The 1980s were a time of experimentation and excess that saw the birth of hair metal, thrash metal, alternative rock, new wave, and other new genres. Solo artists and pop excluded, here are the 20 ...

Hail! Rock and Roll! It was the same theater that turned him away as a child because he was Black. See An Exploration of Smithsonian Collections Featuring African American Music from Smithsonian Music ...

Guns N’ Roses came at exactly the right time in rock ‘n’ roll. For the better part of the ‘80s, rock music had become bloated, stagnate and full of itself. Still reeling from the disco and ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota -- Bob “Slim” Dunlap, a guitarist best known for his work with rock band The Replacements ... re just beautiful rock ‘n’ roll records. I found them to be deeply ...

Consequently, Dave received 16 to 17 stitches and The Kinks were then black-balled from the ongoing rock ‘n’ roll British invasion. The alleged altercation nearly folded the band and deterred ...

Singer Axl Rose emerged with Guns N' Roses just when rock needed him, with late-'80s music dominated by safe ... When the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, the ...

The Rolling Stones began calling themselves the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" in the late Sixties ... Now into their 80s, and even in the wake of Watts’ death in 2021, the Rolling Stones ...