The American pop and rock band Sparks (l-r): Ron Mael and Russell Mael. credit: Anna Weber. It has been a very busy period for the legendary and influential Los Angeles-based rock/pop duo Sparks ...

John Lennon was heavily reliant on heroin in the mid-1970s, so the following legendary story should be taken with a pinch of ...

Ron Mael: When we started commuting, at least for me, I had a commute along Sunset Boulevard to get to UCLA, so the Dead Man’s Curve area and all that, that was something that was really special ...

And here’s an irony for you: When brothers Ron and Russell Mael created a project called “The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman” many years back, it was with the intent of it being a ...

You’ll like the fact that the band’s two members, Russell Mael and Ron Mael, are brothers who have an otherworldly sense of humor about themselves.You’ll like that back in their heyday (if ...

There is a song on Sparks’ new album, MAD!, that sums up their ethos to a tee. The lyrics of Do Things My Own Way include “Saw the Pope, told him, ‘nope’ / Gonna do things my own way” and “My advice?

Here’s what Ron Mael of Sparks had to say. The band’s new album, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, drops digitally on May 15. What are you doing with your unexpected time at home?

With the Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard film “Annette” premiering in Cannes, brothers Russell and Ron Mael, better known as Sparks, may have an early original song contender on hand with ...

Ron Mael Tony Visconti/Focus Features “Ron just sort of knew he couldn’t be like a rocker at the keyboards. It didn’t really feel ‘him’ to do the Jerry Lee Lewis or the Keith Emerson ...

Ron Mael: It does. It seems incredibly strange. When we did our first proper album, the Halfnelson album, with Todd Rundgren, maybe that was 1971 or something like that.

Russell Mael, second from left, and his brother Ron, far right, of the band Sparks perform before a special screening of the film “Annette” at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Aug. 18, 2021 ...