The ability to summon up emotion in your audience is crucial for a performer. If you can’t get them excited, sad, happy—if you can’t get them to feel something and even express something—then you’re ...

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 ...

These 80s rock bands were pretty hyped up back in the day. Sadly, they didn’t last (or get quite as big) as some fans thought they would. Let’s take a look at a few fallen soldiers from the 80s, shall ...

Before we can dive into bands who are wrongly labeled hair metal, we must ask ourselves: what exactly defines hair metal? Is it the teased hair? The extravagant stage garb and makeup? Songs about ...

These five '80s rock and metal guitarists who started great new bands serve as an unfortunate reminder that previous success and loads of talent don't guarantee future prosperity. That doesn't mean we ...

Author Tanya Pearson, who’s also the founder of the Women of Rock Oral History Project, realized that if she wanted first-person accounts from that era, she’d have to record them herself Before Tanya ...