NEW YORK (WABC) -- A Janis Joplin Tribute Band was busted flat, but not in Baton Rouge, rather near Boston, and was never paid for this playing a gig. They were hired to play at the Music Room in West ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Nick Gravenites, the blues singer and guitarist for The Electric Flag and songwriter for Janis Joplin, has died, his family announced. He was 85. “I regret to inform all of you ...

Janis Joplin died at age 27 on Oct. 4, 1970. Here's everything to know about Janis Joplin's death, including the cause and ...

In the green room before Los Lobos’ Memorial Day concert at West Marin’s Rancho Nicasio, everyone’s attention was focused on the band’s guest for the day: 84-year-old bluesman Nick Gravenites. Wearing ...

9-28-68: Big Brother and the Holding Company were scheduled to play a sold-out show at downtown's Community Concourse. The afternoon before the show, their singer Janis Joplin announced to the press ...

One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s. By Richard Sandomir Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ...

Nina Pineda helps one band get paid after they did not receive payment for a sold-out show. Owner Brian Karppinen said the band and the bartenders are the last people you want to stiff. "The band, it ...