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 ...

Metal benefitted greatly from the mainstream in the 80s and, to some degree, in the 90s. There were a lot of bands that ...

As you will see in the below list of the Top 25 Rock Albums of the 21st Century (So Far), chosen by UCR's staff, artists such ...

Last month, we started looking at essential Missouri albums by decade. Here are six great '80s records that rose up from ...

He became one of the most successful soul/R&B artists of the 1980s. Very few people even realized Billy Ocean had been recording for nearly a decade before massive crossover smashes like "Suddenly" ...

The late 1970s was one of the wildest eras ever in music, as genres formed and imploded with random, rapid flair. In 1979, "Pop Muzik" seemed to anticipate the decade to come in the way that it melded ...

The seemingly enigmatic marriage between country and punk was first consecrated in the late ‘70s and early’80s with bands ...

In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock.