Over 800 music fans have voted on the 60+ Best 80s Heavy Metal Bands. Current Top 3: Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath
bands Descendents and ALL. SLC Punk was chosen as the opening-night feature at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Merendino created the film based on his experience growing up in Salt Lake City. Although the film is not autobiographical, Merendino has said that many characters were...
your senses. Dual front men will bring the biggest hits from the widest variety of artists and bands to the stage. While ordinary tributes will play hits from one band or artist, Mixtape – 80s Tribute Band will keep you on your feet all night...
Stacker scoured Billboard charts from the '80s and chose 25 of the top bands whose music became the soundtrack of the decade.
There is a depressing musical alternate universe where significant bands are doomed to wait, sometimes forever, for the recognition they deserve. If you follow this blog, you know that a big pet peeve of mine is whySLAVE To The SQUAREwavehas yet to break through after 25 hard years and inc...
and went on to sell over two million copies in the US. The band went on a touring spree that year putting on over 200 shows with bands such as Cheap Trick, ZZ Top, Kansas and Def Leppard. Their debut single, “Turn Me Loose“, went on to hit No. 7 on the Canadian charts and ...
By 1985, Talking Heads had already cemented their status as one of the most innovative bands of the new wave era. ButLittle Creaturessaw them take a slightly different approach—embracing a more accessible, melodic sound while still maintaining their signature quirkiness and artistic edge. The res...
even at their most ambitious. But few bands created a sound so regal, so triumphant — especially when they roped in the orchestrations on classic tracks like “Grand Hotel” and “A Salty Dog.”“I don’t think Procol has ever fit into a particular pigeonhole, as we call them here, ...
Dangerous Darren & 80s Hair Band Rock Now Playing 6 hrs 40 years in radio, 20 of those years on SiriusXM’s Hair Nation. A California kid, Darren moved south to Los Angeles in the mid-80s living on the Sunset Strip. Seeing and partying with the very bands you hear on Hair Nation. ...
Metallica were on their way to becoming one of the biggest bands on the planet after they releasedMaster of Puppetsin March of 1986. But that September, while they were on tour in Europe in support of the record with Anthrax, bassist Cliff Burton was killed when their bus crashed. He was...