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From Linkin Park to Limp Bizkit, nu-metal is back but without the cargo pants and casual misogyny

IN FOCUS: Nu-metal was once shorthand for terrible fashion and even worse music. Now, with a new Linkin Park album and Limp Bizkit announcing their most extensive tour in years, this genre once considered the nadir for rock’n’roll has made a surprising comeback, writes Ed Power

The Independent UK

“He offered me Jimi’s guitar and then disappeared!”: How Lenny Kravitz almost got his hands on Hendrix’s Woodstock Strat

Hendrix’s drummer called Lenny “the best thing since Jimi”

MusicRadar

Aging and ailing, 'Message Tree' at Woodstock concert site is reluctantly cut down

A tree at the legendary 1969 Woodstock festival used by concertgoers as a sort of message board has been cut down

The Independent UK

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“This instrument was such an incredibly special guitar to Jimi”: Jimi Hendrix’s iconic ‘Izabella’ Woodstock Strat is going on the Experience Hendrix tour – and it’s being played by the guitar heroes involved

Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Eric Johnson have both already played the iconic Strat, which was one of the last guitars Hendrix played before his death in 1970

Guitar World

“I go to the urinal and I feel a wet stream going down my left leg.” The night ex-Beatle John Lennon peed on one of the men who launched Woodstock festival

Music business legend Artie Kornfeld recalls the night that John Lennon peed on him during his Double Fantasy recording sessions

Louder

"Baby boomers and bikers are eighty per cent of our audience, but we're seeing more and more young people": Fito de la Parra looks back on 60 years of Canned Heat

Canned Heat drummer Fito de la Parra has survived changing trends, the deaths of all his original bandmates, and more than 40 personnel changes

Louder

DNC's Woodstock scares Donald Trump

The hippies and conservatives in Chicago have picked their party

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“Superstar Guitars showcases the most famous six-strings in the history of music, in exquisite detail”: Hendrix’s Woodstock Strat, Kurt Cobain’s Mustang, the Exile On Mainstream Burst and more iconic guitars to feature in stunning new book

Eleanor Jane has photographed the world's greatest guitarists and their instruments, and her new book collects her images of the guitars that changed pop culture and the stories behind them

MusicRadar

"It was an unfortunate incident which has been exaggerated and turned into folklore": How contractual differences between Aerosmith and Metallica at Woodstock 1994 came to blows

Three More Days of Peace & Music? Not quite

Metal Hammer

"This sort of seat-of-the-pants indulgence would never fit the corporate cosiness of today’s major festivals": Ten Years After showcase the solos on Woodstock 1969

Of its time and on vinyl, the six-song set that made Ten Years After US festival titans

Louder

"A corporate jack-off music festival disguised as some kind of important cultural event for the young generation": The grimy legacy of Woodstock 1994

The 25th anniversary edition of the Woodstock Festival was supposed to revive memories of the original. It'll be remembered for mud.

Metal Hammer

Amazon Poised To Benefit From AI After Nvidia's Conference, Analyst Says

An Amazon stock analysts expects AWS to benefit from partnerships with Nvidia announced at the chipmakers AI Woodstock event.

Investors Business Daily

50 Interesting Historical Pictures That Might Teach You Something New About Our World

Time keeps marching on, and we're powerless to stop it. However, people have been doing a good job of capturing fleeting moments through photographs, allowing us to relive memorable events or experience ones we might have missed. The post 50 Interesting Historical Pictures That Might Teach You Something New About…

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“I had heard how turbulent this band was. All this fighting over control and power”: Don Felder lived through the best and worst of the Eagles, and came out the other side

Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder went from a dirt poor childhood to one of the biggest groups in history – and survived it all

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Metal Hammer

“We’ll lead our own pack!” The checkered story of Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff, from festival chaos to a star-studded music video

Connected forever with the anarchy of Woodstock ’99 and a music video featuring Snoop Dogg and Korn, Limp Bizkit’s cathartic banger has the most complicated legacy of any nu metal song

The Guardian - UK

Melanie obituary

American singer who became a star at the Woodstock festival and had a string of hits including Brand New Key and Ruby Tuesday

Louder

“You hear bombs, a baby being born, an eagle flying, you hear things that people don’t normally hear”: how Jimi Hendrix pulled back from the brink of disaster at Woodstock and sealed his legend

The story of Jimi Hendrix’s iconic appearance at 1969’s Woodstock festival

Evening Standard

Isle of Wight Festival 2024: Date, headliners, and how to get tickets

The festival is widely considered to be Europe's Woodstock

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Summer of Soul to Little Richard: I Am Everything – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Forget Woodstock! Questlove’s gobsmacking documentary shows the true greatest festival of 1969. Plus, an eye-opening film about a rock’n’roll legend

The Independent UK

Movie Review: Documentary 'Carlos' is a loving, respectful portrait of guitar god Santana

The documentary “Carlos” is a traditional linear tale, tracing rock icon Carlos Santana’s formative years in Tijuana, Mexico, his set at Woodstock, his dive into spirituality and his triumphant 1999 “Supernatural” album

Salon

What does it mean to be "granola"?

From Woodstock to the "granola girl aesthetic," here's how a breakfast cereal became a whole identity

The Conversation

From Burning Man to Woodstock to Fyre Festival: what turns a festival into a disaster?

This year’s Burning Man Festival in Nevada has been washed out and 70,000 attendees are stuck in the mud. Summer rains have hit its desert location and, as we regularly find in the Australian Outback, when fine and dusty desert soils get wet, they are like glue. Transport becomes near…

Louder

Woodstock Festival: 50 mind-blowing facts about the original celebration of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

The Woodstock Festival became part of rock'n'roll folklore as half a million hippies descended on a farm in upstate New York in 1969

Metal Hammer

"There definitely will be an end, but I don’t see it any time right now." Rumours of Sevendust's demise have been greatly exaggerated:

Sevendust frontman Lajon Witherspoon answers questions on zombies, Woodstock 99, Beyoncé and why he's proud to be nu metal

Metal Hammer

Remember the time The Simpsons took a hilarious potshot at Woodstock 99?

By 2000, the Simpsons was running out of steam, but this gag - featuring a Limp Bizkit banger - was on-point

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