Before there was Woodstock, there was Monterey International Pop Festival. A groundbreaking moment in music history, the festival took over the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California, in ...

Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails performance at the 1994 25th anniversary installment of Woodstock was No. 7 on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's fan vote for Top 10 Festiva Moments of All Time. Jimi ...

When Hendrix met Monkeemania, the result was a surreal, strangely touching culture clash – and the essence of 1967's ...

After recording his debut album and making his name in England, Jimi Hendrix set his sights on America. His big moment arrived in mid-June ’67, when Hendrix was to perform on the final night of the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jimi Hendrix's breakthrough performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, when he transfixed the American rock cognoscenti with a set that climaxed with the immolation of ...

Herm Edwards has made plenty of history in his football playing and coaching career and is still doing so at Arizona State. But like for Forrest Gump and really everyone, history sometimes comes to ...

The incendiary end to Jimi Hendrix's iconic show at 1967's Monterey Pop Fest will be memorialized in bobblehead form with the Jimi Hendrix Live at Monterey bobblehead. The official collectible is soon ...

When American music festivals are bandied about, Woodstock scores most of the attention. However, the Monterey Pop Festival laid down the template 55 years ago. “Monterey was the nexus,” Rolling Stone ...

More than 20,000 people camped out on the football field at Monterey Peninsula College during the Monterey International Pop Music Festival of June 16-18, 1967, when Jimi Hendrix famously burned his ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s been more than 54 years since Jimi Hendrix memorably ...

MONTEREY — It begins to sound like the plot of one of those absurdly gargantuan Hollywood musicals. They are sitting around John Phillips’s living room in the highest holiest Hollywood, when suddenly ...