Van Halen formed in 1972, and since then, they have blessed rock music with classic rock hits, from original songs to covers.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Van Halen released some superb LPs while David Lee Roth was in the band. These four album-openers from that era still bring the thunder.

As Alex Van Halen told Rolling Stone last fall, a tour reuniting the drummer and David Lee Roth didn’t come to fruition after Eddie Van Halen’s death in 2020. But at the M3 Rock Festival in Columbia, ...