The best rock songs of the ’80s made their prospective bands household names and solidified those bands’ careers for years to come. If one were to really pick one decade to define hard rock and show when rock ruled the airwaves, it would be the ’80s, thanks to blockbuster songs that ...
Over 900 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...
From house to hip-hop, college rock to techno, bubblegum pop to post-punk, heavy metal to hardcore—here are our favorite tracks of the 1980s.
For the earliest generation of rock bands, making records required a modicum of professional ambition. You had to sign with a label, tour, submit to a producer. But punk’s rising DIY tide lifted many misfit boats, securing the decidedly fame-averse Swell Maps an audience outside their nati...
of his life. “I can clear a pub when I want to. It’s a talent.”“New Big Prinz” is a stomp full of glam-rock guitars and hand claps, with his California bride Brix Smith adding her pop smarts. He barks, “Check the record, check the record, check the guy’s track record!
Tapping into the punk rock bands of the late ’90s and early 2000s when the first games were released (think Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, Evanescence and Rage Against the Machine), many have praised the series' creators Adi Shankar and Alex Larsen for the heavy nostalgia trip that Devil May ...
“Streets of Fire” opens with two key title cards: it’s a “rock & roll fable” (true) and it takes place in “another time, another place” (as if the ‘50s and the ‘80s had a love child set in all of New York City’s boroughs, with a generous streak of Chicago thrown ...
Plenty of artful rock bands fell in love with Fela Kuti andJames Brown, but nobody did more with that influence than Talking Heads in 1980. Remains in Light was not quite rock and not quite funk, but a new invention capped by David Byrne’s endlessly fascinating lyrics. It was also one...
find their strength in stripping down to more simplistic elements. The format has allowed bands to create a sound that stretches far beyond that of just three instruments. From the dawn of rock to the present day, the best power trios have often provided a shot of adrenaline to rock’n’...