NEW YORK TIMES: As news briefings go, it rocked. On Thursday night Van Halen took to the stage of the venerable Cafe Wha? on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village, capacity 250. “Last time I stood on a stage this low, we had to have the car back by midnight,” said the singer David Lee Roth. The objective was to prove that Van Halen is alive and amicable for an arena tour that starts on Feb. 18 in Louisville, Ky., after the Feb. 7 release of a new album, “A Different Kind of Truth.” It’s to be Van Halen’s first full […]