Singer-songwriter-musician Janis Ian celebrates her 74th birthday today. For most of those years, 60 of them in fact, she has ...

43.2 x 29.5 cm. (17 x 11.6 in.) ...

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 ...

Melissa Cross has been teaching California rock stars and celebrities how to scream for the past three decades.

March 2025. We had the great honor to talk with a very talented musician: Peter Albin. He is most well-known as the bass ...

Midnight is approaching in LA, and outside the Palomino Club in North Hollywood, the members of Canned Heat and their entourage are kicking back in the yard. It’s April 4, 1981. The band have just ...

It’s 11:30 a.m. on a foggy Thursday morning, and I’m hunched over a laptop in my closet, trying to meow like an old, decrepit cat. In the corner of my screen, my vocal coach, 68-year-old Melissa Cross ...

Anyone would count themselves lucky to be within a few inches of Robert Plant, but sometimes the greatest in the world need to be knocked down a few pegs.

Singer/songwriter Janis Ian will always have a special place in my heart ... How does it feel to hear Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, and many others singing your praises? It's pretty splendid, I will say.

Janis Ian circa 1970s (left) and in 2023.

But she did a little singing as well, performing live here ... When McBroom heard producers were looking for songs for a Janis Joplin-inspired movie, she decided to submit “The Rose.” ...