As the Pasadena hard rock band Van Halen, whose co-founder Eddie Van Halen died Tuesday, was making the leap from neighborhood backyards to stages up and down Sunset Boulevard in the mid-1970s, its ...

Visitors to the Beverly Hills home office of Gene Simmons have often been treated to the KISS frontman pressing play on a favorite musical artifact: a cassette copy of demo recordings he produced in ...

With Van Halen's final single, 2012's "She's the Woman," the band finished where it started. The thumping rock song was first recorded by the group back in November 1976, more than a year before the ...

Paul Stanley admitted that he and Kiss manager Bill Aucoin shot down working with Van Halen in 1976 to “pull the reins in” on Gene Simmons. The Kiss frontman reveals in Paul Brannigan’s upcoming Eddie ...

Before they were playing arenas and stadiums around the world, Van Halen was rocking bars in Pomona and San Bernardino. That was in 1976, four years after the band formed in Pasadena and two years ...

Few early MTV videos captured the personality of a band better than Van Halen's "Jump." In the effervescent 1984 clip, David Lee Roth primps his hair and shoots smoldering looks directly at the camera ...