Landing a first headlining slot at the Hollywood Bowl is a cherished milestone for any major musical acts who claim Los Angeles as their home base. It can even mean a little more, probably, when it’s ...

Your average cult band might make a handful of great, overlooked albums, split up in frustration, and eventually reunite to play for big festival crowds after the world belatedly begins to appreciate ...

Brothers Russell and Ron Mael’s musical stylings have been anything but conventional over the past five decades, and yet they are among music’s most underrated geniuses. Embellishing elements of pop ...

Sparks previewed their new studio album, “The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte,” in a suitably Sparks way: a music video for the title track starring actress Cate Blanchett dancing her heart out while ...

The subjects of the new documentary "The Sparks Brothers" join the director as he reveals his five favorites from the sibling duo's 25-album catalog. Filmmaker Edgar Wright turns to Ron and Russell ...

Over the course of nearly 30 albums and 54 years, Russell and Ron Mael have had plenty of time to perfect the DNA of a Sparks song. During those multiple decades of songcraft, the Maels have seen ...

North America will be “Mad!” about the boys when Sparks embarks on a U.S. and Canada tour this summer, which the duo is announcing today on the heels of previously announced overseas dates for 2025.

LOS ANGELES — They’ve spent more than half a century together as bandmates, putting out dozens of records. But brothers Ron and Russell Mael — the duo behind the art-pop band Sparks — have no ...

There’s a scene early in “The Sparks Brothers,” director Edgar Wright’s documentary on the brothers Ron and Russell Mael, where Russell reflects on a moment in the early ’70s when Sparks seemed poised ...

North America will be “Mad!” about the boys when Sparks embarks on a U.S. and Canada tour this summer, which the duo is announcing today on the heels of previously announced overseas dates for 2025.

But enough of what the show meant to them. What did it mean to us, the L.A. Sparks fan, wanting some music that you can dance to as well as a valedictory moment? The great irony of any Sparks show in ...