Legendary '80s Hair Metal Band Shares Old Concert Footage and People Are Begging for a Time Machine originally appeared on Parade. Ask nearly any Gen Xer and they'll tell you that the mid to late ...

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 ...

For some, the 1980s were about neon and new wave, yacht rock and wine coolers, wide lapels and pristine pop. For others, the decade is remembered as a time to don a battle jacket, throw up the horns, ...

Like every decade, the 1980s were full of fads that were everlasting yet incredibly memorable. Memorable in both a good light and a negative one. Some people look fondly back on the days of leg ...

Here are 10 hair metal music videos that defined 1980s (and very, very early 1990s) pop culture. Big hair. Bigger hooks. Even bigger budgets for fog machines and neon lighting. If there’s one thing ...

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 ...

Guitarist John Sykes, who played with the rock bands Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, has died at 65. He helped compose one of the defining power ballads of the late-1980s hair-metal scene in “Is This Love, ...

Hair metal heroes Twisted Sister are reuniting for a 50th-anniversary world tour in 2026, but longtime bassist Mark “The Animal” Mendoza won’t be joining the celebration, Rolling Stone reports. The ...

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 ...