Mammoth WVH paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with a rendition of his classic “Mama, I’m Coming Home” at a concert Tuesday, hours after the heavy metal legend’s death. “That fucking sucks that we’re in a world that doesn’t have Ozzy Osbourne anymore,” Wolfgang Van Halen said during the band’s gig …
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Multi-instrumentalist Wolfgang Van Halen unleashes some of his most virtuosic guitar parts yet on “The End,” the new single from his one-man band, Wolfgang WVH —which arrives along with an elaborate, Robert Rodriguez-directed video where he plays for an audience packed with vampires, zombies, and, for some reason, Slash. The …
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The Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, will get an all-star tribute at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland on Oct. 19. The recognition marks Osbourne’s second induction into the institution, following Black Sabbath’s entry in 2006. The ceremony will stream live on Disney+, and a …
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Foo Fighters pulled a prank on the Welcome to Rockville crowd Saturday, pretending to play a pair of Van Halen classics… only to reveal Mammoth WVH’s Wolfgang Van Halen was actually performing in the wings. The gag occurred during the headlining set’s usual mid-show medley featuring the music of drummer …
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Six weeks after David Lee Roth released a profanity-laced video that targeted and teased Wolfgang Van Halen, the Mammoth WVH rocker has finally responded to his former band mate’s “This Fuckin’ Kid” clip. Roth’s video, posted seemingly unprovoked in January, also called Wolfgang a “schlemiel” (“fool” in Yiddish), mocked him …
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Van Halen ended as a band with the 2020 passing of guitarist Eddie Van Halen, but tensions between the surviving members appear to be very much alive. Singer David Lee Roth launched a broadside on YouTube Wednesday (Jan. 24) against Eddie’s son, Wolfgang Van Halen, who played bass with the …
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“The one thing I wanted to avoid was the sophomore slump,” says Wolfgang Van Halen — and if anything, his just-released second album as Mammoth WVH, Mammoth II, is a major step up from his impressive 2021 debut. The choruses and riffs are both big enough to match his band …
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Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH returns this summer with their sophomore album Mammoth 2, the first single for which was released Wednesday, “Another Celebration at the End of the World.” “I knew that I wanted the new album to contain elements of what people heard on the debut, but also …
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Mitski released the soaring, melodic Laurel Hell; Bartees Strange jumped genres and blew minds with Farm to Table; Wilco went warm and melodic, if not truly country, with Cruel Country; Wet Leg revived the post-punk revival with their endlessly entertaining self-titled debut, ending up on Glastonbury’s main stage. And those …
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Justin Bieber just recovered from a scary bout of Ramsay Hunt syndrome, and is headed back on the road to finish his Justice tour, starting July 31st in Denmark. Before he had to postpone some of his U.S. arena dates, that run was fully sold out — a somewhat astonishing …
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