It's an often overlooked point, but Jimi Hendrix was a stage name, not his birth name. The reason he chose it is a simple one. Read more about it here.

Jimi Hendrix predicted the future success of a band who would reach their peak of fame years after Hendrix died.

Some of the most iconic guitars in rock history are going on display in London before they go under the hammer at auction.

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So, what did this revolutionary guitar player say the moment he laid eyes on the unrelenting force that was Jimi Hendrix? “It was probably one of the first shows he did [In London]. It was in a tiny ...

Years before Eddie Van Halen put it in the early pages of the guitar textbook, Harvey Mandel was highlighting his ...

From his roots in New York’s Greenwich Village folk music scene of the early ‘60s to his more recent role as a grizzled blues journeyman, Bob Dylan, who turns 84 this year, is one of rock music’s most ...

In “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,” Hendrix leans into the trauma of being an unwed teen mother in 1970 — and 15-year-old Neva is living it. Her family is horrified, as any “respectable ...

The Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change will study how music can improve well-being and community.

This example of classic rock songs based on dreams might be a bit surprising to some. “Break It Up” by Patti Smith was written after she had a “vision” of Jim Morrison in a dream. That, coupled with ...

A.J. Weberman — the writer and gadfly who gained notoriety in the 1970s by picking through Bob Dylan’s garbage — recently ...