Janis Joplin News

Janis Joplin has an indelible image as a swaggering, boozing rock 'n' roll mama whose blues-based music was a raw outpouring of her angst.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is celebrating the brief, electrifying career of Janis Joplin with a week of events building up to a tribute concert.

Janis Joplin, circa 1969. "Her impact on artists who are still on the scene today, her skill as a vocalist and her deep knowledge and use of roots music put her at the forefront," says Lauren Onkey, the Rock Hall's vice president of education and public programs.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University will celebrate Janis Joplin--one of rock and roll's most passionate and influential artists--during the 14th annual American Music MastersA series Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin November 9-14. Events will be ...

Lucinda Williams, seen here performing at the 2003 Bonnaroo music festival in Manchester, Tenn., is headed to Cleveland for an American Music Masters salute to Janis Joplin.

ATTENION, CHEAP THRILL SEEKERS: Big Brother and the Holding Company has found a new following.

This was the autumn week in 1970 that Texas born singer Janis Joplin was found dead in her Hollywood apartment.

I'd been hustling a meager living in the coffee houses and psychedelic joints of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan when word spread of Janis Joplin's departure from Big Brother & the Holding Company.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. Janis Joplin was born on January 19th, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas.

An Interview with Author David Comfort on The Rock & Roll Book Of The Dead : Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Presley, Lennon, Cobain, and Garcia An Interview With Author David Comfort on The Rock & Roll Book Of The Dead Mike Ragogna : Since your new book discusses the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Kurt ...

1 excerpted from Jon Hammond's interview with founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin on HammondCast KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM San Francisco CA.

Today is Sunday, Oct. 4, the 277th day of 2009. There are 88 days left in the year.

On Oct. 4, 1931, the comic strip "Dick Tracy," created by Chester Gould, made its debut.

Thrifty Tunes 10.03.09: Pearl - Janis Joplin Posted by Paul Hollingsworth on 10.03.2009 The biggest voice in rock and roll came from the tiny frame of an outcast little girl from deep Texas.

In 1970, I was 20 years old. From my cozy efficiency apartment in Shadyside, I sat as a spectator, watching but not personally affected by all the turmoil over the Vietnam War.

It also has ZZ Top's 1933 Eliminator Ford and Roy Orbison's red 1967 Corvette convertible.

When rock star Stevie Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, she was not exactly on the "Edge of Seventeen" . In fact, Stevie Nicks was 27 years old when she got her big break.

Zooey Deschanel has stated that the Janis Joplin biopic 'The Gospel According to Janis' is on the verge of flatlining.

I have wanted to interview Elliot Tiber for years because I have loved everything about Woodstock - especially the world's first woman rock star, Janis Joplin - since I was an ugly-duckling teenager in high school.

Two weeks after Woodstock, there were three more days of peace, love and music, and it all took place in Lewisville.