Sounding not unlike Echo and The Bunnymen – there's even a mention of crocodiles in the following song – they were a potent live force and in a parallel universe are living in big mansions in Killiney ...

perhaps they owe much of that success to the stellar releases that kicked off the decade. Read about all of these and more in our list of the Top 15 Hard Rock and Metal Albums of 1980.

From Eddie Van Halen and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Daniel Ash and Jamie West-Oram, we cover the gamut of the decade's greatest players across the genres ...

"It's really fun to play to a generational audience," said British music star Howard Jones, coming to Brown County Music ...

First it was an album in 1971, then an autobiography in 1976 and later a feature film in 1980. Now the story of country music ...

Jimmy Page was a guitarist in the Yardbirds and one of the busiest session musicians in London in the mid-‘60s when he first ...

Five Clapton live albums reached the Top 20, highlighted by the Top 5 smashes Just One Night and Unplugged. These concert ...

The second was Rapture, a song that merges disco, hip-hop, funk and new wave Rapture would go on to become the first No. 1 ...

Billy Joel has claimed “Don’t Ask Me Why," a hit from his 1980 album Glass Houses, was borne of some stream-of-consciousness reflections of his time spent traveling. But the lyrics tell such a ...

The LP, which will be pressed on 200-gram vinyl, will feature a 2024 mix of the album. The disc also will ... he wound up recording with Fripp in the 1980s. He explained that he and Robert grew ...

Any classic rock fan may have been clamouring for more Eagles music after their breakup, but they might have been closer to a ...

Chicago trio Horsegirl have released their second album, 'Phonetics On and On', which blends playful indie pop with a sense of melancholy and uncertainty.