Van Halen Reveals New Album Art

[JerseyGirl]

LINK: Van Halen Reveal Album Art, Release Date on New Year's Eve Times Square Billboard - The Hollywood Reporter

The iconic rock band, newly signed to Interscope Records, took advantage of a global viewing audience of one billion to debut the cover to their forthcoming release.

The first public reveal of Van Halen's highly anticipated new album took place in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve.

Artwork for the forthcoming release was projected on a giant LED billboard above the McDonald's at 46th St. and 7th Ave. and could clearly be seen at various points throughout the night, as several networks, including CNN, ABC and NBC, were broadcasting live. It was especially visible during Justin Bieber's performance of the Beatles' "Let It Be" on Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve.

[ComaDivine]

Houston? We have a problem....

[JerseyGirl]

Oh wow! That's too funny! Maybe the reports are wrong?

[ComaDivine]

Oh wow! That's too funny! Maybe the reports are wrong?

They paid big-time money to flash it on a Time Square billboard on New Year's Eve. I'm betting that's the cover.

[beebopper]

Houston? We have a problem....

Really? They couldn't come up with something original? LMFAO!

[SparkieD]

Well, it isn't original for the Commodores, either. And another little FYI-that pic is based on the album art. The most important thing here is that VAN mother-effin' HALEN is BACK!!!!!

Here. Educate yourselves

http://www.dieselpunks.org/profiles/...ne-29-dreyfuss

[Diamondjimi]

Hell yeah.
Back again to lower the Van Hagar coffin in it's final resting place!

I'm thinkin road trip Sparks!!!!

[SparkieD]

Hell yeah.
Back again to lower the Van Hagar coffin in it's final resting place!

I'm thinkin road trip Sparks!!!!

Now THAT would be cool as hell.

[DrMaddVibe]

Van Halen to Perform at New York's Cafe Wha? This Thursday
Band expected to debut new single sometime this month

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By ANDY GREENE
January 2, 2012 7:55 PM ET

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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.

The 250-seat Cafe Wha? may seem like an unlikely place for Van Halen to launch their new tour, but the club has an important family connection to David Lee Roth. His uncle Manny Roth owned and operated the venue, providing a stage to then-up-and-coming acts such as Jimi Hendrix, Bill Cosby, Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor and many others.

While the Van Halen camp has been extremely quiet about the band's plans for 2012, they recently put up a giant billboard in Times Square and teaser footage showing the band rehearsing at the Roxy. They have also given the fansite VHLinks two exclusive videos of the band reminiscing about Eddie Van Halen's old Volvo and judging wet T-shirt contests back in the Seventies. The site also says that a "trusted source" tells them the band has been "busy booking rehearsal space and hotel rooms for the band and their crew for [this] week in NYC."

Check out the image of the band's Times Square billboard below.



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz1iOvJ1IQD

[ComaDivine]

[ComaDivine]

Van Halen’s new single, “Tattoo,” will be released on Tuesday, January 10, finally giving fans their first taste of new music with David Lee Roth since the two new tracks on the Best of Van Halen, Volume 1 compilation in 1996.

The Van Halen News Desk site has exclusively revealed that the new album will be released on February 7. The title is still a secret.

VHND also reveals that the first show of Van Halen’s forthcoming tour will be in Louisville, Kentucky, in February. The full list of tour dates will be released very soon – some time between now and when the shows go on sale on January 10.

Meanwhile Van Halen will perform for media at Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village, New York, on Thursday, running through a 45-minute set, their first public performance since the end of their 2007-08 reunion tour with Roth.


http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyl...gle-0104-2012/

[JerseyGirl]

HAS VAN HALEN’S NEW ALBUM TITLE BEEN REVEALED?


Van Halen have been rehearsing for their 2012 tour for months, and tonight (Jan. 5) some lucky folks will get a first listen to songs from their new album — rumored to be called ‘A Different Kind of Truth’ — at the Cafe Wha? in New York City. Eddie, Alex, Wolfgang and David Lee Roth will perform a 45-minute set at the 250 seat club.

Melodic Rock reports they’ve been told about the new album title name, and says that on Friday (Jan. 6) a press release will be issued with the first dates of the band’s 2012 tour. So far, a Feb. 18 show in Louisville, Ken. is the only specific rumored date, but stops at Madison Square Gardens and a venue in Montreal are also said to be on the calendar. As reported earlier, tickets for all shows go on sale next Tuesday, Jan. 10.

As for tonight’s showcase, Melodic Rock reports that the setlist will include ‘Running With the Devil,’ ‘Dance the Night Away’ and a song from the new album, set to be released on Feb. 7. Promotional videos at Van Halen’s official website have also included ‘Jump,’ ‘Hot For Teacher’ and ‘Panama,’ albeit in studio versions.

LINK: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/van-h...w-album-title/

[ComaDivine]

Hey, the Cafe Wha? gig was tonight. I wonder if the band's still together?

edit:

Well, according to setlist.fm, here's what they played:

You Really Got Me
Running With The Devil
Somebody Get Me A Doctor
Everybody Wants Some!
She's The Woman
Dance The Night Away
Panama
Hot For Teacher
Ice Cream Man
Ain't Talkin 'Bout Love
Jump

w/

Beautiful Girls
Unchained

as encores.

Now, I'm not a VH historian by any means, but I heard they were to introduce a new song tonight. She's The Woman's a new one on me, but wiki shows they played it once in Cali back in '76.

