It's fun to mock the barrage of '80s rock ballads that came out of the rock and hair metal scene that decade, but as much as we'd like to pretend that upbeat anthems brought everyone out to the big ...

Rock bands have dished out plenty of ballads that have had people in the audience on their feet, lighters in the air, over the years. But what about country music? There are quite a few beautiful ...

Power ballads have been around since the 1970s, but when they well and truly hit the scene in the '80s, they changed rock 'n' roll forever. Their bombastic music, grandiose lyrics, and reflective ...

The Appalachian region was, in the early days of the United States, a melting pot of cultures unto itself. Irish and Scottish immigrants carved a life out of the hills and hollers of the mountains.

The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono includes an interview from 1980. During the interview, he was asked about “If I Fell.” “That’s my first attempt at a ...

Brad Gillis said the series of ballads released by Night Ranger in the ‘80s were responsible for killing the band. The ...

If there's one thing Aerosmith knows how to do, it's drugs. If there's another thing Aerosmith knows how to do, it's writing a killer power ballad. Weepy, lovesick mega-ballads became the band's stock ...

George Miller has gone by a lot of names in his 26 years. He went viral as Filthy Frank, igniting the “Harlem Shake” crazy, landed at No. 70 on the Billboard 200 album chart as comedic rapper Pink Guy ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Not long ago, the ballad genre was Korea's national soundtrack — filling karaoke rooms, topping the charts and etching itself into the country's collective memory. Then came the K-pop boom, and with ...