Issue #1416 (2025 Black History Month Special / Jimi Hendrix)
HITS’ 2025 Black History Month special follows the trajectory of an in surrectionary, insubordinate, inquisitive, irresistible musical force-from work camps and front porches to juke joints and after hours clubs to gyms and auditoriums to the global stage. This shapeshifting, caterwauling, duck-walking, amp-smashing, taboo-shattering phenomenon shook the world, and in these pages, you'll meet the jump-blues giants, unsung psychedelic visionaries, punk pugilists and other vibrant characters who plotted its ever-changing.
In an issue exploring rock & roll as Black music, you could hardly find a more fitting cover subject than Jimi Hendrix. It's well known that he reinvented the electric guitar during his brief, blazing stint in the limelight, expanding its sonic capabilities and expressive palette thousandfold. Yet only the middle of his story has informed his legend.
HITS’ 2025 Black History Month special follows the trajectory of an in surrectionary, insubordinate, inquisitive, irresistible musical force-from work camps and front porches to juke joints and after hours clubs to gyms and auditoriums to the global stage. This shapeshifting, caterwauling, duck-walking, amp-smashing, taboo-shattering phenomenon shook the world, and in these pages, you'll meet the jump-blues giants, unsung psychedelic visionaries, punk pugilists and other vibrant characters who plotted its ever-changing.
In an issue exploring rock & roll as Black music, you could hardly find a more fitting cover subject than Jimi Hendrix. It's well known that he reinvented the electric guitar during his brief, blazing stint in the limelight, expanding its sonic capabilities and expressive palette thousandfold. Yet only the middle of his story has informed his legend.
HITS’ 2025 Black History Month special follows the trajectory of an in surrectionary, insubordinate, inquisitive, irresistible musical force-from work camps and front porches to juke joints and after hours clubs to gyms and auditoriums to the global stage. This shapeshifting, caterwauling, duck-walking, amp-smashing, taboo-shattering phenomenon shook the world, and in these pages, you'll meet the jump-blues giants, unsung psychedelic visionaries, punk pugilists and other vibrant characters who plotted its ever-changing.
In an issue exploring rock & roll as Black music, you could hardly find a more fitting cover subject than Jimi Hendrix. It's well known that he reinvented the electric guitar during his brief, blazing stint in the limelight, expanding its sonic capabilities and expressive palette thousandfold. Yet only the middle of his story has informed his legend.