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 ...

1. I'm working hard not to make this an album about her death. (But isn't this an album about her death? Wouldn't you want a way of understanding it?) Maybe a list of what she needed to say before she ...

On November 9, famed vocalist Janis Joplin will have her quadruple-platinum 1971 album Pearl re-released as a box set by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, which specializes in high-end reissues, in honor of ...

On the occasion of Janis Joplin's birthday (January 19), Legacy Recordings is proud to announce the upcoming release of The Pearl Sessions, a newly-curated definitive two-disc edition of Joplin's ...

Today would have been Port Arthur native Janis Joplin’s 67th birthday. Rocks Off started his day at the desk with her greatest-hits collection and all her work with Big Brother & the Holding Company ...

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the release of Janis Joplin’s album Pearl, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will host Janis Joplin Fan Weekend from Aug. 6 to Aug. 8. Joplin’s handwritten lyrics, ...

If anyone were going to have a posthumous party instead of a traditional, tear-filled wake, it would have been iconic rock singer Janis Joplin. Three weeks after she died of a drug overdose in a Los ...

, it may take awhile to realize what’s missing in the world premiere of Dianne Tucker’s new play at Theatre Three. Tucker has tapped into a rich idea about the bond between strong women singers ...

Katrina Chester was 12 years old when she discovered Janis Joplin. The native New Yorker was already "playing gigs'' when someone suggested she give the Port Arthur icon a listen. "That piqued my ...

San Geronimo, Calif. (Reuters) -- Sam Andrew will soon embark on what mildly might be called a challenging task: to replace his rock band's long-dead singer -- Janis Joplin. This time around, his band ...

Made for Pearl, the L.A.-based line founded by the late rocker's niece, features enough gold, velvet and bellbottoms fit for a true rock star. By Stephanie Chan Made for Pearl Collection Inset - P ...