Alex Van Halen shares rare recording of a young Eddie Van Halen playing guitar to mark the late guitar great’s birthday

To mark what would have been Eddie Van Halen's 71st birthday on January 26, his brother and Van Halen drummer, Alex Van Halen ...
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Best debut album ever? Van Halen I album review

Ozarks First’s Parker Padgett and Tony Nguyen dive into Van Halen’s 1978 album “Van Halen”, highlighting Eddie Van Halen’s ...
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Why AI music will always be disposable

Working in journalism, I get asked a lot if I’m scared that the artificial intelligence boom will make writers obsolete. To me, it’s a laughable question.

“I was embarrassingly inexperienced.” Steve Vai on the guitarist who “saved his bacon” with a vital piece of gear when he was a greenhorn in David Lee Roth’s band

Steve Vai was still building his résumé when David Lee Roth handpicked him to front the former Van Halen singer’s band in 1985. But as Vai now explains, it took the intervention of a seasoned pro to ...
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"Being in a band with someone is very intimate. You exchange ideas, you have arguments, it’s exciting." The story behind the Fear City punk rock demo that Mado…

Gilroy welcomed his girlfriend's new-found confidence and recognised her star quality, and when Madonna moved from the back ...