While pop music was all the rage in the mid-80s, there were female-fronted classic rock bands who earned No. 1 hit songs in ...

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 ...

If you look backward through the history of rock 'n' roll, you'll find that the ratio of women to men has always been, in a word, unbalanced. At the time of this writing in 2025, less than 10 percent ...

Before the tour buses, leather jackets, and eyeliner, these faces were still showing up in yearbook photos and school pictures, just like everybody else. Back then, there were no arena lights, no ...

Behind every great rock band is a steady and sturdy bassist holding down the low end of things. Rock 'n' roll might be a male-dominated line of work, but that doesn't mean women haven't been a key ...

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 ...