Joplin gave the world many classic songs. Among them are “Kozmic Blues,” “Down On Me,” “Cry Baby,” and “Get It While You Can.” However, only one of these songs became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot ...

Just days before Janis Joplin died from a suspected heroin overdose on October 4, 1970, the legendary singer-songwriter breathed new life into a now enduring classic, “Me and Bobby McGee.” Upon its ...

The true inspiration behind 'Me and Bobbie McGee' remained quite humble about the whole thing, although it did make her a bit ...

More than 500,000 people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19 since the pandemic hit this country and the world just over a year ago. NPR is remembering some of those who lost their lives by listening ...

Funko has unveiled its latest Pop! collectibles and several legendary classic rock artists are getting immortalized. Two new figures honor Janis Joplin, the powerhouse singer behind such hits as ...

The far-flung performers didn't have much in common, beyond a debt of gratitude owed to a blues-belting rocker who died in 1970. In return, each of them left a piece of his or her heart onstage during ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stevie Nicks and Janis Joplin are both rock music icons. Nicks, whose career didn’t take off until joining Fleetwood Mac in 1974, venerated Joplin, who died in 1970. The two stars once had an awkward ...

Starring Mary Bridget Davies as the iconic rocker, the concert-style tribute show comes to New York after acclaimed regional engagements in the past two years. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Three ...

“To see this girl bring Janis to life was profound,” says Penelope Spheeris, the director of the upcoming Janis Joplin biopic The Gospel According to Janis, due in 2005. The “girl” in question is pop ...

While the song has warbled through many a famous throat, Janis Joplin made the tune her own. The rock goddess was far from the first to record the tune, but she was the first woman to take up the task ...