Discover What’s Streaming On: Big hair and big hooks, power chords and power ballads, leather and spandex, pointy-ass guitars and lyrics that would definitely get you canceled. Despite all this — or ...

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 ...

While few would classify Heart as a hair metal band, they were certainly adjacent to the movement with their sky-high ‘dos and reverb-laden power ballads. At the very least, the 1980s saw the band ...

Break out the Aqua Net and lock up your daughters. That was the mantra throughout the 1980s, when leather-clad rockers with hair teased skyward, sex appeal gushing and guitar solos screaming, prowled ...

Our list of nine great '80s hard rock bands that weren't hair metal is a reminder that the decade had plenty of movers and shakers outside of the glammed-up Sunset Strip scene. Some bands initially ...

Rock 'n' roll fans can relive the glory days of the '80s as Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy, Quiet Riot and Vixen hit the stage Friday at Barton Coliseum during the Arkansas State Fair. The three acts ...

Brad Canfield admits he isn’t much of a metal fan—his tastes tend toward alt-rock, not Mötley Crüe. Though he runs one of the area’s top music venues, Merriweather Post Pavilion, his vibe is pretty ...

In the 1980s, classic rock groups like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and The Who were seen as dinosaurs, and a new sound was spilling out of clubs along LA’s Sunset Strip. It’s known as hair metal — a mix ...

Travis Kennedy has always had a soft spot for ‘80s glam rock and metal bands. As a kid, he recalls turning on MTV and watching these seemingly larger-than-life rock stars – with their teased hair, ...