“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 ...

Van Halen released some superb LPs while David Lee Roth was in the band. These four album-openers from that era still bring the thunder.

Wolfgang Van Halen has revealed Eddie Van Halen's favorite all-time album during a recent chat with Billy Corgan on The Magnificent Others podcast. The revelation came up as Corgan delved into the ...

A traumatic panic attack on the way to a Metallica show became the inspiration for the album’s title track and overall themes. Wolfgang was preparing for what would be the highest-altitude show he’d ...

Wolfgang Van Halen is continuing his family’s legacy, but he’s intent on forging his own path. The son of legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli, Wolfgang first took over ...

According to John, who is a huge KISS fan, he bought the Van Halen album because of “the cover alone,” which he said mentioned Gene Simmons. Simmons, who is thanked in the album’s liner notes, often ...

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 ...