Fifty years ago today Janis Joplin was three months gone, but her status as an ageless popular music icon was just beginning with the release of “Pearl.” The album sounds bracing even a half century ...

Janis Joplin's siblings reflect on growing up with a budding music legend, and why they've decided to share her personal archives in a revealing and enlightening new book The notion of overnight rock ...

Janis Joplin’s raw, powerful voice was shaped by blues legend Bessie Smith and the electrifying stage presence of Tina Turner ...

Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, singer Janis Joplin left behind a significant musical legacy in a remarkably short amount of time. The Texas-born singer became a superstar after a ...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will honor Janis Joplin in November as part of its annual American Music Masters Series. The week-long program, which starts on November 9, is titled Kozmic ...

It's not going out on too thin of a limb to say that Big Brother and the Holding Company's Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 is for the hardest of hardcore Janis Joplin fans only. The concert album ...

More than half a century after her death, Janis Joplin‘s legacy continues to loom large. Her estate kicked off this year with a 50th-anniversary edition of Pearl, while a children’s book featuring the ...

Longtime music manager Bennett Glotzer, who helped guide the careers of such legendary artists as Janis Joplin and Frank Zappa, died on July 9 in Los Angeles due to complications from heart disease.

The Jim Irsay Collection, based in Indianapolis, has acquired a Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar owned and played by Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Janis Joplin. Until recently on loan to the Rock & Roll Hall ...

Janis JoplinThe Pearl SessionsLegacy Records2010 Pearl was vocalist Janis Joplin's valedictory and most fully realized recording. She never lived to see it released, dying of a heroin overdose the ...

Janis Joplin has passed into the realm of legend: an outwardly brash and inwardly vulnerable personality who possessed one of the most passionate voices in rock history. She is beloved around the ...

One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s. By Richard Sandomir Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ...