If you think it was easy to pick the best album by 11 legendary hair metal bands, you haven't listened to enough hair metal. Although many critics dismissed the genre as lightweight fluff, there's no ...

Our picks for the Heaviest Song by 11 Big Hair Metal Bands proves that the genre, which relied so heavily on simple pop sensibilities, packed a harder punch than its detractors were willing to admit.

Cinderella always felt like a different kind of hair metal band. On the album cover for Night Songs, Tom Keifer and his band encapsulate the look of the era. However, they also collaborated with ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is no stranger to criticism, and one of the most common complaints about the institution is its woeful lack of metal representation. That's not a radical stance to take.

Hair metal is a funny way to describe a music scene. Plenty of bands not associated with 80s glam metal have (or had) great hair. From The Beatles to Oasis, Led Zeppelin to Soundgarden, rock and roll ...