"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 ...

The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty pleasures in music history. The hair spray, makeup, and catchy pop tunes touched up with distortion were made for MTV. Though ...

When grunge exploded in the early '90s, it left the '80s hair metal scene in the dust — but the best grunge song by these ...

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 ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is no stranger to criticism, and one of the most common complaints about the institution is its woeful lack of metal representation. That's not a radical stance to take.

I came of age at a very weird time in music history. Basically, when I entered high school, guys had long hair, ripped jeans, earrings, and terrible, terrible taste in music, but by the time I’d left ...

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 ...

If you are either a woman or a person who buys beauty and hygiene products designed for women, you're probably familiar with what's known as the "Pink Tax." According to USA Today: "The Pink Tax, so ...

Hair metal is a divisive subgenre, even down to the name of the style of music it’s most known as. Whatever you want to call ...