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

Maria Muldaur has had her fair share of musical adventures. The Mill Valley resident has opened for the Grateful Dead, been a ...

Long before superstardom existed, Bessie Smith showed the world what it meant to be a legend. Born into poverty, she turned ...

Not every song in 2025 was a winner. Some were overproduced, some were overhyped and some just left us wondering who signed off on them. Here are five songs that, for better or worse, stood out for ...

Last month Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group struck a licensing deal with an AI music streaming startup called Klay, meaning tens of thousands of songs can now legally be used ...

Shinedown's Brent Smith tells PEOPLE their new song, "Searchlight," is "a love letter in a lot of ways to Americana and what we grew up on" “The original take of the song was a bit more of a power ...

Haiku, the traditional Japanese poetry form often used to capture a single moment in time, became the means through which author, president of the Haiku Society of America and Instructor of Thompson ...

More than 270 photographs show expressions of gender and sexuality across two centuries. Works by well-known photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and Edmund Teske hang ...

ENID, Okla. — Residents attending Enid Chautauqua on Friday, June 13, 2025, learned about the trials and tribulations of the “Empress of the Blues.” Scholar Rebecca Marks Jimerson portrayed Bessie ...

Jodie Turner-Smith shared cryptic song lyrics with her Instagram followers amid her custody battle with ex-husband Joshua Jackson. The Acolyte actress, 38, posted a clip on Friday, June 13, of Ariana ...

The late Elliott Smith's songs moved a whole lot of people, and they continue to pop up in unexpected places. This summer, we'll get an album of Smith covers from the Florida-born pianist and composer ...