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Far-flung admirers give Janis Joplin her due in American Music Masters tribute concert
Lucinda Williams performs Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, during the Janis Joplin tribute concert at PlayhouseSquare's State Theatre.
The Rock Hall's American Music Masters Series looks at Janis Joplin's legacy
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.
Journalist Jeffery Sheler provides a probing biography of the two Rick Warrens. David Neff posted 11/10/2009 10:33AM L ike many teenagers, the adolescent Rick Warren wanted to be a rock star.
Janis Joplin's brief music career celebrated with Rock...
In this July 29, 1968 file photo, singer Janis Joplin performs at the Newport Folk Festival with her band Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Taking Classic Rock from The Vault to the iPod
Fleetwood Mac, Boston, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, even Motorhead: All classic, all have put on fantastic concerts.
Irving Penn Portraits will open at the National Portrait Gallery in February 2010
A major photographic exhibition Irving Penn Portraits will open at the National Portrait Gallery in February 2010.
First Irving Penn Museum Exhibition in the UK for 20 Years Announced
In this magazine cover released by the Conde Nast Archive, the April 1, 1950 cover of "Vogue" with photography by Irving Penn, is shown.
An international buzz band upon the release of 2007's What's the Time Mr. Wolf? , their steamrolling debut set of garage blues and soulful punk, Noisettes seemed poised to carve out a long career as the 21st century's answer to Janis Joplin's work with Big Brother and the Holding Company.
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Big Brother and the Holding Company coming to Rock Hall and Beachland ...
ATTENION, CHEAP THRILL SEEKERS: Big Brother and the Holding Company has found a new following.
Heroes of Woodstock gather 40 years later for tour
To hear Sam Andrew tell it, this weekend's Heroes of Woodstock show at Spotlight 29 Casino is the brainchild of three managers.
Janis Joplin -- Janis: Memphis Meltdown
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.
New listings Mark Schulz and Point of Grace "Come Alive Tour." 7 p.m. Nov. 5, St.
October 4th, 1970 - Janis Joplin dies of a drug overdose in Hollywood
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.
Peter Albin of Big Brother and The Holding Company on HammondCast Show KYOU Radio
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.
Blu-Ray Review: The Complete Monterey Pop Festival -- Criterion Collection
Two years before Woodstock, the first rock festival kicked off the Summer of Love and a master director was there to film it.
The Rock History Report for September 28th, 2009
1972 - David Bowie sold out New York's Carnegie Hall. It was his first sell out in America.
Jefferson Starship concert in Baton Rouge benefits addiction-recovery efforts
Jefferson Starship is just one of the groups poised to rock a benefit concert as part of the 20th annual National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Day at 8 p.m. Saturday at the RiverCenter for Performing Arts in Baton Rouge.
the Complete Monterey Pop Festival (Blu-Ray)...
Permalink: Studio: The Criterion Collection Year: 1968 Cast: The Mamas and The Papas, Canned Heat, Simon and Garfunkel, Hugh Masekela, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Country Joe and the Fish, Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MG's, The Mar-Keys, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Ravi Shankar ...
Chamber ball will be a blockbuster
Patrick Swayze's funeral was rudely interrupted by Kanye West, who grabbed the microphone from the presiding pastor to declare that "Michael Jackson's funeral was better." SOMEBODY TO LOVE Once again, chamber president Marty Salloum has pulled off a musical block-buster for the annual Chamber of Commerce Ball -- an event that has brought us Randy ...
Marin was hanging on the telephone 30 years ago this week. In the waning days of summer '79, the county known as ground zero for such psychedelic rock acts as Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company had finally succumbed to the booty-shaking charms of Donna Summer, Chic and the Trammps.
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