Before grunge scrubbed the smeared makeup off of the face of hair metal and trimmed its flowing locks, an endless parade of longhaired dudes did their level best to destroy the ozone layer, fueled by ...

Timmy called in from Jersey City this morning to offer his theory on why the Knicks, despite their paltry record, continue to sell out Madison Square Garden. After dismissing Timmy's take, the ...

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 ...

They were gaudy. They were loud — in all senses of the word. And 20 years ago, they were pretty much inescapable. Who were “they?” They were the “hair bands” of the 1980s that dominated MTV, filled ...

The term "hair band" evokes a visceral response from almost anyone who lived through the 1980s. To some, they were hokey, overprocessed fluff bands that cared more about how they looked than ...

It’s easy to make fun of ‘80s hair metal. The clothes were ridiculous. The posing and posturing were ludicrous. The cliched ballads detailing how tough it was living on the road with your “baby” back ...

It’s easier to make sense of history by placing events into clean boxes. For example, the day Nirvana dropped “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, a bunch of hair metal bands lost their record deals. Grunge and ...

It was the time when rock anthems dominated the airwaves and where bands used more hair product per rock arena performance than a national hair dressing salon chain would use in a month. The North ...

Bon Jovi is one of the longest-running and most commercially and financially successful rock bands out there. From their start as the quintessential 1980s "hair band" to their mid-90s reinvention to ...