Straight outta Pasadena, Van Halen were America's ultimate party band, monstrously entertaining and gleefully ambitious, a classically Californian quartet formed by two Dutch immigrants. They also ...

As guests on The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, singer Sammy Hagar and guitarist Joe Satriani named the most difficult Van Halen riff to play. The shred legend called one riff "impossible to play" ...

Van Halen had survived changing lead singers and the group’s two previous albums with Sammy Hagar, 5150 and OU812, were full of hits. However, the ’90s was a tumultuous period for them, not because of ...

Finding a good Van Halen summer song is about as difficult as finding sand on the beach. The group got their start backyard parties in and around perpetually sunny Los Angeles, and remained the living ...

Argue if you must about which Van Halen era was the finest. Whether you’re in the David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar lead singer camp, you can’t deny that the band, in both incarnations, did quite well ...

The '90s were a turbulent time for Van Halen. After soaring through the previous decade as quite possibly the most universally beloved rock band on the planet, the group hit bumpier terrain in the ...

A quintessential classic Van Halen song must have several crucial elements: thundering drums, rumbling bass that is felt more than heard, an outrageously cocky vocal performance, a killer guitar riff, ...