“Why would I want to own a studio? I’d rather be a client,” this was Walt Disney’s response to his company’s director of recording, Tutti Camarata when he recommended they set up a studio somewhere to ...

Janis Joplin made her mark on the 1960s but also influenced countless singers. “A Night With Janis Joplin” on Oct. 7 at Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet offers a look at the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s ...

After reading “Janis: Her Life and Music” (Simon & Schuster, $28.99), New York writer Holly George-Warren’s engrossing new biography of Janis Joplin, I’m left to wonder how the self-destructive singer ...

A new take on Cheap Thrills, the major-label debut from Big Brother & the Holding Company that introduced the world to Janis Joplin, will be released on Nov. 30. Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills consists of ...

If sandpaper and soul met a rose and birthed a child, that child would probably sound something like Janis Joplin. Joplin sang from the soul and with a voice hewn as if from sandpaper. And she lived a ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Nick Gravenites, the blues singer and guitarist for The Electric Flag and songwriter for Janis Joplin, has died, his family announced. He was 85. “I regret to inform all of you ...

Karly B. is a music news journalist at Collider, specializing in the Western and Asian music industries. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Media and Web Technology, she has dedicated part ...

Randy Myler thought he had a fairly well-rounded perspective on Janis Joplin, one that went beyond the dynamic onstage personality. Myler, a child of the ’60s and of Sebastopol, a small town about 50 ...

Peggy Caserta hopes to set the record straight about the death of her former love, singer Janis Joplin. A mainstay in the Haight-Ashbury scene during the 1960s, Caserta brushed elbows with fame when ...

Mary Bridget Davies has nailed the art of singing like the legendary Janis Joplin. “It was literally scientific,” Davies says. “I asked myself, ‘How does she do that? How?’ I spent years on and off ...

On September 30, 1970, a reporter asked Janis Joplin to explain her fearless sexuality. “It seems to bother a lot of women’s lib people that you’re kind of so upfront sexually,” Village Voice writer ...

When Janis Joplin was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room in 1970, the announced cause of death was—and remains–a heroin overdose. But one image haunted her close friend Peggy Caserta, who arrived ...