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The Top Five Musical Resurrections of 2012

Van Halen - American Airlines Center - 6/20/12

Van Halen, Kool & The Gang American Airlines Center Wednesday, June 20 See also: The five worst and five most underrated Van Halen songs You have to hand it to Diamond Dave. Sure, he can't hit all those high notes like back in the day, but he gave it the good fight. Often talking more than singin ... More >>

The Five Worst and Five Most Underrated Van Halen Songs

Seeing that Van Halen somehow managed to NOT cancel their show tonight at American Airlines Center, I decided to go through the band's catalogue and come up with a couple of lists. First comes the bad, and then comes the diamonds in the poo-poo. The Five Worst Van Halen Songs 1. "Hot for Teacher" ... More >>

Van Halen Postpones Handful of Concert Dates: Dallas Is Still On, Though

Better grab tickets for Van Halen's June 20 show at the American Airlines Center while you still can. The band's North American tour just got significantly lighter. Turns out the group (David Lee Roth'll be on hand for the Dallas) has postponed 30 or so concert dates after June 26, which means the ... More >>

Russell Allen of Symphony X Talks Classic Literature's Connection to Star Wars and How Social Media Is Enslaving the Population

Purveyors of heavy metal always seem to be obsessed with epic literature.Take Russell Allen of Symphony X. He's fronted New Jersey's progressive metal act for nearly 20 years, and in that time, Symphony X has released albums based on both The Odyssey and Paradise Lost. Last year, they released Icono ... More >>

The Problem With... The Cranberries' "Tomorrow"

Last year saw a wave of popular bands from a few decades ago reuniting and releasing new material. The wave continues this year with new albums from Van Halen, puzzling announcements by Fiona Apple, and the Irish yodeling of Dolores O'Riordan and The Cranberries. The band will release a new album, R ... More >>

Might As Well Jump: Van Halen Returns to Dallas This Summer

​"Van Halen announces 2012 North American tour" is one of those email subject lines I was almost afraid to open. Because, really, the world doesn't need any more Hagar. Yes, I know it's fashionable to hate on the "other" Van Halen singer, but let's be honest: "Poundcake" was his best song. Dav ... More >>

10 Intriguing Classic Rock Albums to Watch for in 2012

Roger CaldwellFinally, another excuse to use this photo​Most all of us know the deal when it comes to new music from a famous, old school rock artist: It's a waiting game. A waiting game daunted with a lot of vague answers, and sometimes pretty flaky behavior. Some would say this is due to ... More >>

The Top Ten All Time Best Replacement Lead Singers in Rock and Roll

The Misfits' Michale Graves​Nothing pisses rock fans off worse than the lead singer of their favorite band being replaced. This happens across genres, but it's most common within hard rock -- pop, country and R&B vocalists' departures are usually a precursor to their solo efforts; very rarely ... More >>

All-Time Top Five: Testament's Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick Give A Metal History Lesson

Testament​Berkeley's Testament has now been shredding for almost three decades. Just the fact that they're still making quality examples of the style they helped usher in says a great deal about the group's artistic character. Sure, as is the case with just about every other band that's stayed rel ... More >>

The Top 10 Music Video Vixens of All Time

Jani Lane was 47.​Last night, Warrant singer Jani Lane died alone in a motel room in Los Angeles. He was 47 years old. The news was somewhat puzzling for those who didn't know him. At one time, Lane was on top of the world, with several hits that topped the charts. But Lane also battled an addi ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Van Halen Runs With the Devil to Reunion in '82

Via.​Hard to believe it took this long to get to Van Halen, everyone's favorite metal band back then, especially if you didn't like metal, mostly because it was just catchy pop anyway. Thought this would be a good one to dust off for tomorrow's Lone Star Beer-sponsored Forest festivities; can't re ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 40: LehtMoJoe

​Like most babies from the '80s who grew up with an ear for music, Vincent Sliva dedicated hours of his youth to recording his favorite songs off the radio onto cassette tapes. But rather than just playing them back on his boombox, he tried to sync the songs up with other songs on the b-side ... More >>

"People Openly Lit Up and Smoked Marijuana": Take a Big Whiff of the Texxas Jam in 1978

