Janis Her Life and Music heavy metal "The 500th issue of the

"The 500th issue of the magazine comes with a special commemorative silver gatefold cover featuring brand new artwork by The Wire's long standing resident graphic artist and illustrator Savage Pencil

as well as a commitment to experimentalism

and — some say surprisingly — the band’s first full-blown concept album to close an immense career marked by integrity and idealism

Andy Rourke

Janis Her Life and Music heavy metal "The 500th issue of theAuthor: Holly George Warren This extraordinarily intimate and gripping (Vanity Fair) biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender bending rebel she was. Janis Joplins first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast.