This week’s Looking Back section rewinds to the hair band frenzy of the late 1980s. The era was loud with music fueled by ...

But, here’s the thing: just because grunge kicked down the glam metal door with a muddy Doc Marten boot doesn’t mean the hair metal heroes of the 1980s went quietly into the night. Nope! Some of them ...

Here are five hair metal bands whose biggest-selling records were definitely not their best. The hair metal era is often remembered for the big hair, the overuse of Aqua Net, flashy videos, and ...

Boasting big hair, leather pants, and more eyeliner than an emo show, hair bands in the ’80s didn’t just play music — they embodied it. Bands like Mötley Crüe and Guns N’ Roses gave life to a decade ...

Every record label passed on their demo tape, which included a song that would later become an MTV hit. “But our management had an idea,” says Chip Z’Nuff, bassist and cofounder of Chicago-based band ...

It’s no wonder so many hair metal bands recorded great cover songs in their heyday. Many of the bands that exploded in ...

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 ...

In January, the second annual Cliff Jackson Memorial Show at Lincoln Theatre scored a one-off reunion by regional metal band Maxx Warrior as the headliner. On Saturday, just 11 months later, promoter ...