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One of the first signs that Jimmy Carter was not your average politician came in January 1974. Already a Bob Dylan fan, the then-governor of Georgia was in the audience at Atlanta’s Omni Coliseum to see Bob Dylan and the Band on their historic tour. Afterward, the musicians, promoter Bill Graham, and a few local music-biz associates were driven (accompanied by state troopers) to the governor’s mansion for an after-show gathering.

In the years that followed — both during his White House run and subsequent presidency — Carter confirmed his music-fan...

A version of this response appeared on the Black Rock Coalition’s website.

When Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner made offensive comments in The New York Times about women and Black artists, the Black Rock Coalition, which has battled stereotypes and musical categorizations about what rock is “supposed to be” since 1985, felt obligated to speak out and condemn his misogynistic and racist statements. While we were among many organizations and individuals to call out Wenner, he also had a number of supporters, citing his contributions to popular culture and to the world of music journalism.

Cream will release their 1968 show at the Forum in Los Angeles on vinyl for the first time April 23rd.

Live at the Forum captures the band’s October 19th, 1968 concert at the titular venue, which was part of their final run of shows before breaking up. While this marks the first time the full show has been released on vinyl, a handful of tracks from the performance were included on Cream’s 1969 album, Goodbye, while last year the show was released in full on the four-cd set, Goodbye Tour Live...

Cream collect four complete concerts from the supergroup’s farewell tour for their upcoming Goodbye Tour Live 1968 box set.

The four-cd set, out February 7th, 2020 and available to preorder now, features the three of band’s October 1968 California concerts – Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego – as well as Cream’s November 26th, 1968 farewell gig from London’s Royal Albert Hall. Of the box set’s 36 tracks, 29 were previously available on CD, with 19 of those unreleased entirely.

“Cream was a shambling circus of diverse personalities who happened to find that catalyst together…...

The Band of Gypsys work their way up to a comfortable groove on a previously unreleased recording of “Ezy Ryder,” recorded at the Fillmore East half a century ago, which will feature on a new box set. From the start, drummer Buddy Miles sets the tempo, while Jimi Hendrix and bassist Billy Cox establish the riff, all leading up to an explosion of Hendrix singing, “Ezy, Ezy Ryder, riding down the highways of desire.” The band had already played the song once already that day in an earlier set, and...

Half a century ago, when Jimi Hendrix began work on what would become his the final album to come out in his lifetime, Electric Ladyland, he was finding inspiration everywhere. “Jimi was very much in the realm of experimentation,” says one of the album’s recording engineers, Eddie Kramer. Kramer is seated in the control room of Electric Lady Studios, the New York studio Hendrix opened shortly before his death in 1970. “When I first started working with him, [Hendrix manager] Chas Chandler told me, ‘The rules are, “There are no rules.’ We...

[Press Release] Los Angeles, Feb. 19, 2014 -- On March 25, hot on the heels of their Grammy nomination, force-of-nature blues-rock vocalist Beth Hart and guitar hero Joe Bonamassa will deliver Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa – Live In Amsterdam (2Dvd/Blu-ray/2Cd) – the very first live experience from one of music's most powerful female voices and one of the world's greatest guitar players. Against the backdrop of the beautiful, historic Koninklijk Theater Carre in Amsterdam, the performance wows with scorching soul covers from the duo's 2011 debut album Don't Explain and 2013 follow-up Seesaw, originally made famous by artists such as Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Tom Waits, Ray Charles, Donnie Hathaway, Lucinda Williams, Bill Withers, Delaney & Bonnie, Buddy Miles,...

Update: The track has been removed from the internet, but only for a little bit. A message on the video below indicates that it will be reposted at 3 a.m. tomorrow. Fans will be treated to 12 previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix tracks when People, Hell and Angels album is released on March 5. First previewing a sample of the recording on what would have been the iconic musician’s 70th birthday, Rolling Stone has debuted the full version of the lead single “Somewhere.” Recorded in 1968, Hendrix showcases his blend of blues and rock as he jams with Buddy Miles on...

Jimi Hendrix is back on the airwaves with new music.

Hendrix's previously unheard song "Somewhere" debuted on BBC Radio on Monday morning.

"Somewhere" is a part of the upcoming album of Hendrix music, "People, Hell, and Angels." Hendrix's former sound manager, Eddie Kramer, put together the album of unheard music that was originally planned to follow-up Hendrix's 1968 album, "Electric Ladyland."

The song, which has Stephen Stills on bass and Buddy Miles on drums, was teased in November during an interview with Kramer.

Hendrix is also the subject of an upcoming biopic starring Andre 3000. Titled "All Is by My Side," the film focuses on the beginning of Hendrix's career.

The 12-track "People, Hell, and Angels" is due out March 5. Head over to BBC to take a listen to "Somewhere."...

At the height of their fame, the Monkees teamed up with Jack Nicholson to film the psychedelic classic Head – and destroy their careers in the process. So how do they feel about it now

Davy Jones doesn't really want to talk about Head. The former Monkees heartthrob is happy to talk about his old home in Manchester, his new home in Florida, his racehorses, his theatre career – anything, basically, except the cryptic, psychedelic art movie that, in 1968, marked the end of the Monkees' short tenure as the biggest rock band in America. "We were pawns in something we helped create but had no control over," he says crossly. "We should have made Ghostbusters, Ok?"

Head could never be mistaken for Ghostbusters. It's a fourth-wall-shattering, stream-of-consciousness black comedy that mocks war, America, Hollywood, television, the music business and the Monkees themselves. These days, it is fondly remembered as one of the...

Thomas Wolfe said you can't go home again. Was he right? One of the quiet gems of 2009 was an album originally produced by Bob Dylan in 1973. Other than his own work under the pseudonymous Jack Frost, it's the only album Dylan ever produced. It's not, however, a Dylan record, it's a Barry Goldberg record. Even if you've never heard of Barry Goldberg, you've heard Barry Goldberg. Keyboardist/songwriter/producer, he wrote a #1 hit ("I've Got To Use My Imagination" by Gladys Knight & The Pips) and played on another ("Devil With A Blue Dress" by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels). As part of the Chicago blues mafia of the 1960s, he ran with the late string king Mike Bloomfield. They co-founded Electric Flag (with Buddy Miles, among others), and Barry later...

Sly is dressed up nice tonight — in a royal violet dinnercoat length leather jacket with collars big enough to be a cape. A violet silk shirt. Violet leather pants. Fur-fringed boots. Walking tall.

But tonight here’s no concert, no TV show, no family reunion in Daly City. No Family Stone. Sly’s at the Johnny On the Spot rehearsal studios out on the 5400 block of Santa Monica Boulevard, near Beverly Hills. He’s here, with friend Buddy Miles and secretary Stephanie in tow, to look over prospects for a...