It's interesting, and even amusing, to go back to a time when Hendrix wasn't a rock deity. In 1968 when he released his third album, he was still the hot new artist on the scene. His debut album, Are ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Electric Ladyland is being reissued with a massive 50th anniversary deluxe box set. Due on Nov. 9, the album will be available as either a three-CD/Blu-ray set or a ...

Faced with prevailing backward-looking musical trends, Jimi Hendrix went his own way. Electric Ladyland, the third and final Jimi Hendrix Experience project, arrived on Oct. 16, 1968, not as an ...

A key element of the newly released 50th anniversary edition of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s 1968 album “Electric Ladyland” is a disc that includes a recording of the group’s concert at the Hollywood ...

CD 1: Electric Ladyland Remastered - … And the Gods Made Love; Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland); Crosstown Traffic; Voodoo Chile; Little Miss Strange; Long Hot Summer Night; Come On (Part I); ...

In 1968, rock music was at its peak popularity. The Beatles were on a creative high, following a busy 1967 during which they released “Magical Mystery Tour” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” ...

Originally published in Uncut Take 257 [October 2018]. Against a backdrop of riots, assassinations and radical expression, JIMI HENDRIX unleashes Electric Ladyland: his final studio masterpiece.

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 ...

“We’ve been doing new tracks that are really fantastic and we’ve just been getting into them,” Jimi Hendrix told Rolling Stone in February 1968, right after he and the Experience had played San ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. More than half a century since Jimi Hendrix left this world, after ...