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 ...

Country music is full of serious songs about life, love, loss, and several other topics. However, the genre has a lighter side as well. Some of country music’s biggest artists have recorded a novelty ...

Who would win in a guitarbattle: Ronald McDonald or Ned Flanders? Well, you might not have to wait much longer to find out, when fast-food themed metal band Mac Sabbath and Simpsons-themed metal band ...

Jim Lauderdale’s new album, When Carolina Comes Home Again, finds the country/Americana star making one of his periodic visits to his bluegrass roots. The hook for this project is that Lauderdale is ...

No one needs another take on Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl. We live in a surfeit of TLOAS takes. But this is a ...

The festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary with seven free concerts in four venues in the Garden District and Uptown ...

WEIRD AL YANKOVIC hasn’t released a record in a couple of years, but his legacy lives on. If you’ve listened to rock radio lately, you know what I mean: The novelty song is back. “If I could offer you ...