The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is saluting late blues singer Janis Joplin with a week-long series of events and a star-studded concert in her honor.

The hall in Cleveland, Ohio and Case Western Reserve University will present talks this week by those who were close to Joplin during her climb to fame in the 1960s - including her siblings, her former road manager, and Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen.

The tributes will conclude on Saturday with the tribute show, featuring Lucinda Williams, Country Joe McDonald, and songwriter Bob Neuwirth, who wrote one of Joplin...

The spirit of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair of 1969 resonates 40 summers later, as if it were just yesterday. In 1969, five acts recorded albums for the Columbia, Epic, and RCA labels (divisions of Sony Music Entertainment) and brought their music to Max Yasgur's farm that summer. For the first time, "The Woodstock Experience" couples those albums with music from the festival, providing a pocket portrait of what each artist and band was experiencing during 1969. Available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting June 30th - in newly-designed eco-friendly 2CD packages (see deta...

As members of one of rock's first supergroups, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash helped define the Woodstock generation through their peerless harmonies, resonant songwriting and deep commitment to political and social causes. The trio will tour this summer in both the U.S. and Europe, with more dates to be added to the U.S. leg. In between the late-spring North American and early summer European segments of the tour, Crosby, Stills & Nash will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 18 in New York City, and before the tour begins, Rhino will offer a behind-the-sce...

"Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music" – the four-hour director’s cut of the 1970 Oscar®-winning documentary about the landmark music event that featured some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll performers in history -- will be released June 9 in a spectacular new limited, numbered Blu-ray and DVD Ultimate Collector’s Edition (UCE).

With two extra hours of rare performance footage - some of it newly-discovered, some only seen in part and some never seen at all - the UCE is destined to make its own history.

Image © 1969 Michael Lang Henry Diltz

Today, four decades later, Woodstoc...

Happy Birthday to "Planet of the Apes" actress/model Estella Warren (1978), Canadian singer Esthero (1978), 80s teen heartthrob Corey Haim (1971), Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder (1964), southern singer Victoria Williams (1958), Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray (1956), King Crimson guitarist/music producer Adrian Belew (1949), soap-opera actress Susan Lucci (1947), U.S. General Wesley Clark (1944), Simpsons voice actor Harry Shearer (1943), musician/songwriter Tim Hardin (1941; d. 1980), and Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna guitarist Jorma Kaukonen (1940).

Happy Birthday to Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale (1967), Argentine footballer Diego Armando Maradona (1960), TV star Harry Hamlin (1951), the "Fonz" Henry Winkler (1945), Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick (1939), Broadway and silver screen star Ruth Gordon (1896), "Crime and Punishment" author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), and second President of the United States John Adams.

Lakeshore Records (Underworld and Underworld: Evolution), returns September 18 with the motion picture soundtrack to the film Resident Evil: Extinction. For the third installment of the $100 million Resident Evil franchise starring Milla Jovovich and based on the wildly popular video game series, Lakeshore has handpicked a diverse share of all exclusive contemporary hard-rock songs that compliment the film's post-apocalyptic landscapes seeped in horror and science fiction.

Every song here is exclusive to Resident Evil: Extinction. Featured artists include Shadows Fall ("Stupid Crazy"),...

*NOTE*: Starpulse has been informed that the release date of this box-set has been pushed back to September 18 due to complications at the factory producing it.

LOS ANGELES -- Forty years ago the world turned its ears toward San Francisco as a wave of talented bands gave birth to the American counterculture. On August 28, Rhino remembers that magical confluence of time and place with Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970, a 4-CD box set of classics and rarities from the golden age of Golden State rock.

San Francisco Nuggets is the last word on one of popular m...

A massive statue of late rocker Jimi Hendrix is welcoming fans to this year's Isle of Wight Festival in England. The festival, which first launched in 1968 with Jefferson Airplane at the top of the bill, kicked off yesterday with Northern Irish rockers Snow Patrol.

Amy Winehouse and Kasabian play today and legendary rockers The Rolling Stones will end the show with a bang on Sunday.

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Happy Birthday To Mambo #5 singer Lou Bega (1975), singer Aaron Lewis (1972), "NYPD Blue" actor Rick Schroder (1970), actress/talk show host Caroline Rhea (1964), b-movie actress Jennifer Rubin (1962), E-Street Band drummer Max Weinberg (1951), singer Peabo Bryson (1951), TV and film actor William Sadler (1950), "Hellboy" star Ron Perlman (1950), R&B icon Al Green (1946), "Leave It To Beaver" actor Tony Dow (1945), Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna bassist Jack Casady (1944), film actor Paul Sorvino (1939), "Wonder Woman" actor Lyle Waggoner (1935), "Get Smart" actor Don Adams (1923; d. 2005), A...

Happy St. Patrick's Day and Happy Birthday to The Darkness' former lead singer Justin Hawkins (1975), The Corrs singer Caroline Corr (1973), US soccer superstar Mia Hamm (1972), Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan (1967), actor Rob Lowe (1964), character actor Casey Siemaszko (1961), "CSI: New York" star Gary Sinise (1955), English actress Lesley-Anne Down (1954), "Sky High" actor Kurt Russell (1951), "Dallas" star Patrick Duffy (1949), Jefferson Airplane co-founder Paul Kantner (1941), Jazz icon Nat King Cole (1919), golf legend Bobby Jones (1902), Oscar-winner Mercedes McCambridge (191...

