BACK IN ’86 revisits Cinderella’s 1986 debut album Night Songs, a bluesy, swagger-filled hard rock classic that launched the band into the spotlight.

It has been a brutal week for the rock music world, with at least five popular performers dying. It continues a sad trend as ...

As I've been looking back on various old memories in my series so far, a certain 'precious memory' suddenly came back ...

Just over a year since he revealed that he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease, Morten Harket, frontman for a-ha, has made a sensational return as a solo artist, with a new single, 'Hold Me', which ...

After spending the past few months learning how to play the complex material from its latest Sub Pop album Fantasia in a live setting, heavy rock trio SLIFT is taking it back to the French streets ...

I’ve never been more convinced or delusional.

These are three of the best soft rock songs from 1985, which are so good, it's likely that every 80s kid still knows them ...

It was an era that saw genres and attitudes mix to spectacular effect – now, Neil McCormick rules on the decade’s best of the best ...

Before Simple Minds became a global sensation with their 1985 hit “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” music icon Billy Idol was reportedly considered for the song. The band, led by the inseparable duo of ...

The age of the shopping mall has been waning in recent years. It’s hard to imagine a world in which angsty youths won’t be able to go to their local shopping center and hang out with their friends. It ...

A Tom Waits song first released in 1985 found a much bigger mainstream audience when Rod Stewart gave it a new sound four years later. “Downtown Train,” written and originally recorded by Waits for ...