Written as a love song, Sweet Child O’ Mine evolved into Guns N’ Roses’ most iconic ballad and a defining masterpiece of rock ...

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 ...

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The '90s produced some of alt-rock's most memorable and defining ballads. These 11 songs showcase the genre at its most ...

Everybody loves power ballads, whether or not they admit it. There’s just something about a rock band slowing things down and cranking up the emotion. For generations, the force of power ballads has ...

Genre lines are hard to cross. Though those lines are getting muddier by the day, there were times throughout music history when listeners stuck very closely to what they knew. It’s not super common ...

They’re majestic, often misunderstood, and undeniably awesome - but to most of us, they’re known as power ballads. Any list of killer power ballads has to include some absolute titans of the genre. We ...