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 ...

Janis Joplin's legacy has long been tied to timeless ballads like "Me and Bobby McGee," but a new ranking is shining a spotlight on a different side of the rock icon. Joplin, who rose to prominence ...

Though she passed away in 1970, Janis Joplin’s voice is still raging into the horizon. Growling and angelic, the Port Arthur, Texas-born singer’s style and range were unparalleled in her time and ...

A rare abstract painting by Bob Dylan from circa 1968, unveiled recently, will be a centerpiece at the Marvels of Modern Music auction hosted by Boston-based RR Auction.

Janis Joplin was born on January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas. Sadly, she died of a heroin overdose at the young age of 27, in Los Angeles, California in 1970. In between those dates, though, she ...

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 ...