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With the 40th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival right around the corner, it seems that everyone and his mother is releasing merchandise to try to cash in on the nostalgia.

New Release Tuesday: Music releasing on June 30, 2009, includes Wilco's "Wilco ," a mellow-minded, melodic seventh album from the Chicago rock band, plus: "The Woodstock Experience," 10-CD, 40th-anniversary boxed set with the performances of Santana, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny Winter and Jefferson Airplane; The Builders and the ...

OWLS HEAD : Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experience . These five limited-edition collections have a nice idea behind them.

Jorma Kaukonen flashed a smile that revealed a gold front tooth as he recalled San Francisco in the 1960s and Woodstock.

Forty years after a generation-defining celebration of music, peace and free love called Woodstock took root in a muddy New York farm, archivists are reimagining, repackaging and rehyping the experience in spiffy 21st-century fashion.

Although rooted in humble origins - a way to summon hippies to their musical heroes - the rock poster has gathered enough legitimacy over the years to woo collectors and, now, command a documentary, American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art .

With the NFC market still as dormant as Jefferson Airplane , recent announcements about turning a mobile device into a credit card terminal using applications got me thinking.

Music has a way of transporting people back in time. And there was plenty of music during the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair.

June 9, 2:50 PM Add a Comment Feed Woodstock 1969 Marking the 40th anniversary of the first, and arguably the most notorious music festival of our time, Rhino is releasing a six-disc box set entitled Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm .

Not the sort of label to let any sort of potentially profitable anniversary or milestone pass it by, Rhino Records marshaled a six-disc collection of live recordings from the original 1969 Woodstock festival.

Ironically, what has been least examined up to now is the very thing that brought nearly half a million people together in 1969 - the music itself.

Hot Tuna Celebrates 50 years of friendship in Jamaica December 10-14 Hot Tuna Hot Tuna have recently announced that they will be playing this December in Jamaica.

Thirty-eight previously unreleased recordings - from groups such as the Who , the Grateful Dead , Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jefferson Airplane - will dot Rhino's " Woodstock - 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm " box set, which will be released on Aug.

Voodoo Chile is one of my favorite songs to listen to live. Also I love to listen to it on DVD and CD as well.

The band with the most disgusting name in all of music, Hot Tuna , is coming to stink up Revolution with Old School Freight Train on August 29.

As the motto for the spring-quarter concert of UCSB's Ensemble for Contemporary Music - at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall - Director Jeremy Haladyna has taken a line, something like an echo, from Chet Powers' Summer of Love anthem "Get Together": "Come on people, now - get together!" China-born composer Zhou Long had to drive a ...

Jorma Kaukonen plays songs from his album, Stars in My Crown . Set List "Heart Temporary" "A Life Well Lived" May 28, 2009 - As a founding member of both Jefferson Airplane and the still-active Hot Tuna , Jorma Kaukonen has simultaneously pushed boundaries of rock and preserved the traditions of blues and folk music.

1968 - The Beatles began work on their White Album . 1972 - Roxy Music played their first big prominent gig at England's Great Western Express Festival.

This is the last place I'd ever expected to be. I'm standing at the counter of Pitchfork Records, a music store in downtown Concord, with a stack of record albums in my arms.

No matter how twisted and complicated you think your family tree is, Mickey Thomas' band history has you beat.