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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...