The Top 100 Music Festival Lineups of All Time
Sorting through more than 50 years of North American music festival lineups is a daunting task any way you slice it. To create this definitive list, more than a dozen Consequence of Sound festival...
View ArticleRed Hot Chili Peppers cover Jimi Hendrix classic “Purple Haze” in LA: Watch
Red Hot Chili Peppers are scheduled to hit the studio any day now to begin work on their new album, the follow-up to 2016’s The Getaway. Before holing up, however, the California rockers performed as...
View ArticleThe Jimi Hendrix Experience unveils Electric Ladyland box set filled with...
Have you ever been to Electric Ladyland? Not like this.Today marks the release of the 50th anniversary box set for The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s timeless 1968 double album. Subscribers of Apple Music...
View ArticleJimi Hendrix’s Top 10 Concerts
This feature originally ran in February 2016. We’re reposting it in celebration of Jimi Hendrix’s 76th birthday.It’s one of the odder contradictions about Jimi Hendrix: Despite being so enigmatic and...
View ArticleClassic Album Review: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Bow Out Gloriously on...
Earlier this month, The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s 1968 double album, Electric Ladyland, celebrated its 50th anniversary with a new box set featuring previously unreleased demos, alternate takes, and a...
View ArticleJimi Hendrix’s Lost Influence on the ’90s Grunge Explosion
The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s 1968 double album, Electric Ladyland, recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with a new box set featuring previously unreleased demos, alternate takes, and a live...
View ArticleDeconstructing the Deification of Jimi Hendrix
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | Follow via FacebookThe Opus returns to journey deep into the uncanny realm of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric...
View ArticleWin a Brand New Fender Jimi Hendrix Stratocaster!
No one will ever be able to conjure up the “Spanish Castle Magic” of Jimi Hendrix. Not Eric Clapton, not John Frusciante, and not even Santana. The legend remains in an upper echelon all by himself …...
View ArticleThe Cinematic Immortality of Jimi Hendrix
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | Follow via FacebookOur podcast series, The Opus, continues its journey into The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric...
View ArticleRevisiting the Reluctant Radicalism of Robert Wyatt
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Radio Public In the third episode of Ghost Echoes, the secret rules direct us towards a reluctant radical in Robert Wyatt. The eclectic and political...
View ArticleGang of Four’s Jon King: “Hendrix Was a God to Us”
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSSGang of Four co-founder Jon King speaks with Kyle Meredith about the band’s new box set, ‘77-’81. The post-punk legend...
View ArticleWin a Jimi Hendrix Live in Maui Prize Pack Including a Fender Stratocaster,...
In the summer of 1970, Jimi Hendrix was set to play a concert in Honolulu, Hawaii. At the same time, his manager, the controversial Michael Jeffery, was trying to film a now-infamous movie called...
View ArticleGibson Custom Shop Recreates Two Classic Jimi Hendrix Guitars
Two of Jimi Hendrix’s iconic Gibson guitars have received the custom shop treatment. Gibson has announced new replicas of Hendrix’s 1969 Flying V and 1967 SG Custom, recreating the instruments in...
View Article10 Defining Jimi Hendrix Live Moments
The term “legend” gets tossed around too liberally. So does the qualifier “iconic.” That’s not the case with Jimi Hendrix. The Seattle-born guitarist and the impact he had on both popular music and...
View ArticleRobert Fripp and Toyah Salute a Famous Misheard Lyric in Cover of Jimi...
It’s Super Bowl Sunday in the United States, but in the UK it’s another super “Sunday Lunch” with Robert Fripp and Toyah. This time around, the King Crimson guitarist and his singer wife have a little...
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