Columbia Records will release "Twelve," the eagerly-anticipated album of "cover" versions of classic popular songs newly interpreted by the 2007 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Patti Smith, on Tuesday, April 17.

"Twelve" is Patti Smith's first album of new studio recordings since Trampin', her Columbia Records debut, was released in 2004, and is the artist's first-ever full-length collection of songs originally created by other performers.

On "Twelve," Patti Smith and her band -- Lenny Kaye (guitar), Jay Dee Daugherty (drums) and Tony Shanahan (bass, keyboards) -- work their mag...

Happy Birthday to "Lizzie McGuire" actor Jake Thomas (1990), "That 70s Show" star Wilmer Valderrama (1980), American actor/comedian Andy Milonakis (1976), "Batman Begins" star Christian Bale (1974), singer Jody Watley (1959), late golfer Payne Stewart (1957; d. 1999), actor Charles S. Dutton (1951), Genesis drummer/solo singer Phil Collins (1951), Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin (1943), Vice President Dick Cheney (1941), British actress Vanessa Redgrave (1937), prolific screen actor Gene Hackman (1930), musician Roy Eldridge (1911; d. 1989), and 32nd President of the United States Fra...

Happy Birthday to "Planet of the Apes" actress/model Estella Warren (1978), Canadian singer Esthero (1978), 80s teen heartthrob Corey Haim (1971), Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder (1964), southern singer Victoria Williams (1958), Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray (1956), King Crimson guitarist/music producer Adrian Belew (1949), soap-opera actress Susan Lucci (1947), U.S. General Wesley Clark (1944), Simpsons voice actor Harry Shearer (1943), musician/songwriter Tim Hardin (1941; d. 1980), and Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna guitarist Jorma Kaukonen (1940).

Happy Birthday to Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale (1967), Argentine footballer Diego Armando Maradona (1960), TV star Harry Hamlin (1951), the "Fonz" Henry Winkler (1945), Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick (1939), Broadway and silver screen star Ruth Gordon (1896), "Crime and Punishment" author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), and second President of the United States John Adams.

Happy Birthday To Mambo #5 singer Lou Bega (1975), singer Aaron Lewis (1972), "NYPD Blue" actor Rick Schroder (1970), actress/talk show host Caroline Rhea (1964), b-movie actress Jennifer Rubin (1962), E-Street Band drummer Max Weinberg (1951), singer Peabo Bryson (1951), TV and film actor William Sadler (1950), "Hellboy" star Ron Perlman (1950), R&B icon Al Green (1946), "Leave It To Beaver" actor Tony Dow (1945), Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna bassist Jack Casady (1944), film actor Paul Sorvino (1939), "Wonder Woman" actor Lyle Waggoner (1935), "Get Smart" actor Don Adams (1923; d. 2005), A...

Happy St. Patrick's Day and Happy Birthday to The Darkness' lead singer Justin Hawkins (1975), The Corrs singer Caroline Corr (1973), US soccer superstar Mia Hamm (1972), Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan (1967), actor Rob Lowe (1964), character actor Casey Siemaszko (1961), "CSI: New York" star Gary Sinise (1955), English actress Lesley-Anne Down (1954), "Sky High" actor Kurt Russell (1951), "Dallas" star Patrick Duffy (1949), Jefferson Airplane co-founder Paul Kantner (1941), Jazz icon Nat King Cole (1919), golf legend Bobby Jones (1902), Oscar-winner Mercedes McCambridge (1918; d. 20...

Happy Birthday to "Lizzie McGuire" actor Jake Thomas (1990), "That 70s Show" star Wilmer Valderrama (1980), American actor/comedian Andy Milonakis (1976), "Batman Begins" star Christian Bale (1974), singer Jody Watley (1959), late golfer Payne Stewart (1957; d. 1999), actor Charles S. Dutton (1951), Genesis drummer/solo singer Phil Collins (1951), Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin (1943), Vice President Dick Cheney (1941), British actress Vanessa Redgrave (1937), prolific screen actor Gene Hackman (1930), musician Roy Eldridge (1911; d. 1989), and 32nd President of the United States Fra...

Happy Birthday to "Planet of the Apes" actress/model Estella Warren (1978), Canadian singer Esthero (1978), 80s teen heartthrob Corey Haim (1971), Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder (1964), southern singer Victoria Williams (1958), Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray (1956), King Crimson guitarist/music producer Adrian Belew (1949), soap-opera actress Susan Lucci (1947), U.S. General Wesley Clark (1944), Simpsons voice actor Harry Shearer (1943), musician/songwriter Tim Hardin (1941; d. 1980), and Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna guitarist Jorma Kaukonen (1940).

Happy Birthday to Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale (1967), Argentine footballer Diego Armando Maradona (1960), TV star Harry Hamlin (1951), the "Fonz" Henry Winkler (1945), Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick (1939), Broadway and silver screen star Ruth Gordon (1896), "Crime and Punishment" author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), and second President of the United States John Adams.