Today in Music History for Jan. 19: ...

Janis Joplin's final and posthumous release, 'Pearl', still echoes the pain felt by the famed singer decades after her untimely death.

For many in the 1960s, there was no bigger star out there than singer Janis Joplin who helped to define a generation of music lovers. She passed away before her time but made history while she was ...

Janis Joplin belted out her desire for a Mercedes-Benz in song, but Stevie Nicks wanted no part of one. That’s Stevie Nicks, the 11-month-old mixed-breed pup adopted from an animal shelter ...

He credits Janis Joplin with making his show a destination for hip new music stars. “Janis Joplin was I believe the first (to appear). She was on a number of times, and I think she was the one ...

The music entrepreneur, who later managed Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Gordon Lightfoot, among others, recognized Yarrow’s talent and told him that he wanted to make him part of a folk trio.

After the Tet Offensive in December 1968, U.S. involvement in Vietnam exploded and at one point some 33,000 soldiers trained ...

won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz" from Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz," a tongue-in-cheek takedown of materialism. It all seemed so long ago until last Sunday, when I ventured out to the multiplex ...

and Mariah Carey the singer and Janis Joplin the stylist. Defining “stylist” as a kind term for someone who can’t sing misses the point. Iglesias was expressive and captivating, but I don ...

Soon after returning to New York, he met impresario Albert Grossman, who would go on to manage Dylan, Janis Joplin and others and who at the time was looking to put together a group that would ...