Mark LeVine is a longtime contributor to Afropop Worldwide, also a scholar, musician and author of numerous books. Here, he reviews Rikki Stein's memoir, Moving Music. Afropop's Banning Eyre recently ...

Among a litany of legendary 1960s performances, one defining closed the epochal Woodstock free festival and granted the event its most iconic moment.

On January 4, 1969, guitarist Jimi Hendrix was banned from the BBC for going "off script" during a performance on 'Happening For Lulu'.

Less than two weeks before his death, Jimi Hendrix took to the stage for his final — and somewhat chaotic — scheduled performance with the Experience, featuring Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell ...

Join us for our traditional look back at the news and features that floated your boat this year. Back in 1990, Guitarist magazine caught up with The Who guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend, who ...

It's not exactly glaringly obvious, but the riff from a lesser known Hendrix track became the backbone to a very well known ...

Celebrated bluesman John Hammond was playing a regular New York City gig when he met Jimi Hendrix. He was already ... Solo is, for me, where the art belongs. If you could pull it off solo, you ...

2024 was full of country dude crossovers, but once again, there can only be one – on this Top 40, at least. And it ain’t the guy who got filmed using racial slurs and managed to become less ...

When it comes to CD and vinyl box sets, when is too much simply too much? In a word, never. How else to explain this year’s ...

In 2023, I absolutely loved launching the K-Pop Yearbook, celebrating a year in the genre with superlative-style accolades. Putting together these titles for soloists, bands, and music that moved us ...

In fact, weaving tall tales and shaping his own mythology was another important aspect of his art: he was creating the ultimate persona of an artist every bit as Pop as his paintings, one who ...

(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) Seoul (AP) — K-pop light sticks, Christmas lights and even Santa Claus outfits have taken over daily protests demanding the ouster of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ...