For someone synonymous with revamping lead guitar playing, Eddie Van Halen was never that in love with mindless shredding.

Four decades ago, Eddie Van Halen crafted one of his most iconic guitar solos under unexpected circumstances. Often in pop music, it's high-profile vocalists who join forces to create a memorable ...

The Nirvana classic embodies some soloing advice that Wolfgang once got from his dad, the late, great Eddie Van Halen ...

Don’t let the finality of The End fool you. Despite the connotations of the title of Wolfgang Van Halen’s third and latest ...

Van Halen may have given the world another guitar god, but one of the most mind-blowing moments of their debut was actually a mistake.

Formed in 1973 in Southern California, the rock band Van Halen is known for its titular lead guitar player and giant rock songs. Eddie Van Halen, who is simply one of the best six-string players in ...

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 ...

A previous Sotheby’s sale for a guitar owned by Van Halen — that one on display in the band’s “Hot for Teacher” music video — netted $3,932,000 in April 2023. By Chris Gardner A piece of rock history ...

What led you to do the book? Van Halen: There’s a lot of things that were left on the table, so to speak. I got the feeling Ed and I never got to complete what we came to the planet for -- that may be ...

First up for the Song Cake treatment is Wolfgang Van Halen, whose Mammoth project released their third album, The End, on ...

Sammy Hagar is about to release a song that features a guitar lick he says Eddie Van Halen showed him in a dream. Hagar revealed the origins of the song to UCR nearly three years ago, in an August ...