[JerseyGirl]

VAN HALEN DEBUTS NEW SONG ‘SHE’S THE WOMAN’ AT INTIMATE NEW YORK CITY CONCERT



Van Halen re-emerged from a long hiatus with a short, sweaty and generally fantastic concert at a small club in New York City tonight (Jan. 5). They also premiered a brand-new and extremely catchy song, ‘She’s the Woman,’ halfway through their set.

Frontman David Lee Roth was charmingly nervous and excited throughout the show at the tiny Cafe Wha?, which used to be owned by his now 92-year-old Uncle Manny. After blistering set-opening performances of ‘You Really Got Me’ and ‘Runnin’ with the Devil,’ he launched into a winding, directionless story about being a paramedic in New York and sharing half a cupcake with some family on New Year’s Eve. This eventually prompted both Wolfgang and Eddie Van Halen to musically nudge him into the next song, ‘Somebody Get Me a Doctor.’ Which smoked.

After a typically but never boringly dynamic ‘Everybody Wants Some’ came the real moment of truth for the evening – Van Halen debuted a new song. It was called ‘She’s the Woman,’ and.. it was really good at the very least. We’ll reserve judgement because the proximity to our childhood heroes and the open bar and the excitement of the moment probably left us biased. But there’s no way on earth it sucked and while it was playing we could not possibly have been happier.

After that, things got even more up close and personal, with Roth mashing up classic rock heroes by performing a bit of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ as he imagined Jim Morrison would sing it during ‘Dance the Night Away,’ recounting his own personal history with the venue during the opening of ‘Ice Cream Man,’ and urging the crowd to pretend the band left and returned from the confined, tiny stage before the inevitable set closer ‘Jump.’

If you’re looking for someone to say this was anything less than the best place on the entire planet Earth to be this evening, you might wanna fish in some other pond.

LINK: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/van-h...oncert-review/

[DrMaddVibe]

Reformed Van Halen performs intimate NYC gig
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | AP – 4 hrs ago



Van Halen members Eddie Van Halen, right, and David Lee Roth perform at Cafe Wha? …

NEW YORK (AP) — They'll be playing arenas when they tour next month, but on Thursday night, a regrouped Van Halen provided thrills in a tiny club where a VIP crowd stood elbow to elbow as the storied band played some of their greatest hits including "Jump" and "Panama."

"Welcome to Occupy Van Halen, ladies and gentleman!" frontman David Lee Roth yelled just before the band launched into "You Really Got Me," the first in an approximately hour-long, high energy set.

The show was at the famed Café Wha? in New York's West Village — a club owned by Manny Roth, the uncle of Roth.

David Lee Roth noted some of the greats that played in the club — including Bob Dylan — and told the crowd, "I'm more nervous about this gig than I would ever be in the Garden," referring to Madison Square Garden.

The band will soon be playing the Garden and other venues like it, as they kick off a nationwide tour next month. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers start the tour in Louisville, Ky., on Feb. 16, and will tour through June, hitting cities like Boston, Atlanta and Chicago. They'll also be promoting a new album: The group announced Wednesday that they'll release "A Different Kind of Truth" on Feb. 7, the group's first album with Roth since their celebrated album "1984," released that same year.



Van Halen has gone through plenty of changes since then. Roth left the band for a solo career and was replaced with Sammy Hagar in a messy breakup; he later returned to the band as Hagar exited in a split that had just as much discord. There would be more turmoil as bassist Michael Anthony was replaced a few years ago with Wolfgang Van Halen, the son of guitar great Eddie Van Halen.



But it was all smiles on Wednesday, as father and son, along with Eddie's brother and drummer Alex were all on hand as the reconstituted group played a warm-up of sorts before their nationwide tour, their first together in almost four years.



"This has been a really long time coming," Roth told the audience.

The band hardly seemed rusty. Though his mic was weak, Roth's voice wasn't, as his signature screech was in top form, as was Eddie Van Halen's scorching guitar play on songs like "Hot for Teacher" and "Dance the Night Away."

Roth joked about the small size of the club: "The last time I stood on a stage this low, I had to get the car home by midnight."

Later, he talked about how he used to wander through the club as a kid, dreaming of a chance to play on its stage.

"It took us 50 years to get this gig. It was easier to get in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame than to get this gig," he said.
Roth's uncle Manny, now 92, was in the audience, sitting next to John McEnroe, one of several luminaries in the crowd.
"It's come full circle," said a beaming David Lee Roth amid the audience's cheers.
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www.van-halen.com
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Nekesa Mumbi Moody is the AP's music editor. Follow her at http://www.twitter.com/nekesamumbi

[SparkieD]

"She's the Woman" is from an old demo of theirs. I had actually been listening to that demo early yesterday. Great tune made even better.

Mikey? Who the f is that? Wolfie is kicking all kinds of ass!

I cannot wait 'til April!!!!!

Hey MaddVibe. That dude in red by the stage-that's WARF!!!

[DrMaddVibe]

Hey MaddVibe. That dude in red by the stage-that's WARF!!!

Git da fuck outta here...fer real?

Figures!

He made me laugh.

[SparkieD]

Git da fuck outta here...fer real?

Figures!

He made me laugh.

He's one funny dude for sure!

[ComaDivine]

Here's your tracklist and about 30 seconds of "Tattoo". Hurry! Before it's mysteriously removed.

http://www.bravewords.com/news/175555

Oh and a pretty decent "YRGM/RWTD" from Cafe Wha?

[SparkieD]

Hey, MV, listen to WARF keepin' Dave on his toes @ the 5:34 mark