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 ...

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.

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.

There may not be a decade with more diverse music than the 1980s. The era saw a lot of different styles, including the popularity of rock music by so-called hair bands, named that for the long hair ...