Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After making eclectic, uncompromising albums since 1971, Sparks finds its status morphing into something approaching mainstream ...

Taking some cues from the Marx Brothers, the Mael Brothers have remained rooted in all manners Sparks. With Ron’s stone-faced Charles Chaplin-like facade and Russell’s flamboyantly delivered falsetto, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ron and Russell Mael of the pop-rock duo Sparks (Credit Munachi Osegbu) Ron and Russell Mael smile indulgently at me like ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. “When we did our first album with Todd Rundgren [for 1972’s Sparks], he ...

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features is getting back in business with musicians Ron and Russell Mael, after serving as the distributor for the 2021 Edgar Wright doc The Sparks Brothers, of which the duo were the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Focus Features is re-teaming with the sibling duo behind the band Sparks for a new musical epic at the studio titled X Crucior. After appearing as the subjects of Edgar Wright's documentary The Sparks ...

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 ...

Ron and Russell Mael are that rarest of all breeds, the Los Angeles native. The brothers came of age in the 1960s on L.A.’s Westside — decades before it was “310” or west of the 405 Freeway — because ...