jimi hendrix

Some songs make an artist instantly recognisable. Such as hearing the rebirth and re-release of Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill'. We hear that song, and we know it is Kate, it has become a signature song for the artist, one which…

These Wheels, Papa George’s latest album, is positively album of the year material. As an artist who is known for solid albums and incredible performances, it is no surprise that he would churn out such an amazing project. From start to…

GNL Zamba is a Ugandan musician who grew up surrounded by influences like Fela Kuti, Jimi Hendrix, Ice Cube, and Gil Scott-Heron. It’s a mixed bag of distinct artists that’s hard to imagine united under a single sound, but that’s what Zamba…

The energy is loud, large, and uncompromising, the vocals dance between melodic and sweet, and the themes are grandiose and unabashedly in-your-face. It’s an intriguing combo couched in punk rock, but there’s a sweeping finesse to the…

How many of this summer’s music festivals will be remembered? Probably none. Woodstock, August 1969, however, has its historic place in culture (or counterculture) assured; an ‘Aquarian Exposition of Peace and Music’ as the poster’s dove…

The welcoming flame once burned brightly on the Statue of Liberty, today it slowly loses its glow and darkness descends. The word freedom is locked within a cage of shrouded racism, the lessons of the past fading. We live in an era where…

Two of the most famous photographs of Elvis are the cover of his debut album and a shot of him onstage, where he leans into the microphone, doused in sweat, his face white against the blackness of the background. On the cover of that first…

The idea of horror in music can be traced back to 1956. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins released his greatest commercial success in 'I Put a Spell on You'. Hitherto, Hawkins had been an average blues singer and the song was intended as a ballad, but…

You listen to a band, an artist, musical legends and wonder what it would be like to see them perform in concert? You think here in Ireland that opportunities to see these may not have come along, but they often did. Ireland has always…

Fifty years of one James Marshall Hendrix, and what can we possibly add to the conversation that hasn’t already been said? Haven’t critics, fans, guitarists, songwriters, producers, and fanatical cultists gushed enough? Absolutely not, and…