When one thinks of punk rock music from the 1980s, usually British bands come to mind. While punk and proto-punk bands across the pond definitely pioneered their own legendary period in rock music, ...

What are the best rock songs of the 1980s? It was a decade that saw quite a bit of change as acts moved beyond the catchy guitar riffs of the '70s to show more technical prowess and a broader range of ...

AC/DC’s Back in Black, Motörhead’s Ace of Spades, Taking Heads’ Remain in Light, Judas Priest’s British Steel, Joy Division’s Closer, and Zenyatta Mondatta by The Police, to name a few. Van Halen, ...

Rock music is generally traced back to the 1950s, but classic rock had its breakthrough in the '70s and '80s. While Elvis Presley is often called the King of Rock and Roll, rock music was actually ...

Here's why Genesis abandoned prog rock for pop in the 1980s! Progressive rock was huge throughout the 1970s, but as the music industry and the pubic gradually leaned into synth-pop, art pop and new ...

The reason that rock is the greatest genre of music is that it is a bit like the English language. It didn't really invent itself, but evolved from other forms. English and rock have both grown ...

The '80s began with holdovers from the previous decade still holding sway, then quickly began to morph. Some of those first- and second-generation classic rockers adapted to an era defined by ...