The track is widely ranked among the greatest — and even top — rock songs of all time, thanks to a groundbreaking riff that reshaped guitar music.

On this day (March 17) in 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience released “Purple Haze” as the second single from Are You Experienced in the United Kingdom. The song would later become a top-five hit and ...

Jimi Hendrix was many things—a talented musician, an experimental artist, a style icon, an activist, a philosopher. But those who knew him well saw another side of him. Hendrix, who died in 1970 at ...

Jimi Hendrix wasn’t just a rock star. He was a full-blown experience. Hendrix once told NPR, "When I die, I want people to just play my music, go wild and freak out, do anything they want to do.” More ...