Jimi Hendrix

Billy Gibbons's Moving Sidewalks Are Back in a Flash

The psychedelic trailblazers reunite after 40-plus years

Top 10 Concert Films to See Before You Die

By Daniel Kohn For music fans, there's nothing better than seeing your favorite band or checking out an up-and-coming act in person. While the records serve as a tangible finished product that fans can jam on until eternity, the live show experience explains more about a band than their recorded wo ... More >>

100 & Single: Three Rules To Define The Term "One-Hit Wonder" In 2012

You could hear the sigh of relief among pop fans a couple of weeks ago, when Carly Rae Jepsen's single with Owl City, "Good Time," broke into the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100. In his weekly chart roundup, veteran columnist Paul Grein remarked, "'Good Time' is an appropriately positive title for a ... More >>

Live: Janelle Monáe, TV On The Radio, And Toro Y Moi Break Boundaries At Afro-Punk

Afro-Punk Festival Commodore Barry Park Sunday, August 26 Better than: Sitting at home, waiting for Breaking Bad to start. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley were some of the original architects of rock and roll. Jimi Hendrix pushed it forward in the late '60s. Then came Prince. And Bad B ... More >>

PEACE, MAN

The '60s are back

Live: The Roots, Living Colour, And Others Pay Tribute To Jimi Hendrix At SummerStage

SummerStage Honors the Music of Jimi Hendrix Central Park SummerStage Tuesday, June 5 Better than: Exercising, which is apparently what you're supposed to be doing in Central Park. Hendrix was really into covers—his live sets were littered with songs by Cream ("Sunshine of Your Love"), Dyla ... More >>

'Annual SummerStage Gala Honoring the Music of Jimi Hendrix'

Jimmy Castor, R.I.P.

Jimmy Castor was a smart aleck; a wise guy; a clean shit-talker with so much joie de vivre you had to laugh even when his truth-telling smacked you upside the head. So when he died this past Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 71 near his home outside of Las Vegas, far away from the streets of Harlem he o ... More >>

Ten Crucial Fourth Of July Jams, As Chosen By "Along The Watchtower" Author Constance Squires

​Along The Watchtower, the debut novel by Constance Squires, is a story of an Army brat whose tumultuous upbringing was kept steady in part by her discovery of rock and roll. It's published Tuesday, and in honor of its impending release and the coming holiday—don't forget, Monday's Ameri ... More >>

FAR OUT

Oneida and friends join the Joshua Light Show

Q&A: Soul Singer Willie West On Jimi Hendrix, The Meters, Lousy Blaxploitation Flicks, And His Overabundance Of "Stage Gab"

"Like I'm supposed to just stand up there and sing and look mean and play music and not entertain people! I could not do that." Knocking 'em dead in 1966​Back in the '60s, hanging around outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in Midtown, Jimi Hendrix took off the pink bandana he was wearing and pres ... More >>

Cherry Vanilla Regrets Not Banging More Rock Stars

​Cherry Vanilla is the ex-groupie/Bowie-publicist/rock performer with a new book out about the great times she had popping her Cherry. At a reading I went to the other day, Cherry sat on a gigantic, red high heel--though in the past, she's sat on other things--and told the crowd how much fun ... More >>

Reba McEntire Sings Beyoncé and 5 Other Cross-Genre Covers Done in Earnest

Reba McEntire's new album, All the Women I Am, features a spirited rendition of Beyoncé's "If I Were a Boy," which you can hear above, and which got us thinking again about the tricky nature of cross-genre cover songs. McEntire remains true to the song's melody, save the addition of her country tw ... More >>

Hotel Chelsea Now on the Market, Will Probably Go Upscale (Sigh)

​It's the end of an era. The Hotel Chelsea, which opened in 1884 -- where Sid Vicious may or may not have killed Nancy Spungen, Andy Warhol directed Chelsea Girls, and the names of residents frequently read like a who's who of '60s counterculture -- is now up for sale, reports the Wall Street ... More >>

Jimi Hendrix Finishes His Electric Lady Studio on 8th Street

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 25, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 26 Scenes By Howard Smith WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studio was first announced, costs were cheerfully estimated at $350,000 to convert the old square dance premises of the Village ... More >>

