The Police were an excellent band, not least because they had Stewart Copeland - a former prog guy - playing drums from the back of the band.

When you think about the circus, you might imagine aerialists gliding through the air, acrobats flipping across the stage, juggling clowns and a top hat-wearing ringmaster keeping it all together. But ...

Jimi Hendrix recorded enough material for a hundred lifetimes during his short span on Earth, but which of his unreleased songs are the best?

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we look back at the explosive 1967 debut from the short ...

May 1969: Two hundred years after Father Junípero Serra founded the first California mission on Presidio Hill, San Diego celebrated its bicentennial. The Ferry still shuttled passengers and cargo ...

Sony Music has lost its appeal in the long-running claim on the copyright and performance rights of 1960s guitar legend Jimi Hendrix ... bass guitarist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell.

(Marjut Valakivi/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The estates of Jimi Hendrix’s former bandmates — bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell — can proceed to trial with their ...

If you asked those fortunate enough to see Jimi Hendrix perform live ... The show saw the return of original drummer Mitch Mitchell and featured Hendrix’s army pal, and Band of Gypsy’s bassist ...

When Jimi Hendrix plays, the house comes down ... He tells you about the trio, about working with Mitch Mitchell the drummer and Noel Redding on bass, and how tough it gets sometimes.

As the drummer in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mitch Mitchell was one of the greatest and most influential rock drummers of the 1960s. Mitchell's style was a blend of the abandon of someone like Keith ...

Dyed-in-the-wool cynics, Jimi Hendrix fans or not ... This particular version arrives sans the percussion drummer Mitch Mitchell added later on (for The Cry Of Love (Reprise, 1971) and thereby ...

If you were to write a science fiction novel set in the year 1967, it would be hard to imagine a more captivating cosmic messenger than Jimi Hendrix ... while Mitch Mitchell stuck around for ...