Today in Music History for Dec. 21: In 1672, Benjamin Schmolck, German Lutheran clergyman and prolific hymn writer, was born. Though a busy pastor, he found time to pen 900 hymns, the best remembered ...

Modern festivals can't compete. We look back at 12 legendary Boomer music festivals, from Woodstock to Wattstax, that defined ...

Woodley is set to star in and produce Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can, which will tell the life story of the iconic singer, who died at age 27 in 1970 One of Shailene Woodley's upcoming roles is ...

Shailene Woodley tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that learning to sing for a Janis Joplin biopic is not the easiest task "Singing is very scary. It's very vulnerable," the actress says Woodley ...

There will simply never be another Janis Joplin. Growing up an outcast in Port Arthur, Texas, she continues to beguile generations more than five decades after her untimely death. Unfortunately, the ...

When Janis Joplin died at 27 on October 4, 1970, she left behind a groundbreaking musical legacy. But behind her powerful voice was reportedly a fragile soul who spoke of a yearning for "love" in a ...

A previously unseen photo of Port Arthur’s Janis Joplin will soon be on display in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. The black & white portrait of Joplin is ...

Pink performed a couple of classic rock covers at FireAid on Wednesday evening. After performing her original 2017 hit "What About Us," she transitioned into a cover of Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby ...

Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer considered the premier female blues vocalist of the Sixties; her raw, powerful and uninhibited singing style, combined with her turbulent and emotional ...

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 ...