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.

Russell Mael holding Ron Mael's face as a mask on the poster for The Sparks Brothers Credit: Image via Focus Features Focus Features is re-teaming with the sibling duo behind the band Sparks for a new ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ron Mael (at keyboard) and Russell Mael (singing) in "Annette" / Amazon Prime Video As Edgar Wright’s documentary “The Sparks Brothers” makes clear, the Los Angeles-based brothers Ron and Russell Mael ...

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 ...

Self-professed film buff Patton Oswalt recently moderated a 30-minute Q&A with brothers Ron and Russell Mael – better known as the band Sparks – about their new film “Annette,” and TheWrap is now able ...

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 ...

Pop music brothers Ron and Russell Mael, who perform as Sparks, were ‘meta’ before it became a thing, and certainly before Mark Zuckerberg decided to call his company by that name. They’re meta in the ...

Edgar Wright has been directing scripted films, music videos and episodic television for over 25 years, but he had yet to make a documentary feature—until now. In The Sparks Brothers, he explores two ...

Also on this episode of Variety's Award Circuit podcast: The Roundtable gives its impressions of Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story." Ron and Russell Mael didn’t intend for 2021 to be the year they ...

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 ...