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 ...

David Lee Roth was out and Sammy Hagar was in. You also saw Eddie Van Halen’s guitar playing—and his guitars—evolve. But the close of Van Halen 1.0 might be the group’s finest 33 minutes and 10 ...

One of the most hard-driving rock songs of the 1980s about fast cars and fast women is Van Halen's 1984 hit "Panama." The song has a bit of a tale that made it stand out when we compiled our summer ...

The post Van Halen Broke Out the Synths and Conquered the Charts with 1984 appeared first on Consequence. In the early ‘80s, synthesizers and keyboards within the realm of heavy metal and hard rock ...

If you ever saw Van Halen live, hopefully you were enjoying the music in the moment and not thinking about which songs have gotten the most attention, set list-wise. But for those curious minds, ...

The unique thing about a Black Jacket Symphony’s Van Halen 1984 show is that the entire house is always packed with Van Halen fans, both in the crowd and on the stage. “It’s an authentic show,” said ...

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 ...

Although Van Halen could do more or less whatever they wanted, Eddie knew that they always had those songs they could rely on.