cool J and haggard guitar god Eddie Van Halen may seem like strange bedfellows.

HDtracks has been on fire lately: not a week goes by where I don't receive some email from Lisa Hershfield - HDtracks PR person - informing me of some new release, that's actually interesting.