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 ...

To find these records, Goldmine looked to a pool of albums from 1978 to 1982, across a pile of genres, and often kicking off ...

Gavin Heaney I brought my trusty, rusty beach chair to BeachLife this year. As I flipped my old fold-out, I realized there’s ...

Ollie Olsen, the beloved rock/electronic musician, has died, according to an official statement shared to his Facebook ...

One of the best things about the ’80s? Weirdness became very, very cool. From Boy George to Prince to Cyndi Lauper and Weird ...

Stryper at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on January 3, 1987 was my first concert. After living under the fundamentalist ...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, New Order, the Go-Go’s and a reunion of ‘Til Tuesday are among the acts atop the lineup for ...

On the release of a new documentary telling the story of Scotland's overlooked girl bands, Claire Sawers explores how ...

The Psychedelic Furs. // photo by Nick Spacek The Psychedelic Furs with the Jesus & Mary Chain and Frankie Rose Uptown ...

The Courant’s arts picks for Oct. 20-26 include Halloween-themed theater productions, ’80s and ’90s hitmakers and a spate of ...

Taking care of my momma takes boocoos of time. I feel like Dorothy Zbornak in the ‘80s television sitcom The Golden Girls ...

Four years ago, almost to the day, Minnesotans were digging out of record-snowfall — a stark difference to the forecasted ...