Heavy music was at war with itself in 1985 — and from the conflict emerged a slew of groundbreaking albums from one of hard rock and metal's most consequential years. Our list of the Top 20 Hard Rock ...

Hüsker Dü’s “Flip Your Wig” isn’t so much a song as a status update from a world before social media. The excitable opening ...

Were the '80s really the greatest decade ever in music? We posit that question on the back cover of our new book, 501 Essential Albums of the 80s (Motorbooks/Quarto Group), and certainly that case ...

For many elder Millennials and Gen-Xers, thinking of the 1990s conjures up a time that was only a decade ago. However, that’s not the case. No, my fellow longtime adults, that golden era was three ...