Word: hendrix
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...since T-Pain started to don that Mad Hatter’s top hat and those digital stunna shades, he has truly been on some other stuff. The second video for his new album, “Chopped N Skrewed,” is “The Jimi Hendrix Experience” gone circus-digital almost like—hmm...well, the first video off the album, except replace Lil’ Wayne with Ludacris. With one touch of a magic button on the shades, we are transported to a techno-psychedelic dream world where, as usual, T-Pain...
...remarkable. Each song reverberates with a deeply rooted local color and ethnic identity, with a language and tone that sharply separate the music from anything being made in the West. But there is also the undeniable presence of late-60s British blues and the more psychedelic work of Hendrix. For those used to high-quality recording, production value, and lyrical and musical transparency, this record may initially be alienating. The reward, however, only increases with every listen. For many Americans, Africa is still the Dark Continent in many ways; news networks tell us of famine, poverty, disease, and genocide...
...recorded Society's Child, a song she'd written about an interracial romance. It raced up the charts and caused an immediate firestorm. Ian soon became pals with some of the era's greatest musical stars, including Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. While she was fortunate not to meet their fates - both died of drug overdoses - Ian had her own tumultuous life. She attempted suicide, went broke, survived an abusive marriage, wrote and performed another megahit, At Seventeen, and became a lesbian activist. Ian, 57, recounts this and more in her new memoir, Society's Child (Tarcher/Penguin). TIME reached...
...about Jimi Hendrix...
...despite the Jimi Hendrix playing on the dome's stereo and the empty mini-kegs of Heineken, this isn't polar summer camp. The scientific work being done at NEEM is as hard as it is necessary. About a mile (1.6 km) outside the main camp, Danish scientists Steffen Bo Hansen and Sigfus Johann Johnsen drill holes 70 meters down. The ice beneath NEEM is more than a mile and a half (2.5 km) thick, the result of over 130,000 years of accumulated snow. Tiny air bubbles from the year the snow fell are trapped in layers of frost...