Rock icon Janis Joplin grew up in Port Arthur, Texas. The music of Janis Joplin is perhaps associated more often with places like San Francisco or maybe Woodstock than it is southeast Texas. But ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. There is no dispute that Janis Joplin is regarded as one of the greatest ...

It’s been nearly half a century since her tragic death at 27 from an accidental heroin overdose, but Janis Joplin’s life and music are still hugely resonant. In her landmark new biography, Janis, ...

All the way back in 2004, P!nk was slated to star in a Janis Joplin biopic from director Penelope Spheeris that never saw the light of day. So you can count on Howard Stern to get her reflecting on ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. In 1969, Newsweek bestowed this honorific on Janis Joplin: “The first female ...

In 1969, Newsweek bestowed this honorific on Janis Joplin: "The first female superstar of rock music." It's also a claim that Holly George-Warren sets out to prove in Janis, her new biography of the ...

In the 1960s, Janis Joplin was an icon of the counterculture, a female rock star at a time when rock was an all-boys' club. "At that point in time there weren't too many women taking center stage," ...

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 ...