Ah, hair metal. Where would the 1980s be without you? The genre is one of the strangest in recent memory, a mixture of head-banging and glam. Tough guys with sleeveless shirts and feathery blow-dried ...

Hair metal is often remembered for its larger-than-life style. Between the big hair, flashy clothes, and high-energy anthems about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, the genre wasn’t taken very seriously.

Both Def Leppard and Guns N’ Roses were still one year away from glam metal masterpieces. But 1986 was a crucial year for making hair metal something impossible to escape. So here are three songs you ...

As hair metal — or glam metal, or pop-metal, or whatever you want to call it — became the predominant rock subgenre conquering the airwaves, artists and producers alike found that they could multiply ...

Hair metal — that dreaded colloquialism for the commercial, party-hearty hard rock that dominated the airwaves in the ’80s — ...

You’re probably reading this list of the Top 20 Hair Metal Guitar Solos for one of two reasons. You might be an ’80s hard ...