Our picks for the Heaviest Song by 11 Big Hair Metal Bands proves the subgenre packed a harder punch than its detractors were ...

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.

Critics coined the term “hair metal” as a shorthand dismissal of the countless copycat hard rock bands that cluttered the Sunset Strip and ruled the airwaves throughout much of the ’80s ...

This all changed in 1989 when Coop teamed up with Bon Jovi and Aerosmith hit doctor Desmond Child to conquer hair metal with ...

Our list of the Best Hair Metal Album of Every Year From 1981 to 1991 proves that before it was relegated to the dustbin of ...

Hopefully these nods to some of the era's biggest and brightest bands helped legitimize hair metal in the eyes of the critical establishment and will pave the way for similar inductions in the future.

Pull out those tights from your closet and grab your Aqua Net, The Hairband Experience is coming to Columbus. The heavy-metal ...

Think hair metal and glam rock are dead? Think again. The genres are thriving, mainly in Europe, but also globally. Here is a non-comprehensive list of some modern bands that sound like 80s hair ...

From the Deciblog archives, dredged up via vintage Metal Sludge: Rivers Cuomo — or, um, should I say “Peter Kitts,” above right — used to be in a shred-tastic, poofy-haired spandex band called Avant ...