From the early '80s to the early '90s, Motley Crue defined the hard rock and "glam metal" that burst forth from the Los Angeles club scene. A little dark and definitely crazy, Motley Crue changed the ...

Hüsker Dü’s “Flip Your Wig” isn’t so much a song as a status update from a world before social media. The excitable opening track from the namesake 1985 album is an on-t ...

These 1980s songs failed to reach No. 1, but they ended up just as popular (if not more so) than the songs that blocked them.

Like so much rock ‘n’ roll from the earliest and most formative years, Southern rock took a little bit from here and a little ...

A late 1980s, early ‘90s music group is making a comeback. Grammy-winning new jack swing pioneer Teddy Riley announced that ...

We’ve had a lot of discussion in columns over the last several months on the true power of 50,000-watt AM radio stations back ...

Although the first weekend of November brought some holiday events, mid-November is when things really kick into high gear, ...

There was an age not too long ago when scene compilation albums were a vital part of consuming underground music. In a ...

Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' climbs to No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, the first artist to achieve top 10 placements across six decades.

These are the tunes members of Generation X partied to and listened to while driving the loop in innumerable towns. They made out to these songs.

Everyone has had those moments when they hear a song playing and say, “Oh yeah, this used to be my song!” That moment takes you back to the memories tied to that song, whether it’s a friendship, a ...