Freeman, who is also the founding bassist of queercore pioneers Pansy Division, brings a deep understanding of subversive rock history to the project. But even with the tongue-in-cheek edge, the new ...

Andrew Cumming: An underestimated force in the rise of glam metal, Twisted Sister had all the ingredients that made Motley Crue and Ratt etc successful - makeup-wearing, riff-driven, anthemic ...

Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images In the early 1980s, Dee Snider, the frontman of an unknown East Coast glam-metal band named Twisted Sister, wrote the chorus for a hard rock anthem that he knew wa ...

Metal bands had their heyday in the 80s and ... That didn’t seem to affect the band in terms of their output and how they went about things. Despite Twisted Sister‘s success and how catchy their songs ...

which hewed closer to proto-metal outfits like Slade than their glam origins. All of these elements helped to make Twisted Sister a top audience draw in New York clubs, where they frequently set ...

When glam metal first took the world by storm, it was reviled by critics as shallow, sex-obsessed fluff. And while the genre was certainly driven by libido, that doesn't diminish the smart ...

I choose to celebrate this day by cranking up the hair metal all day! I love my 80's hard rock and ... The band has sold nearly 10 million albums worldwide. Dee Snider joined Twisted Sister in 1976 ...

from Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard to Twisted Sister and Ratt, but any way you look at it, Hootie falls well outside the glam metal perimeters. “We were able to fake our way through it a ...

Glam rocker Jack Russell ... Great White toured with major acts of the era, including Guns N’ Roses and Twisted Sister. Getty Images Founded in Los Angeles in 1977, Great White’s heyday ...

Fatally. One year later, Ted and his new girlfriend (Caroline Menton) are dismayed by the arrival of Dani’s blind twin sister, Darcy (also played by Bracken), a psychic who owns a curio shop in ...

The hit song turned glam metal on its ear during the early days of MTV. Twisted Sister was launched into superstardom thanks to its best-selling record Stay Hungry, which also included “I Wanna ...