Lex Williams is a music writer and film critic, who shares her time between North Carolina and New York City. From a young age, Lex has always had a passion for arts in all its forms, having worked in ...

The 1980s was a singular era in rock and roll. The decade ushered in the advent—and renaissance—of a number of genres, including post-punk, heavy metal, dance rock, and thrash metal. Even the hard and ...

From Bruce Springsteen to Def Leppard, several classic rock acts turned excellent albums into hit factories, and these ...

It’s no big secret that many huge pop and rock stars from the 60s and 70s struggled a bit when they tried to navigate the 80s. That doesn’t take into account the notion that some releases from those ...

Not every album finds its audience out of the gate and in this feature we're shining a spotlight on 10 1980s rock albums that should have been bigger than their initial returns that seem to have ...

An album will come around once in a generation to completely transform its genre. Among those special albums are the three below. Released from the 1980s to the 2000s, these rock albums were among the ...

Most music enthusiasts will agree that the 1980s were an important era for rock-and-roll, with plenty of bands from the genre producing memorable records throughout the decade. However, some '80s rock ...

What were the best deep cuts from the 1980s best-selling rock and metal albums and how did they stack up against each other? That's what we're exploring in this list as we revisit some of the biggest ...

This 1980s rock band is still going strong decades after their debut. Now, their studio album released in 1982 is back.