The 1980s delivered a unique, vibrant, and often extravagant musical landscape that defined an entire generation.

The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty pleasures in the history of music. The hair spray, ...

Nostalgia can be a big draw especially when it comes to music, and one of the mainstays on the tribute circuit is Hairbanger’s Ball. The 1980s hair rock tribute performs more than 150 shows a year.

The 1980s hair metal scene has already received a definitive documentary account courtesy of Penelope Spheeris’ The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, and Nöthin' But a Good ...

If you think it was easy to pick the best album by 11 legendary hair metal bands, you haven't listened to enough hair metal. Although many critics dismissed the genre as lightweight fluff, there's no ...

Here are 10 essential rock and metal ’80s albums you should own on vinyl. The ’80s were a really interesting time in heavy music because that was when rock and metal really started splintering off ...

Here are five hair metal bands who only got to release one album. We can all envision the rock and roll culture of the 1980s: Los Angeles was packed, MTV was blasting power ballads on repeat, and ...

"Hair metal" is not an actual genre. You know it, we know it and the myriad bands that got unfairly lumped into the category know it. That said, the pejorative phrase serves a purpose here. Critics ...

If you were to visit Louisiana Lagniappe's (9990 Perkins Road) kitchen at the end of the night, chances are you'll hear the sounds of a 1980s hair band flowing through the sound system. That's chef ...

Anyone around in the 80s probably knows Tesla as a large force in the rock scene at the time. The Sacramento band had quite a few hits back in the day, the most notable being Love Song, which reached ...