Jimi Hendrix

His blazing rendition at Woodstock still echoes throughout the years, reminding us of what is worth fighting for in the American experiment.

It also inspired my own scholarship on the national anthem.

“Hendrix used a range of technological innovations...to expand the sound of the guitar, to make it ‘talk’ in ways that it never had.”

A new release records the musician’s early metamorphosis—unmoored, broke, living for a time in an attic—when her lodestar was her big, strange, unwieldy talent.

And how the Rolling Stones, a band in love with black music, helped lead the way to rock’s segregated future.

Retro was not the antithesis to the sub- and countercultural experiments of the 1960s, it grew directly out of them.

The new documentary “I Am Everything” explores the gulf between what Richard accomplished and what he got for it.

Research on psychedelics has been riddled with medical racism and exclusion but it hasn’t stopped Black people from finding creativity and solace through drugs.

Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary "Summer of Soul," revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.

Lawrence Matsuda talks about his family history, his experiences of discrimination, and his work in bilingual and Asian American representation in education.

From the moment DeFord Bailey stepped onto a stage in Nashville, country music would never be the same. Decades after his death he finally got his due.

On the Grateful Dead's “New Speedway Boogie,” and the true end of the Sixties.

Air guitar competitions may seem rather new, but this sport has a long, evolving, and sometimes surprising history.

Racist critics declared that Franklin ‘crucified’ the anthem at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

The four-piece lived with the New York Dolls and played with Sid Vicious, but they’ve been largely written out of cultural history.

Bob Dylan's confessional album resisted the political radicalism and activism of 1967.

Reflections on the life of Little Richard, the star who mistook a satellite for a ball of fire.