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Van Halen concert tickets are now available from Bay Area ticket broker Top Notch Seats. Tickets to all the remaining shows on the Van Halen 2012 North American tour can be found at http://www.topnotchseats.com. Campbell, CA (PRWEB) May 19, 2012 Van Halen concert tickets for the legendary band’s 2012 North American tour are now available online from Top Notch Seats, the premier Bay Area ticket broker. Tickets can also be purchased on mobile devices at http://www.topnotchseats.com....
LOS ANGELES, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Van Halen has added 18 concerts to its highly successful 2012 North American tour. The newly added dates begin July 7 with an encore performance at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Second shows have also been added in the Detroit and New York/New Jersey areas, as well as Philadelphia. Ky-mani Marley is the opening act for all added concerts. The full itinerary can be found below. Tickets for the newly announced shows go...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Van Halen, Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductees and one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time, announced their return to the live stage with an extraordinary 2012 North American tour. The announcement was made late last night, during a once-in-a-lifetime performance, at the intimate Cafe Wha? in New York City. Known around the world for some of the most iconic live performances in music history, the legendary rock band will...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bringing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees to life, Guitar Hero® Van Halen® hits retail shelves nationwide today delivering players a unique way to experience the energy, attitude and music from one the most accomplished bands in the world. With 25 of Van Halen's greatest hits from "Jump" to "Panama" and three of Eddie Van Halen's most epic guitar solos, coupled with rockin' anthems from a host of...
Guitarist Eddie Van Halen of the U.S. rock group Van Halen says he is recuperating from surgery he underwent for pain in his left hand. The 54-year-old rocker said he was forced to seek medical attention for his hand after slight pain he noticed during a recent Van Halen tour turned into something much worse, Rolling Stone magazine reported Thursday. During the last leg of our tour, I started developing pain in my thumb and my pinky. I didn't think much of it at the time, Van Halen said. It...
By Michele Gershberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp. and its former morning radio star Howard Stern have settled a bitter breach-of-contract lawsuit over the shock jock's defection to a rival satellite radio service, the two sides said on Friday. Stern, a fixture of morning FM drive time for decades and one of CBS Radio's biggest assets before jumping to Sirius Satellite Radio in January, came away from the settlement achieving one of his long-sought goals. As part of the deal, Stern...
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Reuniting the original Van Halen lineup is just a matter of time, according to former vocalist David Lee Roth. "I talked to the drummer (Alex Van Halen) about a week ago," the band's former lead singer told the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. "And I think, eventually, the inevitable will happen." "It definitely won't be rockers with walkers," he added, seemingly indicating that a reunion is in the near, as opposed to distant, future. "Getting onstage and singing...
By Georg Szalai and Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Taking a page out of the playbook of satellite radio companies, Viacom Inc.'s Infinity Broadcasting radio unit Tuesday unveiled a free-spirited new talk-radio format and a group of personalities as replacements for Sirius-bound shock jock Howard Stern, including former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth and comic Adam Carolla. Also as part of the broad-based replacement strategy, ABC late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc.'s Infinity Broadcasting will call on David Lee Roth, the former lead singer of Van Halen, as well as comedians Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel to replace departing radio shock jock Howard Stern, it said on Tuesday. The announcement comes less than two months before Stern's final broadcast on Infinity, which broadcasts the popular and controversial radio program on 27 of its radio stations across the country. Stern is set to join Sirius Satellite Radio...
By Chuck Taylor and Paul Heine NEW YORK (Billboard) - Infinity Broadcasting isn't commenting on an online report penned by a former Howard Stern Show regular that suggests David Lee Roth will be one of the personalities that ultimately replaces the ribald DJ on the airwaves. Chaunce Hayden, a gossip and celebrity writer for New York/New Jersey entertainment guide SteppinOutMagazine.com, writes that "an Infinity source has confirmed the signing." In February, the Securities and Exchange...
