Primarily, the sub-genre known as glam rock was popular in the first half of the 1970s, from 1971 to 1975. Short-lived but very influential, the musical style was born in the U.K. and has been ...

In his indelible history of glam rock, critic Simon Reynolds described the genre as “alien, sensationalistic, hysterical in both senses, a place where the sublime and ridiculous merge and become ...

Hair metal, which is also known as glam metal, was influenced by an earlier rock 'n' roll subgenre that started in the late 1960s called glam rock. The English band T. Rex were really responsible ...

Twenty-five years ago today, Todd Haynes’ impressionistic glam-rock fantasy Velvet Goldmine hit movie theaters, offering audiences a glimpse of a short-lived era of rock defined by artists like ...

progressive and baroque songs from the 1970s that make for essential listening There was glam rock, that reveled in the ...

You'd be hard-pressed to find a rock subgenre more critically reviled than glam metal. Unsurprisingly, the critics hated it, and not always without reason. For every six-string virtuoso and ...

Ladies and gentlemen, gays and theys, prepare to have your faces melted off by the bombastic rock ‘n’ roll theatrics of The Scarlet Opera, your next musical obsession. If you’re already ...

1970s rock 'n' roll did find its way into "Longlegs" in very tangible ways. As IndieWire reported, Longlegs was conceived as a former glam rock singer, and his white makeup was taken directly from ...

“Rock of Ages” is a carnival of glam rock, but more importantly of big hair. That’s teased hair, permed hair, dyed hair, bleached hair, mullets, ponytails, tossed, tussled and tormented hai ...

And it’s a wee bit more glam. Here’s what he had to say: Lestat becomes a rock star. Let’s start there. We’re going to do a lot with that and are excited about potentially working with ...