As many times as the Texxas Jam's come up, I can't believe we've never seen this: Channel 8's coverage of the '78 "Texxas Music Festival," featuring reporter Randy Jackson's sweat-soaked, dope-smoked coverage of the billion-degree July 1 concert at the Cotton Bowl. Among the headliners that day: Aer ... More >>

My First Show: Don Cento Saw Van Halen, Metallica and a Trash Tsunami at His First Show

Welcome to a Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. Allison V. SmithDon Cento​Don Cento is a familiar face around town, given his time as a keyboardist with Chomsky and as a guitarist in Shibboleth. But this skilled ... More >>

.357 Lover Covers Katy Perry's "California Gurls," Throws Some Van Halen In For Kicks

Well, this is pretty much priceless. The above clip features noted former Dentonite Corn Mo and his band .357 Lover covering Katy Perry's "California Gurls" and tossing a little Van Halen "Panama" into the mix for good measure. It's kind of like a mash-up, but mostly, it's just a good time. Or so it ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Mini KISS at Jaguars Gold Club

Mini KissJuly 9, 2010Jaguars Gold ClubBetter than: watching a Dr Pepper commercial on loop.All photos by Roderick Pullum.Mini KISS: Not just a band made up for TV. Check the slideshow here.​In this TV-placement-is-a-necessity-to-survive era, many a band has established itself by getting its songs ... More >>

Chickenfoot

Monday, September 21,at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

The King of Pop is Dead

So confirms The Los Angeles Times, and on the same day Farrah Fawcett dies, no less. While we and the rest of the known universe gather our thoughts and Jackson Five greatest-hits collections, here, from the Victory Tour, is Michael in his prime. Locals will recall well the three days during the sum ... More >>

Please Stop Listening To Classic Rock

Van Halen Get Gamey, Jane's Addiction Doesn't Stop, Ean Evans Dies

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 8, 2009... Time to practice your hammer-ons and roll-offs--Guitar Hero: Van Halen will hit shelves some time in the second half of this year. Band in-fighting and prima donna attitudes not included. Jane's Addiction may be jumping on board the ... More >>

Ticketmaster and Livenation Merger Hearings Reveal a Hell of a Secret: Bands Get a Cut of Service Fees

Gig Alert: Marnie Stern at The Lounge Tonight

Meet the guitar goddess.The realm of guitar gods, much like the beardo deities promoted by organized religions for centuries, is overwhelmingly dude-centric. Whether biblical originators (see Clapton, Hendrix and Paige) or post-modern satirists (see Angus Young and Nigel Tufnel), we know the routine ... More >>

Automorrow

The Diver EP (Self-released)

Echoes & Reverberations: Van Halen’s “Almost Infamous”

Van Halen

Thursday, April 24, at American Airlines Center

Van Halen, Dead or Alive Tonight at AAC? Dead, Dead, Dead.

Van Halen: Definitely Postponed

The Van Halen Culprit: Eddie's Sick

Right Now

(Well, We) Might As Well Jump (Too)...

Tom Petty Free Fallin' to Dallas

Over The Weekend: Hooch and Pooch, Keller Williams, Van Halen and Sundance

Good Friday: The Lash Outs, Record Hop, Tree Wave, Bluesfest

Diamond in the Doo-Doo

David Lee Roth and Co. jump at the AAC

Satan's Playlist

Never fear—we've got your Halloween mixtape here

Join the Crüe

Firewater throws down for a good cause

Static Electricity

Pimpin' With a Mullet

Artist Ryan Humphrey riffs on hot-rod and rocker culture

Slammin' Sammy

Dirty Life and Times

The media's sanitized coverage of Dimebag's memorial service left out all the good parts

Feels Like Old Times

With Sammy Hagar back onstage, Van Halen trudges on

Van Halen

The Best of Both Worlds (Rhino)

The Zapruder Sequence

The Zapruder Sequence (Self-released)

Best Radio Station

KDBN-FM (93.3), The Bone

Robert Plant

Dreamland (Universal)

David Lee Roth Band

Reunion Arena

Small apologies

Eddie Van Halen doesn't really care if you like the "new" Van Halen

Out Here

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