411 Mania — From Joan Jett, Shirley Manson and Stevie Nicks to Janis Joplin, Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Patti Smith and more, the 411 staff ranks their top 5 women in rock music! more info

ContactMusic — Dance music sensation Skrillex is following in the footsteps of Janis Joplin The Band and the Grateful Dead by embarking on a whistle-stop tour of Canada by train The legendary artists teamed up for the famous 1970 Festival Express tour which took th... more info

Popdose — A closer look at Janis Joplin's swan song more info

Impose Magazine — 1. The Obvious Let's get every obvious legend out of the way: Biggie, James Brown, Otis Redding, dead Beatles not named John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Nick Drake, Janis Joplin, etc. These are no brainers and there are plenty others. 2. Ian Curtis... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Summertime has been covered about 4000 times. One of the best can be found on Cheap Thrills, the classic Big Brother and the Holding Company album, with Janis Joplin on vocals. Last year Dutch blogger E-mile Says Songs Do The Matter posted 666 othe... more info

Guardian Music — How a band from smalltown Alabama made a big noise and attracted fans from Bon Iver to Russell Crowe along the wayIn Athens, Alabama, Tony the tiny taxi driver is showing me his gun. It says in the big book of cliche that a Guardian writer in the Ame... more info

411 Mania — From Marilyn Manson's "Sweet Dreams" and Johnny Cash's take on Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" to Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby McGee," Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" and more, the 411 staff ranks their top 5 cover songs of all-time! more info

Detroit Free Press — Stephen Dietz's play "Fiction" opens and closes with the meet-cute moment in which Michael (Aaron H. Alpern) and Linda (Julia Glander), both aspiring writers, argue at a Paris café. He proclaims that the best rock vocal of all time is John Lenn... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — When folk singer Karen Dalton died in 1993 at age 55, she left behind two classic but unknown records made in the late 1960s and early ’70s and featuring session players who’d done time with Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, among others. more info

Guardian Music — In our latest visit to Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – we bring you an interview with the late Etta James, by Cliff White for NME in 1978"Thanksgiving Day in November will be my silver anniversary: 25 ... more info