Your average cult band might make a handful of great, overlooked albums, split up in frustration, and eventually reunite to ...

They’ve spent more than half a century together as bandmates and put out dozens of records. But the brothers behind the ...

Music legend Paul McCartney gave a sweet nod to iconic pop duo Sparks by impersonating one of its members, Ron Mael, in his ...

Russel: It’s almost like Grace Kelly sitting in the back. General Motors probably wanted us to show their actual car from the ...

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 ...

Since they first properly struck gold with 1974’s piano-pounding art-glam romp, This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us, ...

Photo: Ron Mael (left) and Russel Mael (right) with the Sparks for the television programme Generation 80 in Brussels (Belgium) in March 1981, when the album "Whomp That Sucker" was released ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a recent afternoon, Ron and Russell Mael Zoomed with Salon to discuss the impact of the documentary, as well as "The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte" and the importance of visuals to Sparks' existence.