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Can a ?trashy Victorian glam? look and one big video hit lead the way to sell more than one million copies of an album? If it?s the late eighties, the name of the band is Britny Fox, and that hit is ?Girlschool?, the answer is YES. Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Admit it: this picture makes you SO FUCKING HAPPY. Recently, my friend sent me a YouTube link to a Bee Gees cover group. Excuse me, tribute band. That is the proper way of addressing them, as Mark Wahlberg taught us in Rock Star. I don’t like the Bee Gees. I don’t like disco. Disco is [...]

The '80s generally can be broken into two parts – new wave in the beginning and pop/hair/glam-metal for the end. As the popularity of new wave’s second wave began to decline in the mid '80s, hard rock bands, mostly out of the Los Angeles club circuit, like Motley Crue and Ratt, started to fill the vacancy. Boosted by ever increasing airplay on MTV (even creating the metal-centric Headbangers’ Ball ), these rockers with their penchant for guitar hooks, elaborate fashion, makeup, and wild hair topped the charts, sold millions of records, and received a lion’s share of radio airplay [...]

Usually when a fad fizzles, its casual fans disperse and its faithful just hang tough. But no trend, including the macarena and Jewel, has been subjected to the hostility and convenient disgust that follows Glam Metal and its fans. Perhaps the extra-harsh reaction is proportionate to its success as an inescapable, nearly decade-long craze that [...]

There are very few things in this world I would willingly own up to enjoying even if it meant enduring endless grief - but hair metal is one of those things. That being said, I always involuntarily cringe when someone asks me to recommend a band in the genre, because, well, a lot of [...]

Today is definitely the day I'll probably catch up on my sleep. Heh. I can't say I'm all that excited about the main stage performers, so I'll probably spend the majority of the day hitting the side stages with hopes of something stellar falling into my lap. One act I am definitely looking forward to seeing is Keel. I graduated high school in 1985. Keel's The Right To Rock would become the fastest-selling debut album in A&M’s history that year. The band are [...]

• Britny Fox - Long Way To Love
• Keel - Because The Night