So, in our first “Into the Mailbag” we look at a comment from Angus B on our piece about metal bands that got lumped in with ...

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.

People talk about how Pantera started out playing glam metal, but it seems like nobody ever mentions that Alice in Chains did as well: they were originally called Alice N’ Chains, which was an obvious ...