The San Francisco music scene was bursting with magic during the Sixties and Seventies, from the rise of radio DJs and eye-catching poster artists to Rolling Stone magazine and a number of iconic acts ...

Fronting the group now is Cathy Richardson, who once played Janis Joplin in the original Off-Broadway production of Love, ...

Emmy nominee Shailene Woodley will play Janis Joplin in an upcoming film about the rock musician’s life, making her the latest of many actresses that have been attached to play Joplin in various ...

For many in the 1960s, there was no bigger star out there than singer Janis Joplin who helped to define a generation of music ...

NEW YORK - CIRCA 1968: Singer Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company perform onstage at the Fillmore East circa 1968 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Julie Snow/Michael Ochs ...

Anyone who heard Janis Joplin's knockout performance on Big Brother and the Holding Company's 1968 album Cheap Thrills knew she wouldn't be sticking around for long. Her voice, her charisma, just ...

In 1969, Newsweek bestowed this honorific on Janis Joplin: "The first female superstar of rock music." It's also a claim that Holly George-Warren sets out to prove in Janis, her new biography of the ...

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 ...

Saturday would have been Janis Joplin's 70th birthday. Joplin was dubbed the first queen of rock 'n' roll, and her voice is singular. She was rough around the edges, vulnerable and charismatic, and ...

Every profession and industry has its particular rite of passage. In the corporate world, it might be making that first big sale. In education, it could very well be changing that first student’s life ...