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New Van Halen Single Released Today!

In an email sent out by the band today, Van Halen has revealed their new single, "Tattoo", the first single off their new album "A Different Kind of Truth"! The single can now be purchased on iTunes and you can also PREORDER the entire album, which will be available on February 7!

Van Halen has released their initial tour dates - with more coming soon.  

DATE	CITY	VENUE	ON SALE (GEN)
2/18/2012	Louisville, KY	KFC Yum! Center	1/16/2012
2/20/2012	Detroit, MI	The Palace of Auburn Hills	1/14/2012
2/22/2012	Indianapolis, IN	Conseco Fieldhouse	1/14/2012
2/24/2012	Chicago, IL	United Center	1/14/2012
2/28/2012	New York, NY	Madison Square Garden	1/14/2012
3/1/2012	New York, NY	Madison Square Garden	1/14/2012
3/3/2012	Uncasville, CT	Mohegan Sun	1/14/2012
3/5/2012	Philadelphia, PA	Wells Fargo Center	1/14/2012
3/9/2012	Buffalo, NY	First Niagra Center	1/14/2012
3/11/2012	Boston, MA	TD Garden	1/14/2012
3/15/2012	Montreal, QC	Bell Centre	1/14/2012
3/17/2012	Toronto, ON	Air Canada Centre	1/14/2012
3/21/2012	Ottawa, ON	Scotiabank Place	1/14/2012
3/24/2012	Atlantic City	Boardwalk Hall	coming soon
3/28/2012	Washington, DC	Verizon Center	1/14/2012
3/30/2012	Pittsburgh, PA	Consol Energy Center	1/14/2012
4/1/2012	Rosemont, IL	Allstate Arena	1/14/2012

 Click HERE for the full schedule and links to VIP tickets: http://www.van-halen.com/tour.html

Rolling Stone: Journalists across New York have been invited to a Van Halen concert at the Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village this Thursday. Though nothing is official, word is the band are going to perform a 45-minute set. The group hasn't played in public since the end of their 2007/'08 reunion tour with original frontman David Lee Roth, though they have been rehearsing for their upcoming world tour at the Roxy in Los Angeles for the past few months. A new album is in the works, and a new image released by the band has the date 2.7.12 on it. A new video and single is expected to hit sometime this month. The tour goes on sale January 10th.

Full Article: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/van-halen-to-perform-at-new-yorks-cafe-wha-this-thursday-20120102#ixzz1iQ6QQg7R

VAN HALEN ANNOUNCES 2012 TOUR!

New York Daily News:  Van Halen announced Monday on its website that the band is going on tour next year with original lead singer David Lee Roth, who left the band during its heyday in 1985, back behind the mic.

The band will not be touring with its entire classic lineup, however. Original bassist Mike Anthony is enjoying success with another ex-Van Halen singer, Sammy Hagar, in the supergroup Chickenfoot. Eddie’s son Wolfgang took over Anthony’s spot during an ill-fated 2007 tour - that was shortened when Eddie Van Halen went into rehab for alcohol abuse.

Lee Roth had rejoined the band for that tour, but remained in limbo as Van Halen's future was unclear. Then earlier this year, Rolling Stone Magazine reported that the band was hard at work at recording a new studio album. Eddie’s brother, Alex, is the only other original member to have stayed with the band since its inception in the ’70s.

The first tickets for the Van Halen 2012 tour go on sale Jan. 10.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/van-halen-officially-reunites-david-lee-roth-2012-world-tour-article-1.996965#ixzz1hgG9a0QA

Blabbermouth.net: Van Halen a "No-Show" at Grammy Nomination Concert

Although it was strongly hinted that VAN HALEN would make a "special announcement" on November 30 at the Grammy Awards nominations concert, the event came and went without the band making an appearance.

Grammy organizers had been promising for weeks that Wednesday's televised concert would feature "a special live announcement from a truly iconic group regarding their historic reunion set to take place on the Grammy stage on February 12, 2012.

See the entire story:  http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=166706

Triple M: Van Halen Australia Tour for 2012

This is the news we we want to here. The aborted Van Halen tour of Australia is back on the table for 2012. A week following the cancellation of Soundwave Revolution, which they were headlining, two promoters have gone in and spoken to Van Halen management and band saying 'we really want Van Halen here next year'.

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Triple M:  It's Official: Soundwave Revolution 2011 Cancelled 

We hate to be the bearer of bad news but the Soundwave Revolution 2011 has been cancelled. Soundwave tour organiser AJ Maddah told a Sydney radio station this afternoon that they decided to cancel next month's festival after the second headliner pulled out. The organisers believed  the lineup wasn't strong enough to go ahead. An official statement posted on the Soundwave official website said:"It is with great sadness that we announce the cancellation of the Revolution Festival."  MORE

ROLLING STONE: Van Halen have entered the studio to record their first album in 27 years with original frontman David Lee Roth.

Though no official announcement has been made, producer John Shanks tweeted about starting the project last week and shared a photograph of Eddie Van Halen's distinctive guitar amp. Shanks, who has recorded albums with Bon Jovi, Jane's Addiction and Fleetwood Mac, had been rumored as the producer for the new album for some time.

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According to Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff, Van Halen will tour again in 2010.   This was a surprise announcement, and came during the Q&A section of a separate discussion .  See the full story here-

http://pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2009/09/09/688238.aspx

From PR-Inside.com: EDDIE VAN HALEN has given VAN HALEN fans cause to celebrate after revealing he's planning to regroup with his son, brother and frontman DAVID LEE ROTH to record new material. The Van Halens and Lee Roth hit the road for a successful hits tour in 2007 and now the quartet is intent on releasing an album of new songs.

Guitar great Eddie Van Halen tells Spinner.com he plans to hit the studio with his son Wolfie, brother Alex and Lee Roth after his June (09) wedding to publicist Janie Liszewski. He says, "I hope that after Janie and I get married, and Wolfie graduates, that we sit down and discuss recording new music, which I have tons of.

"If Dave's up for singing... then (we'll) do another tour, and just see where it takes us. Actually, next week or the week after Wolfie, Alex, and I are gonna start jamming. Maybe we'll give Dave a call and see what he's up to. He's off, always doing his own thing, and he checks in every now and then to see how we're doing."

You've been hearing about the new David Lee Roth "Assteroidz" video game - check it out here !

Rolling Stone:
Days before Heart served the GOP campaign with a cease-and-desist letter for playing their 1977 hit “Barracuda” to introduce VP pick Sarah Palin (high school alias: “Sarah Barracuda”) at the August 31st Republican convention,
Van Halen sounded off against McCain and Co. for blasting their tune “Right Now” at a rally in Dayton, Ohio. “Permission was not sought or granted nor would it have been given [to use the song],” Alex and Eddie Van Halen said in a statement. But not every VH member agreed.

“I got goosebumps from it — my fur went up,” says the band’s ex-frontman, Sammy Hagar, who co-wrote and sang the song — and said he’d be “just as happy” if Obama played it. “I was honored that a potential president of the United States used those words in a positive sense, like, ‘We gotta act now!’ ”

Hagar, who’s tight-lipped on his presidential endorsement (”I vote for the man, not the party,” he says) heard that McCain used the tune via a deluge of phone calls. “I got calls from relatives, friends, doctors, lawyers… everyone thought it was so cool,” he says. “Then I started getting excited. Those words are an old Zen philosophy — it’s totally cool that they’re timeless.” Even former bandmate Eddie rang Hagar up.

“I got a message on my cell phone and it was Eddie’s voice,” Hagar recalls. “He goes, ‘Sam? This don’t sound like you. I got the wrong number.’ And he hangs up! So I hit redial. He didn’t answer, but I left a message: ‘Ed, it’s me. If you would like to talk about the ‘Right Now’ situation I’d love to speak to you about it.’ ”

The two never connected, which raises some lingering questions. “Why didn’t [Van Halen] say no when Pepsi Cola gave us a million dollars to use the song in a Pepsi Light commercial?” asks Hagar. “That’s when you say no. That isn’t the message of this song.” But when a potential future president is using it to bring a message to the world, he says, “I’m going, ‘Hell, yes!’”

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/09/12/gops-use-of-right-now-leads-to-sammy-hagar-eddie-van-halen-phone-tag/

VAN HALEN 2007-2008 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR HIGHEST GROSSING IN BAND’S HISTORY
Arena Concerts Sell Out Across The Country, Grossing More Than $93 Million

(Los Angeles, CA) June 5, 2008 – Nearly a million fans journeyed from all over the world to witness the landmark VAN HALEN tour, which kicked-off in September of 2007 in Charlotte, NC and wrapped up June 2, 2008 in Grand Rapids, MI. VAN HALEN, featuring Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen and Wolfgang Van Halen delivered their bombastic live assault performances to legions of loyal fans at 75 arena concerts throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Performing live with Roth for the first time in more than 23 years, VAN HALEN proved its timeless catalog of hits still packs the punch it did decades earlier. Each night, the band treated the capacity audiences to a dream set list of more than two hours of VAN HALEN gems plucked from their original era. Favorites including, “Jump”, “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”, “Panama” and more, received a jolt of vivacity and spirit.

“We send our thanks to the countless new and lifetime fans that helped make this tour our most successful,” said VAN HALEN in a joint statement. “We also send special gratitude to the tireless efforts of the VAN HALEN touring crew, Live Nation and the media, as well as opening acts Ky Mani Marley and Ryan Shaw,” the band went on to say.
Now that the final bits of confetti have fallen, VAN HALEN has their sights set on bright horizons with exciting developments on the way.

Visit http://www.van-halen.com/news.html for a Photo Gallery from the tour.

EDDIE VAN HALEN Reveals Guitar 'Secrets' In New Interview - May 29, 2008

RollingStone.com has posted a new interview with VAN HALEN guitar legend Eddie Van Halen as part of a new series of articles called "Secrets Of The Guitar Heroes." An excerpt from the chat follows.

RollingStone.com: Your biggest innovation was two-handed tapping — using both hands to fret notes simultaneously. Where did you get the idea?

Eddie Van Halen: "I was watching Jimmy Page going [sings hammering guitar lick], like that, with one hand, in 'Heartbreaker'. I thought, 'I can play like that, and you wouldn't know if I was using this finger [points to left hand] or this one' [points to right hand]. But you just kind of move it around, and it's like, 'You got one big hand there, buddy. That's a hell of a spread!'"

Sammy Hagar Interview
Ross Cat of Best of WNY recently spoke with Sammy Hagar about his current outing and they discussed what role his former bandmate Michael Anthony will play as well as the possibility of the "The Other Half" teaming up with Van Halen for a tour.

Sammy told Ross, "Mike will be popping in and out of the tour for sure. He really wants to play with us at the stadium shows that we are doing with Kenny Chesney. At this time I'm not exactly sure when he's going to be playing; one things for sure knowing Mikey he can't stay home when Sammy and the Wabo's are out on tour, we've found that out over the last ten years. He's played on about 90% of our gigs since the last VH reunion; he's usually around by hook or by crook." Ross then asked, "you toured with David Lee Roth back in 2003 any chance you'd be willing to set aside differences and give Van Halen fans the 'Best of Both Worlds' with all 5 guys touring together?" Sammy Responded, "As far as that goes that's just not something I'm really interested in doing again right now, Eddie would have to be able to bring himself back to ground zero; by that I mean he'd have to be completely clean."

You can see the full interview with Sammy Hagar here -

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