Here are five hair metal bands whose biggest-selling records were definitely not their best. The hair metal era is often remembered for the big hair, the overuse of Aqua Net, flashy videos, and ...

Like any genre, there are many tiers of hair metal bands. Unlike Mötley Crüe and Guns N’ Roses, many hard rock bands from the 1980s disappeared into obscurity after MTV fame. While some have continued ...

When a punk musician named Duff McKagan left Seattle for Los Angeles in 1984, he was surprised by what he found in his adopted city. He encountered countless telephone poles plastered with band flyers ...

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 ...

They had some of rock's biggest hits and hairdos of the mid-1980s, but who could have predicted that Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe and Poison would be behind the Twin Cities' biggest rock concert of 2022?

David Lee Roth called the bands of the ‘80s “hair” era nothing more than imitations of Van Halen, accusing them of resorting to “gimmickry and trade crap” to emulate his group. He argued that Van ...

Two weeks ago, a Cleveland bat boy had a close shave with fame thanks to the Yankees’ controversial hair policy. Now, that buzz has helped his band land their first-ever shows in New York City this ...