This acclaimed 1980 release helped cement The Police’s worldwide rise, even as Sting once tried to sideline the song that went on to win a Grammy Award.

In October 1979, US rock magazine Creem published a cover feature asking the provocative question ‘Is Heavy Metal Dead?’, and concluded that the writing was on the wall for the genre. Their judgment ...

Talking Heads arrived without finished songs. Their studio experiment became an all-time album.

This album was Judas Priest's first top 40 album in the U.S.

People of a certain age will tell you that everything peaked in the 1980s. To them, in an era before the internet and social media separated everyone, this decade was when America was about joy and ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...