It was the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, one of the biggest gigs in Hendrix lore, when a trouser emergency struck ...

Eric Barrett was Hendrix's guitar tech during his heyday – and witnessed the legend's guitar-smashing antics firsthand ...

As the master Buddy Guy turns 90 this week- let's look back at a real grainy gem whose audio is one of music's most valuable ...

The debut album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience is many things. As contemporary blues guitarist Samantha Fish said: "Are You ...

If I don’t meet you no more in this world then I’ll meet you on the next one And don’t be late, don’t be late… –Jimi Hendrix, “Voodoo Child (Slight ...

Jimi Hendrix transformed the electric guitar from a rock instrument into an endless source of musical expression. Combining ...

The Top 250 American Songs don't merely represent the best popular music of the rock 'n' roll era; they also tell the story of American music over the past 70-plus years. In the list below, selected ...

You wouldn't think so to look at it. The building hides its secrets behind a symmetrical, Federal-style facade in keeping with the staid aesthetic of Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus. But ...

Queen drummer Roger Taylor has an encyclopedic knowledge of his instrument, which he’s been playing for a living throughout his entire adult life. Taylor has intensely studied drumming for several ...

One morning in early spring, I dreamed about Brian Eno’s head. It was night-time in a deserted garden centre. At the entrance a sign proclaimed: ‘Twenty Thousand Brian Enos!’ Row upon row, little ...

In the summer of ’69, hundreds of thousands of people converged on a muddy New York farm to soak in music by artists that Pink Floyd had gigged with: Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and Ten Years After, among ...