“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 ...

Jeff Cornell is a veteran music and entertainment writer, who has contributed to Variety, Billboard, Loudwire, The Hollywood Reporter, and MTV. Back in 1986, Van Halen launched a new chapter with the ...

If there was one 70s rock band that seemed machine-tooled for the dawning new decade, it was Van Halen. Frontman David Lee Roth knew it back in 1978, with the debut album Van Halen going platinum.

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 ...

This wasn’t easy, but it was fun – like most things with Van Halen. Ranking any great band’s discography is bound to irritate some fans, especially a band like this, which enjoyed two highly ...