As the 1970s gave way to the 1980s, Western culture underwent a rapid change. Music tastes shifted and surrendered to hard, ...

If somewhere in the cosmos there’s a heavy metal god wearing biker gear, controlling earthly events with a Flying V, the year 1980 must have been important to the long-haired deity. Before social ...

One of punk's more unique backstories is that of Verböten, who, barely in their teens, emerged from Chicago in 1982, waiting ...

The real beauty of punk rock, from its inception onwards ... both started gigging in the early 1980s shortly before releasing debut singles and both have, over the years, cemented reputations ...

Many albums from 1980 forever changed rock guitar. Here’s a look at three differing styles that helped inspire the legends that followed them.

and set about making music that may have started out in the three-chord thrash of punk and quickly moved into darker sounds, developing the monochrome poise of what became known as post-punk.

The real beauty of punk rock, from its inception onwards ... both started gigging in the early 1980s shortly before releasing debut singles and both have, over the years, cemented reputations ...

When Steve McDonald was 13, he was kidnapped by a woman who said he impregnated her. Learn the whole story March 2 at the ...

Since the 1970s, a large and influential counterculture has taken sections of society by storm. Starting with underground ...

David Johansen, frontman of New York Dolls and also known as Buster Poindexter, died at 75. He battled stage 4 cancer, as ...