Listen Live to WNEW.com
 
 

Jimi Hendrix

Video Classics: ‘Fire’…

Video Classics: ‘Fire’ – Jimi Hendrix

Top 10 Firsts For The…

Top 10 Firsts For The First Week Of The Year

Awesome Album Covers:…

Awesome Album Covers: Rickie Lee Jones And “Pop Pop”
Top 10

Top 10 Songs About Freedom

(Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)(Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

By | December 7, 2011
On this day 70 years ago, a swarm of 360 Japanese war planes descended on Pearl Harbor at 7:55AM and unleashed an assault on the U.S. Pacific fleet. The attack crippled the US outpost in Hawaii, rendering most of the planes and ships useless. Worse… Read more »
Rock Flashback

Rock Flashback: Eleven for 11/11

(Getty Images/Dan Kitwood)(Getty Images/Dan Kitwood)

By | November 11, 2011
Today is 11/11/11. Using Joel Whitburn's fabulous Top Pop Albums volume as a reference, we present the 11th charted album by 11 major stars, after the jump. Jump! Read more »
Rock Flashback

Rock Flashback: Dr. Timothy Leary

Dr. Timothy Leary and his wife Rosemary, 1967 (AFP/Getty Images)Dr. Timothy Leary and his wife Rosemary, 1967 (AFP/Getty Images)

By | November 4, 2011
If there were some kind of national word-association test, the name of Timothy Leary would likely elicit puzzled looks from younger people -- but those of a certain age would remember Leary well as one of the chief philosophers of the hippie era, the… Read more »
Rock Flashback

Rock Flashback: Lynyrd Skynyrd, 1977

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hall of Famers, 2005 (Getty Images/Scott Gries)Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hall of Famers, 2005 (Getty Images/Scott Gries)

By | October 21, 2011
Rock fans like to ponder the great what-ifs: what if Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Jim Croce or Buddy Holly or John Lennon had avoided their untimely deaths? What music might they have made? How might they have fit into the role of respected gray… Read more »
Rock Flashback

Rock Flashback: Huey Lewis and the News

(Getty Images/Doug Benc)(Getty Images/Doug Benc)

By | October 17, 2011
The artists we revere the most tend to be the most serious ones. Bob Dylan, poet of a generation. Jimi Hendrix, guitar god. John Lennon, philosopher. There's nothing wrong with that. Being taken seriously is something we all crave. But sometimes we… Read more »
Top 10

Top 10 Songs That Count …To 10

By | September 17, 2011
Fuzzy Dogs: A Classic Clip of Three Dog Night Singing "One" Is Caged Within This Post (YouTube) … Read more »
Forgotten Favorites

Forgotten Favorites: Criss-Crossing Through Crosstown Traffic On A YACHT

By | September 8, 2011
Talking Heads Getting Cross-Eyed at Wembley (YouTube) … Read more »
Top 10

Top 10 Rock And Roll Trios

By | August 26, 2011
Cream's Jack Bruce (YouTube) Three's a crowd? Hardly, in these cases. Our Top 10 Rock and Roll Trios (in their original or most famous configurations.) Let's Hear 'Em Read more »
The Producers

The Producers: John Burns

By | August 8, 2011
Tony Banks of Genesis (YouTube) As is the case with many successful producers, John Burns started his career in the music business as an engineer. Tell Me About Burns Read more »
The Producers

The Producers: Terry Brown

By | August 6, 2011
Long Lost Son of Yoko Ono? No, It's Just Geddy Lee, c. 1975 (YouTube) … Read more »