Exactly 65 years ago, Ross Bagdasarian‘s “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” — a novelty song featuring weird, high-pitched voices augmented in a recording studio — kicked off what would ...

Alvin & The Chipmunks have been some of the most beloved cartoon characters since 1958. They were an animated musical band created by Ross Bagdasarian, originally starting with a novelty song called ...

Jeremy Ferguson, local rock loyalist who has engineered/produced a number of local releases ranging from Be Your Own Pet to Paul Burch, has released his first podcast, and it's got the local flavor we ...

Is there a music genre less respected than novelty music? Well, disco, but we weep not for the dead. The novelty song, which for our purposes here is defined as "a comical or nonsensical song," is ...

Carey, known to many as the Queen of Christmas, told PEOPLE why she even loves sad Christmas songs Kevin Mazur/Getty Images All Mariah Carey wants for Christmas is Alvin and the Chipmunks! The "All I ...

Some Christmas music is classic; some is cringe-worthy. Today we celebrate the latter. This is the music you play when you want your guests to leave. Indeed, it is, and nothing sets the mood quite ...

Also later on, Simon raps. You have to love when Hollywood goes on crusades against its crassest impulses, then slips up by using super-marketable stuff in the service of proving its point. Because ...