The Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More" remains one of the band's most enduring classics, 53 years after its release. Released ...

Forty-two years ago, the Carpenters scored their first No. 1 album with The Singles 1969-1973, a compilation album that collected the greatest hits by the musical siblings from Downey, Calif. Richard ...

There’s been a lot of buzz about Maine’s concert scene lately, most recently the news that Portland City Council approved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Carpenters turned this Oscar-nominated song into a Top 10 favorite, despite having no involvement in the 1970 film where the ...

For more than a decade, The Carpenters had hit after hit on the radio. The duo, made up of siblings Richard Carpenter and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Carpenter called one Carpenters song “almost perfect,” a track where Karen’s legendary voice was raw, vulnerable, and ...

For a devoted record collector, the discovery felt like uncovering buried treasure. When former Stars and Stripes graphic artist Kenichi Ogasawara came across an unfamiliar record labeled with Richard ...

On this day (February 4) in 1983, Karen Carpenter died of a cardiac arrest in her parents’ Downey, California, home at the age of 32. She gained fame as the drummer and vocalist for the Carpenters, ...