Grantland’s Chuck Klosterman reviews Van Halen’s 2012 ADKOT show at Cafe Wha? in New York City: “really, truly, absolutely incredible”

[Grantland, January 6, 2012](https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-incredibly-insanely-undeniably-awesome-return-of-van-halen/)

The [New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/van-halen-plays-caf-wha) called the event “deliciously strange” and said “the sound was eerily good, the band confident and firm. If Van Halen is old by rock standards, it has had no effect on their sound.”