More news from VHND.com! This info comes not from the band, but from trusted industry sources. One week from today we will all be hearing a brand new song from Van Halen! We are hearing that the song is titled "TATTOO". Their new album is due February 7th (The album title is still a secret, believe it or not)! Regarding the 2012 tour - we are hearing that Van Halen's tour … [Read more...]
Van Halen News
Van Halen to Perform at New York’s Cafe Wha? This Thursday
This story sounds too good to be true, but we confirmed it with the band - it's true! From RollingStone: By Andy Greene January 2, 2012 7:55 PM ET Journalists across New York have been invited to a Van Halen concert at the Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village this Thursday. Though nothing is official, word is the band are going to perform a 45-minute set. The group hasn't … [Read more...]
Van Halen Reminiscing About Wet T-Shirt Contests and Ed’s Beat Up Volvo
Van Halen has given the VHLinks message board a couple exclusive goodies - two short videos similar to the VHND's “King of Gazzarri’s” video. The first one has Dave, Al, and Ed reminiscing about the wet t-shirt contests that Van Halen would host in clubs in the seventies. In the second, Roth gets Eddie to describe his beat up Volvo he had back then. Great stuff! The videos … [Read more...]
Van Halen Billboard in Times Square Tonight
1/1/12 UPDATE: It's estimated that one million people flooded Times Square last night to watch the ball drop and ring in 2012, and that an additional 100 million in the U.S. and a billion people worldwide watched the festivities on TV. 12/31/11 UPDATE: Van Halen has a billboard in Times Square for New Years Eve tonight! It will be the train graphic and it will … [Read more...]
Van Halen – King of Gazzarri’s
The band just sent us a new tidbit, just for VHND.com! We'll call it "King of Gazzarri's"! How fucking cool is this?! Van Halen, just sitting around, laughing and sharing memories from the club days? More to come! … [Read more...]
Van Halen Exclusive: Raw Footage and New Photos from the Roxy
Here's another exclusive that VHND.com received straight from the band! It's footage of Van Halen performing at the Roxy, but without the crawling text along the bottom. View it below! Also, here's two more never-seen photos as promised. Are you as pumped as we are for the new Van Halen album and tour?? … [Read more...]
Van Halen Rehearsals!
From TheROXYonSunset.com: For the past 2 months VAN HALEN has been rehearsing here 2-3 times a week!!!!!! Do you have any idea how hard that was to not tell you?? When you come in at 10:00AM and David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, and Wolfgang Van Halen are on stage with 3 other people in the room playing “Running With The Devil” and you can’t say … [Read more...]
Exclusive: Van Halen Release Dates, New Photos Revealed!
The Van Halen News Desk (VHND.com) has breaking news on all things surrounding the much anticipated new Van Halen album! Here's the schedule of events leading up to the new album's release: JANUARY 10th: *FIRST SINGLE PREMIERE *FIRST MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE *CONCERT TICKETS GO ON SALE FEBRUARY 7th: NEW ALBUM RELEASE DATE ALBUM TITLE: "The Future" is not the album … [Read more...]
Van Halen Tour in 2012 – Tickets on Sale Jan 10th!
After a year of rumors surrounding the release of singles and TV appearances, Van Halen have made an official announcement: The band will be hitting the road in 2012, with tickets for their first dates going on sale 10 January. Earlier today (26 December), the band posted the above clip that was shot at the the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California. Reportedly, the … [Read more...]
Happy Holidays
Eddie Van Halen posts, "Wishing family, friends and especially the fans a Happy Hanukah, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!" Also, the Van Halen News Desk wishes HAPPY HOLIDAYS to all our visitors! Bless you all and may we all have a helluva 2012! … [Read more...]
Eddie Van Halen Auctions Guitar For Charity
Eddie Van Halen is donating one of his guitars to raise money for the charity Drop In The Bucket, a Los Angeles based water charity that constructs wells and sanitation systems at large rural schools in sub-Saharan Africa.. This is not just any guitar – This is one of the first Wolfgang guitars ever produced and was owned by Eddie from 1999 to 2011. The guitar comes … [Read more...]
Rare Van Halen 1978 Radio Interview
A Van Halen fan in the UK has recently uploaded a Van Halen interview he recorded off local radio back in 1978 during the band's first UK tour. It's a chat with David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen. Van Halen interviews from the early years - especially from 1978 - are extremely rare. This one has never circulated until now. The photos were taken by Ross Halfin during Van Halen's … [Read more...]