Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane typified countercultural hippiedom, much to the chagrin of classically trained songwriters ...
“We are the people our parents warned us about,” Grace Slick yelled in the 60s. As the bluff lead singer with San Francisco band Jefferson Airplane, no-one embodied the free-thinking spirit of the ...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Jorma Kaukonen will celebrate his 85th birthday with a four-city U.S. tour featuring special guests ...
At the time, Jefferson Airplane had been together for two years and had broken out with “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love” when the jeans company asked them to do a commercial. The band, who wore ...
One of the funniest “rock life” stories I’ve heard is when China Kantner Isler — who I first became aware of when she was a VJ on MTV back in the ’80s — told me what it was like being a teenager and ...
John Barbata, who played drums for such groups as The Turtles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and both Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, has died at the age of 79. No cause of death was given, ...
Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” might be one of the most famous adaptations of Carroll’s Alice books in any medium. While I find Alice in Wonderland charming, many readers find it a bit creepy.
The 1960s was a decade of many changes. Musically, the expansion of folk music evolved rapidly into a diverse variety of ...
Molly Tuttle has released her latest batch of new music, the six-song EP, Into the Wild. Today’s release follows the musician’s Grammy-award-winning and critically acclaimed collection, City of Gold, ...
There will be a memorial service for Bob Harvey at Allen Chapel at 2 p.m. Sunday Lancaster resident Bob Harvey was in the middle of the 60's psychedelic music scene in 1960's San Francisco LANCASTER − ...
Jorma Kaukonen has announced the “cresting wave” era of his career. The musician, known for his singular fingerstyle guitar ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Marty Balin, a co-founder of the legendary rock band Jefferson Airplane whose soulful tenor gave the band its distinctive sound, has died at the age of 76, his representative ...