Released on Van Halen's 1984 - released that same year - Jump became the band's sole number 1 hit on the US Billboard 100.

It's hard to believe it's been 42 years since we first heard those opening synthesizer notes that changed everything. On ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before Van Halen, it was rare to hear the sounds of a hard rock band in most places, unless you were running with a crowd ...

Set your time machine for the year 1984, when late 70s rock bands experimented with new sounds and recorded songs that defined another decade.

“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 ...