The 1980s were a great time for pop and rock. Plenty of huge names from that era are still remembered today, and some of them are still producing music today, too. However, a few too many bands ...

Art-rock band Salem 66 tore through the underground music scene in Boston in the 1980s. The group played alongside musicians like Amherst-born rock band Dinosaur Jr., toured across the country and ...

As we made the switch from the music of the 1970s to the 1980s styles changed and adapted too. The 1970s had been full, of different styles and ended with new wave and the tail end of punk rock added ...

This is the second installment of the best American rock bands from the 1980s. The previous list featured Van Halen, Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, and R.E.M. While some artists spring into existence with ...

Al Barile, who played guitar in the influential Boston hardcore band SS Decontrol — a linchpin of the drink-and-drug-shunning straight-edge scene of the early 1980s that also encompassed Washington’s ...