Every performer has their "welcome to the show business" moment, but Stevie Nicks getting yelled off stage by Janis Joplin ...

7-11-70: Janis Joplin made her final San Diego appearance ... San Diego had energized her for the airplane journey back to San Francisco,” according to Laura Joplin. “She bought drinks for ...

Image Mr. Greene photographed Janis Joplin during a walk in his neighborhood in San Francisco in 1966.Credit...Herb Greene, via Greene family Unlike Ms. Slick, Janis Joplin smiled for Mr. Greene ...

Marianne Faithfull was a star in her own right; Peggy Caserta was a hippie tastemaker. Their memoirs are riveting.

In the late 1960s, Janis Joplin’s Porsche 356 SC Cabriolet ... While Joplin performed at a show in San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom, an opportunist thief seized the moment to make off with ...

Robert Crumb, the libidinous underground comix pioneer, had one condition before he agreed to participated in Dan Nadel's ...

SANTA CRUZ China Cats go unplugged at Kuumbwa Jazz For 15 years, Santa Cruz’s very own China Cats have put their spins on countless classic Grateful Dead songs. This Friday at Kuumbwa Jazz, ...

Wandering around the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco in the early 1960s, Herb Greene found himself drawn inside a beatnik coffee shop, lured by the music of a local bluegrass group ...

It’s the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary, and a piece of genuine psychedelic history just surfaced from that era of counterculture fog in San Francisco.

John Lee Hooker released a single titled “The Motor City is Burning.” The song commented on the civil unrest which had taken ...

Extracting inimitable, stinging tone from his Tele with just his fingers, Albert Collins carved a hugely influential sonic ...