Poison　

In a decade fueled by party anthems and power ballads, Poison enjoyed a great amount of popularity, with only Bon Jovi and Def Leppard outselling them. While the group had a long string of ..more

Warhorse　

Formed in 1970 around ex-Deep Purple bassist Nick Simper, Warhorse were understandably close to early Deep Purple in their blend of keyboard-colored progressive rock and early heavy metal. ..more

Nazareth　

The Scottish hard rock quartet Nazareth had a handful of hard rock hits in the late ’70s, including the proto-power ballad Love Hurts. Formed in 1968, the band featured vocalist Dan ..more

Blue Murder　

Blue Murder features Carmine Appice on drums, John Sykes of Whitesnake fame on guitar, and Tony Franklin, who played with The Firm, on bass. Great supergroup playing some heavy riffs ..more

Blackberry Smoke　

Building on the Lynyrd Skynyrd Southern rock template with a good dose of outlaw honky tonk country and a little bit of bluegrass, gospel, and R＆B mixed in, Blackberry Smoke (singer/guitarist ..more

The Prog Collective　

Greenslade　

Dave Greenslade (keys) and Tony Reeves (bass) formed Greenslade in 1972. The two had previously played together in Colosseum and they recruited Dave Lawson (Episode Six) as vocalist. ..more

Eclipse (スウェーデン)　

Tesla　

Although Tesla emerged during the glory days of hair metal, the band’s music was equally indebted to contemporary blues and ’70s-style hard rock, a fusion that helped differentiate albums lik ..more

Falco　

Falco was the most internationally successful pop artist ever to come out of Austria, best known for his 1986 chart-topping hit Rock Me Amadeus. Born Johann Holzel in Vienna on February ..more

Einsturzende Neubauten　

Along with Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, Germany’s Einsturzende Neubauten (collapsing new buildings) helped pioneer industrial music with an avant-garde mix of white-noise guitar ..more

Jon & Vangelis　

Yes singer Jon Anderson and Greek synth-composer Vangelis teamed up in the ’80s for a pop-music experiment ~ All Music Guide, Rovi ..more

Iron & Wine　

Singer/songwriter Sam Beam, who rose to prominence with a blend of whispered vocals and softly homespun indie folk, chose the moniker Iron ＆ Wine after coming across a dietary supplement named ..more

Phil Lynott's Grand Slam　

Kirsty Maccoll　

Kirsty MacColl, daughter of folk singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl, began her own musical career while still in her teens, singing in a band called the Addix, and eventually signed to the ..more

John Cale　

While John Cale is one of the most famous and, in his own way, influential underground rock musicians, he is also one of the hardest to pin down stylistically. Much has been made of his schooling i ..more

Mountain　

The breakup of Cream in late 1968 had consequences that rippled across the rock music world -- in its wake were formed directly such bands as Blind Faith (whose tragedy was they never had a chan ..more

Elbow　

Injecting a wider range of emotions into their music than most of their guitar-based British peers, Elbow have been known to refer to their grandiose orchestral sound as prog without the solos. T ..more

Foghat　

Foghat specialized in a simple, hard-rocking blues-rock, releasing a series of best-selling albums in the mid-’70s. While never deviating from their basic boogie, they retained a large audience unt ..more

My Dying Bride　

European goth metal band My Dying Bride formed in June 1990. The four-piece first recorded the demo tape Towards the Sinister, and after the release of a 7 single for the French Listenable l ..more