From Bessie Smith’s blues grit to Tina Turner’s fire, these two singers helped shape Janis Joplin’s unforgettable vocal style.

The Grammys have had surprising winners, acceptance-speech crashes, and impromptu performances that have become iconic moments in music history.

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The Stonewall National Museum and Archives has a history dating back to 1973. Its founder, Mark N. Silber, began collecting ...

This might be the most musically adventurous and ambitious album of the blues man’s long and storied career. The album ...

A leading U.K. politician has paid tribute to late Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins, but not without a bit of trickery. Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage is one of the public figures on Cameo, the site ...

Michele Singer Reiner was the guiding force in the lives of her family, stressing the need to help and respect one another. By Talya Minsberg For this story, Talya Minsberg spoke with 10 of Michele ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Lizzy Caplan had her breakthrough role in 2004 as goth girl Janis Ian in "Mean Girls." Since then, she's been nominated for two Emmys ("Masters of Sex," "Fleishman Is in Trouble"), and ...

It’s hard to imagine anyone but Lizzy Caplan playing the iconic, lovable goth Janis Ian in the 2004 hit comedy “Mean Girls.” Her biting one-liners and fiercely loyal friendship with Damian defined a ...

Lizzy Caplan almost wasn’t Lindsay Lohan’s feisty BFF Janis Ian in Mean Girls, which, indeed, would not have been fetch. In a new interview on the Podcrushed podcast, the actor opened up about her ...

Lizzy Caplan nearly didn’t play Janis Ian in “Mean Girls.” The actress, 43, appeared on the latest episode of Penn Badgley’s “Podcrushed” podcast and revealed how she “fought” to be cast in the ...