Sammy Hagar announced a new single featuring a riff he says Eddie Van Halen showed him in a dream in April 2025.

Although Sammy Hagar has had fairly thick skin in rock history, he admitted when he thought time could have been different for him.

I didn’t have enough respect for him to fear that job.” As Van Halen continued working on the new album at 5150, there was one notable absentee. For the first time in the band’s career ...

In an adjacent garage was Eddie’s recording studio, 5150. Named after the Californian police term for a mentally disturbed person, the studio had been designed by Donn Landee, the engineer who had ...

Albums like 5150 and OU812 topped the charts ... the former frontman of the band Extreme. The band’s 1998 album Van Halen III with Cherone was a commercial disappointment, and his tenure ...

45 years ago today (3/26/80), Van Halen released their third album Women and Children First. The LP was the first to feature all compositions by the band themselves (no covers) and features some of ...

After years of honing their performance and songwriting skills on the club scene, Van Halen exploded onto the rock world at large with their self-titled 1978 debut album. Van Halen kept the pedal ...

5150 already gave them a firm basis to work off of when ... a lot of the record felt like a meandering version of an Eddie Van Halen solo album than anything having to do with the mainline releases of ...

"To me, space symbolizes mystery, the unknown, and infinite possibility. — Francois van Coke. Die Ruimte, the highly anticipated fifth solo album from South Africa’s 8-time SAMAs winner Francois van ...

So, to ensure the best result, Jackson made sure to get help from one of the greats of the rock genre — songwriter and guitarist Eddie Van Halen. Donald Trump Gives DOGE Update as Elon Musk Says ...

A lot of rock and metal players will be familiar with the Eddie Van Halen connection and the collaboration that gave birth to the original 5150 signature amps from 1992 to 2004, which continued as ...

Van Halen didn't start writing and recording ballads until Sammy Hagar joined the band following David Lee Roth's departure after the career-changing 1984 album. For better or worse, Hagar's ...