Ron and Russell Mael smile indulgently at me like affectionate uncles. “The Sparks Brothers”—as filmmaker Edgar Wright dubbed them in his 2021 documentary—find my flustered, haphazard interview style ...

After making eclectic, uncompromising albums since 1971, Sparks finds its status morphing into something approaching mainstream recognition. Above, brothers Ron, right, and Russell Mael of 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 ...

Brothers Ron and Russell Mael have been called eccentric more times than Dali waxed his mustache. Though born in the U.S.A., a country where one can't be serious if one possesses a sense of humor, ...

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 ...

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 ...