A once popular feature on 101.5 WPDH, Poughkeepsie, New York's Home of Rock n Roll, the Big Hair Scare returns on Thursday, ...

A look at how Guns N' Roses never released a good song after their debut album, but one song above all stands as the nadir of ...

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 ...

Richie Kotzen has revealed that he almost joined Nine Inch Nails, but the opportunity was cruelly taken away when his glam metal past caught up with him. "The closest band that I ever came to joining ...

Break out the Aqua Net and lock up your daughters. That was the mantra throughout the 1980s, when leather-clad rockers with hair teased skyward, sex appeal gushing and guitar solos screaming, prowled ...

Tesla bassist Brian Wheat has formed a new supergroup called Terminal, featuring ex-Tesla guitarist Tommy Skeoch, ex- W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes and ex- Saliva singer Josey Scott. Wheat shared ...

“Rocket” began with an African drum pattern inspired by “Burundi Black” by French pianist and composer Michel Bernholc. (Bernholc used the pseudonym Mike Steiphenson, though “Burundi Black” is ...

As hair metal — or glam metal, or pop-metal, or whatever you want to call it — became the predominant rock subgenre conquering the airwaves, artists and producers alike found that they could multiply ...

"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 ...