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 ...

So does Mad!, the title of Sparks’ new and 26th studio album, refer to brothers Ron and Russell Mael’s current temperament? Or is it simply a reference to their legendarily idiosyncratic creative ...

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 ...

Ron and Russell Mael talk about their forthcoming May album, a career-dream appearance at the Hollywood Bowl, and how they think their new single measures up to Mahler in Blanchett's recent musical ...

Sparks have shared their new single “Drowned in a Sea of Tears” from their upcoming album Mad!, which the Mael brothers will take on the road this fall on a North American tour. The song and its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ron and Russell Mael revolted against the folk and Beach Boys-drenched California of the 1960s. Drawn instead to the British Invasion of The Kinks, The Who, and The Move, the brothers, then students ...

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 ...