Voodoo Child: not to be confused with Voodoo Chile ...

Throughout his career, Lou Reed adopted the unofficial position of cultural arbiter. Unabashedly honest, Reed’s honesty often ...

Eric Barrett recalls Jimi Hendrix’s final concert at the Isle of Fehmarn, where Hells Angels violence forced a harrowing ...

Jimi Hendrix's former roadie revealed the star's final words to him before he died of asphyxiation while intoxicated on ...

Neil Young’s camp says a wrong airport, gridlocked roads and a stolen pickup led to one of Woodstock’s strangest ...

One of rock's most famous misheard lyrics has survived for nearly six decades—and Hendrix eventually joined the joke.

Jeff Cornell is a veteran music and entertainment writer, who has contributed to Variety, Billboard, Loudwire, The Hollywood Reporter, and MTV. Jimi Hendrix revolutionized the electric guitar in the ...

When you think of Jimi Hendrix, chances are something flamboyant or incendiary comes to mind. His Stratocaster in flames at Monterey, or kneeling before a wall of amps at Woodstock. Those are in my ...

When Kurt Cobain died at 27, he was folded into a growing myth - the so-called “27 Club.” A narrative that groups together ...

Back in mid-1967, neither Jimi Hendrix nor Buddy Guy had yet cemented themselves as Mount Rushmore-level guitar pioneers who delighted in breaking rules, bending convention, and blowing minds. Hendrix ...

The psych-folk pioneer tells us about the “sprawling mess” of his songwriting, the hell of forgotten tunings, and the Telecaster that almost broke his back ...

What makes a great guitar solo? Is it pure emotion or dazzling technical command? Simplicity or complexity? One note or a thousand? Is it meticulously crafted melodic precision, hair-raising ...