The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true ... they were either already successfully established hard-rock acts before this time and went for some easy money or were ...

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 ...

The 1970s were a golden age for rock; a time when groundbreaking bands carved their place in music ... a new sound began to dominate the airwaves: hair metal. With its infectious hooks, over ...

Critics coined the term “hair metal” as a shorthand dismissal of the countless copycat hard rock bands that cluttered the Sunset Strip and ruled the airwaves throughout much of the ’80s.

The conventional wisdom of the grunge revolution goes like this: Spandex-clad hair bands ... way for many bands. See these examples and others in UCR's list of 10 Rock and Metal Artists ...

Characterized by pop sensibilities intertwined with emphatic guitar riffage, hair metal was the overwhelming rock style of the decade. The genre brought with it a cavalcade of new bands ...