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  Eddie Van Halen Sidelined by Painful-Sounding Colon Surgery

  August 30, 2012 – Eddie Van Halen might not be dancing the night away again until early next year. No more runnin' with the devil for a little while, either. …
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  Do You Love Eddie Van Halen Enough to Wear This Shoe?

  August 14, 2012 – Everyone knows that everyone who's anyone eventually gets their own sneaker line, an honor bestowed upon only those with rabid enough fanbases to scramble for their names on their feet. But often those sneakers are also fugnacious, almost as if their celebrity endorsers are daring you to let them know how dedicated you are: how much do you love them? Enough to wear this ugly-ass shoe? Really though? …
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  Husker Dupe: A Recent History of Rock Logo Swagger Jacking

  July 11, 2012 – Earlier this year, Disney was shilling T-shirts with Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures cover in the shape of Mickey Mouse's face. …
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  Van Halen Dispel Super Bowl Rumor While Lobbying for Halftime Gig in Open Letter

  July 9, 2012 – Super Bowl XLVII may be a whole seven months away, but music and sports fans alike can always go for a good halftime show rumor — especially one with a good sense of humor. This year's first whisper was that the tired dudes of Van Halen would be playing the headlining spot on the floor of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on February 3, 2013. …
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  Black Keys Sue Home Depot, Pizza Hut for Using Songs in Ads

  June 22, 2012 – The Black Keys owe a lot of their recent explosion into superstardom to the omnipresence of their music in commercials like this one for this beer brand and this one for this cell phone, and this one for this car. How much do they love selling out? Just ask them! …
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  Green Day Realize They Are Not Really the 99 Percent

  June 20, 2012 – One of the tougher things about being a successful punk rock band, Green Day have discovered, is realizing you might be a bit too successful to join the proletariat uprising that got you that way. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Billie Joe Armstrong (somewhat uncomfortably) explains that, while songs on their upcoming album trilogy, like a pair called "99 Revolutions" (hi, Macca!) and "Kill the DJ" (what's up, Morrissey?) were i …
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  Watch David Lee Roth and His Dog Explain Van Halen Are Tired

  May 21, 2012 – Following the mysterious disappearance of 30-plus North American dates on Van Halen's summer tour last week, the band's mouthpiece David Lee Roth has stepped up with an explanation. …
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  Van Halen Yank 30-Plus Tour Dates With No Explanation

  May 18, 2012 – Van Halen seem to have postponed 30 of their North American tour dates scheduled from early July till late September. …
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  Van Halen, 'A Different Kind of Truth' (Interscope)

  February 7, 2012 – I was 13 in 1984. More to the point, I was 13 during 1984. It's hard to overstate the impact of Van Halen being the biggest band on the planet at that critical moment of an impressionable suburban adolescent's cognitive and social development. …
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  Fair Warning: The Best and Worst Moments on Van Halen's 7 David Lee Roth Records

  February 6, 2012 – Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. Consciously or instinctively, they understood that virtuoso mastery on instruments feels a whole lot less like work to listeners when you have a high-IQ stand-up comedian spouting lecherous asides during the bridges. And they also knew that eccentric noise goes down easier when it's got giant hooks and fun in the sun. …
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