On Saturday, a trio of hair-metal tribute bands will perform at the Aplex in Alpena. The annual Armageddon – Def Leppard, Ratt, and Poison Tribute is returning and tickets are on sale now on the Aplex ...
As the founder and singer of Ratt, Stephen Pearcy was front and center for the group’s hair metal heights in the 1980s. Thanks to their massive debut album Out of the Cellar (1984) and its hit single ...
Pop and MTV ruled supreme but 1986 was also a banner year for hip hop and metal.
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Stephen Pearcy’s brush with death

Stephen Pearcy will be the first to tell you that he’s tempted fate plenty of times in the past. But finding out he had liver ...
This coming week, Pearcy will join his Ratt bandmate Warren DeMartini as the guitarist is honored as an inductee in the Metal ...
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Peter Gabriel & Paramore have also charted enduring No. 26-peaking songs. By Gary Trust More than 300 songs have peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100, and ...
Move over, thrash — these are the six best hair metal albums of 1986. As the Bay Area headbangers were catching fire and ...
This year in music had no shortage of hits, but only a handful of songs truly rose above the rest. Whether they dominated the charts, took over social media or just refused to leave our heads, these ...
A lot has changed over the course of “Stranger Things” Season 5. Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) left previous fears and insecurities behind, Kali (Linnea Berthelsen) unexpectedly returned and — oh, yeah! — ...
Seventy-five charted on the ranking for the first time last year, including Olivia Dean, KATSEYE, sombr and Leon Thomas. By Xander Zellner In the 2025 calendar year, 711 total songs appeared on the ...
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Back in September 2023, Bruce Springsteen announced that he would have to shelve his planned tour until March 2024 so he could recover from peptic ulcer disease. The temporary retreat shouldn’t be ...