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 ...

The early 1970s changed music. Artists of the day took what the 1960s had created and built on it, reshaping and reimagining ...

Joplin gave the world many classic songs. Among them are “Kozmic Blues,” “Down On Me,” “Cry Baby,” and “Get It While You Can.” However, only one of these songs became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot ...

Janis Joplin thrilled rock fans with her soulful music. As she burst onto the scene in the late 1960s, she was known for songs that were a unique mix of rock, folk, and blues. After her death in 1970, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new ranking has turned the spotlight back on one of rock’s most electrifying voices, celebrating the “Queen of Psychedelic Soul” as one of the greatest female leaders the genre has ever seen. Joplin ...

Janis Joplin's siblings reflect on growing up with a budding music legend, and why they've decided to share her personal archives in a revealing and enlightening new book The notion of overnight rock ...

Janis Joplin raced onstage at the Hollywood Bowl on a September night in 1969 with the urgency of someone fleeing a burning building, her long reddish hair blowing in the wind. She slowed only to grab ...