Before we can dive into bands who are wrongly labeled hair metal, we must ask ourselves: what exactly defines hair metal? Is it the teased hair? The extravagant stage garb and makeup? Songs about ...

Here are five hair metal bands that sadly lost their iconic lineup over the decades. A band's lineup can become just as important as the music itself. We've seen this tenfold over the years with some ...

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 ...

When a punk musician named Duff McKagan left Seattle for Los Angeles in 1984, he was surprised by what he found in his adopted city. He encountered countless telephone poles plastered with band flyers ...

Ask nearly any Gen Xer and they'll tell you that the mid to late '80's and early '90s were truly a time to be alive as a teen. Their style? Impeccable. The TV shows? Iconic. And the music? Well, some ...

You smell that? That Aquanet scent? That means a hair metal band is nearby. (Be very quiet. If we disturb them, they might accidentally ruin their eyeliner.) The ’80s were a fascinating time for the ...

Sometimes the best songs written for an album inexplicably don’t make the final cut — take our list of the best non-album song from six big hair metal bands as proof. There are often a lot of people ...

In a recent interview with LifeMinute, RATT singer Stephen Pearcy once again offered his opinion of the label "hair metal," the pejorative term which was coined in the late 1990s as a way to disparage ...

In a new interview with Dennis Wood of WOKW 102.9 FM's "Back To The 80s", RATT singer Stephen Pearcy was asked what he thinks it was about the 1980s that made that era so magical. Pearcy said (as ...

Maybe after this we can hit the bar, and I can ask him why he wrote that song about 17-year-olds, and we can laugh about how bad hair-metal bands used to dress. Kip was coming closer, giving two ...