After Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” was featured in the 2007 series finale of HBO’s “The Sopranos,” the 26-year-old song enjoyed a surge in popularity, one that arguably hasn’t yet ceased. The high-profile placement also did wonders for its performers, as the band – whose star had dimmed considerably since their period of peak success in […]
Poison Outlasts Thorny Hiccups and Promises a ‘Good Time’ in Irvine
Thirty years ago next month, the pop-metal quartet Poison – whose guitar-powered party anthems, libidinous lyrics and gender-blurring image personified the “hair metal” subgenre of hard rock that dominated the charts in the late 1980s – rolled into Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre for the second time. The group initially played the venue the previous year […]