Galactic+Some Cat From Japan

Music Critics and Winnie the Pooh

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 18, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 40 Autohype by Richard Goldstein Autohype. I first heard that word from Robert Christgau (writer, critic, and as harmless as Winnie the Pooh). We were sitting within shouting distance of each other at Mont ... More >>

Tonight! Joshua Light Show w/ itsnotyouitsme, Venom P. Stinger, Fresh Kills, Massive Attack, Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now!, And Escort

Returning tonight to the Abrons Arts Center is the Joshua Light Show, a/k/a the guy who, during the '60s and '70s, popularized gloopy, Technicolor, acid-brewed concert projections and, oh yeah, worked with Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, the Who, and other sweet dudes. Yes in My Backyard-pick itsnotyouit ... More >>

HIGH TIMES

Trip out to the Joshua Light Show

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Tonight! MNDR, Amanda Blank, Semi Precious Weapons, and Boukman Eksperyans

​As long as it's for a good cause Monday night boozehound dancing doesn't translate into a serious alcohol problem...so celebrate boobs and girl power at the Bell House's Keep A Breast Benefit with electropop divas. First, MNDR, a/k/a Amanda Warner (to your left), dons oversized acid freak gla ... More >>

The All Points West Festival Is Even More Dead Than It Was Before

So tragic that we will never have a chance to do this again​Despite having Radiohead as a headliner in 2008, and Jay-Z and Coldplay on successive nights in 2009, AEG Live's All Points West Festival has never seemed anything less than cursed: just ask anyone who braved the mudfields of Liberty ... More >>

Slideshows Abound for Brooklyn Museum's Rock Exhibit

​The Times. New York magazine, Spinner et alia will show you slides from the Brooklyn Museum's Who Shot Rock 'n' Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present exhibit. They sure didn't get press like this for Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video. The show opened this we ... More >>

ROCKIN' 'N' ROLLIN'

Afro-punks rule at this skate park

"Brooklyn D.I.Y. Festival" Hillstock Takes Place This Weekend, With Screaming Females, the Eskalators, and Air Waves

Click to enlarge. Finally pulling out the bullhorn on this weekend's permit-less backyard-and-rooftop festival, Hillstock, after initial concern for blowing up the event's spot. But, by now, you're either going or you're not. Organized by Food'lebrity frankfurter Alex Billig and his Eskalators' ban ... More >>

The Dead Science+Bobby Conn+Monica Bou Bou

Live: Snoopy Dancing to the Allman Brothers at the Beacon

Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre Thursday, March 26 I felt like this is something I should do at least once, given that many people feel like they should do this, like, hundreds of times. "There's an extra rig onstage," notes a clearly loyal gentleman in the men's bathroom, minutes before sho ... More >>

More Tweets, Twits from CPAC in DC

"These are troubling times," says Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid, above at the Conservative Political Action Conference today. "To bring up an old song by Jimi Hendrix, manic depression is searching my soul." Also says, at least back in the 1980s, "we knew that our president was born in the Uni ... More >>

WILD THING

Celebrating 30 years of the original 'punk ballerina'

Ask a Mexican: Don't Believe the Jimi Hendrix Mexican Hype

Dirty Blonde: Subway Calamity, and the Return of the '90s

Bring a book—and your cargo pants

"Looking at Music" at MoMA

Possibly 4th Street: Deadstring Brothers on the LES

The National Review Says Barrett's Reporting Is 'Meticulous'

Bargain Basement

Kicks—in the Flesh

Sneaker heads unite in Chelsea

New Wonderland

Accidental teenthrob counts himself a man in his new wonderland

Christians and Heathens

Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos

Mine Enemy The Turkey

Add to the many things not to be thankful for this year 13 CDs that will make your gorge rise

Musicology

Prof's soul story subsumes civil rights and black power in gospel vision

Not Against Interpretation

Jimi Hendrix, meet Leonard Bernstein: Two equally recondite sources of jazz repertoire

Deep Purple

Race Matters in New Books on Prince and Hendrix

Sawing Through Italy

Giovanni Sollima’s Musical Tour of Italy Enchants at Least One Listener

Ecleftic Ladyland

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If White Folks Had Invented Jazz, Would Anyone Care?

Total Eclipse of Art

Sound Factory

Charting Musical Dreams

The Goths Must Be Crazy

Dark Metal's Windowless World

Wayne's World