Brett Callwood

Love it or loathe it, hair metal/glam metal/cock rock (call it what you want) is a big part of the musical history in this town and, thankfully, there are plenty of bands, promoters and fans who refuse to let it die. While the Rainbow hosts Backyard Bashes, while Taime Downe has breath in his smoke-filled lungs, this music will live on in L.A....

Christmas songs can be terrible, annoying things. So the songs that are genuinely great, as well as being holiday-themed, are to be cherished. Here are 10 that shouldn’t drive you into an eggnog stupor by Christmas Eve....

“I’ve sought out and found that 13-year-old kid that loved the band and is now grown up, and I have put him in the band," says O.G. bandmember Bill Manspeaker, the only original member left....

Quite where “punk” ends and “hardcore” begins is open to debate, though that accounts for notable omissions in our list of 10 of the finest albums the genre spat out, such as Dead Kennedys, The Germs, Misfits and The Exploited, to name just four. Similarly, we restricted the list to just one album from any one act....

But for the next month, he'll mostly be playing around town with the Secondmen, including two opening dates with X....

Though he was replaced after two albums by Mike Patton, Mosley's distinctive, sometimes maligned vocals helped make Faith No More one of the most original bands of the '80s....

Ironically, for a band that became famous for its female lead singers performing topless, Butcher Babies' third album is their first to explore openly sexual themes....

We talked to Bumblefoot and Gilby Clarke about their latest projects and their thoughts on the humongous GNR reunion....

Don't know your Front Line Assemblys from your Front 242s? This guide to industrial's most influential LPs will set you straight....