Can a song change the world? Popular music has always been looked on as something of a disposable pleasure: reflective of its times, sure, but meant to be played among…
Jefferson Airplane
We’re all driving up to that same rest stop. Seeing those who aren’t going back out on the road ever again is inevitable.
A new compilation from Omnivore shines a light on an unjustly forgotten soul singer
What do Fox & Woman and Country Joe McDonald have in common? Hint: it has nothing to do with Woodstock…
Dave Steed reflects back on the time he spent listening to the Jefferson Airplane reunion record instead of the Jam. Dumb ass.
How could Mickey Thomas get away with adultery? Quite slickly, apparently, as Popdose’s Rob Smith explores in his Death by Power Ballad column on Jefferson Starship’s “No Way Out.”
In 1970, the Dead threw the music world a curveball. Workingman’s Dead was a complete musical departure for the band, and among their new fans was Ken Shane.
Scott Malchus pens a bittersweet farewell to famed photographer Jim Marshall, who passed away this week.
Hungering for an alternate reality in which Mickey Thomas is clubbed to death by Grace Slick, CAPTAIN VIDEO! is back from the 1980th Dimension!
Already a treasure trove for fans of live music, Wolfgang’s Vault is about to get bigger and better. Find out how in COO Eric Johnson’s interview with Ken Shane.
To quote Richard M. Nixon (it seems appropriate for the era), “let me make one thing perfectly clear” — There is no Jefferson Airplane without singer Marty Balin, anymore than…
Hippies, mud, and music! Woodstock celebrates its 40th anniversary this weekend, and we’re celebrating with a day full of festival-themed content.
There’s a well-known saying that if you think Woodstock was great, you weren’t there. The point is that the mud, drugs, lack of food and water, and often bad music…