"Hair metal" is not an actual genre. You know it, we know it and the myriad bands that got unfairly lumped into the category know it. That said, the pejorative phrase serves a purpose here. Critics ...

Here's five hair metal bands who haven't reunited in 20-plus years... but should! Let’s face it — no genre took the phrase “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll” more seriously (or sprayed more Aqua Net) ...

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. Though ...

The 1980s hair-band era was an explosion of glam, big hooks, shredding guitar solos, and sky-high hairstyles. While many groups faded as musical trends shifted, several iconic bands never stopped ...

Even if the mark of being called “hair metal” or “glam metal” is one that many bands coming out in the 1980s wanted to wash away like the Aqua Net freezing up their locks, it was one most couldn’t ...