Arts and Entertainment

It had been nearly nine months since Randy Rainbow's last musical parody video before he dropped this one on the unsuspecting internet last week. I was concerned that, like earlier…

If you wanted to commission a love song for a late-'80s rom-com, is Randy Newman the guy you'd turn to? As his girlfriend asks in the video, "What's the matter?…

I admit I never thought I'd actually find a song called "Gazpacho," but when Congressdope Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed her thoughts about the gazpacho police -- I understand they only…

Hot Chocolate was a British soul band best known for their 1975 international hit "You Sexy Thing," a disco standard that reached No. 3 in the US. But it was…

First off, no, this isn't the Kansas tune. It predates it by six years. Fifty years ago this month, then 23-year-old Todd Rundgren released what's widely regarded as his magnum…

There are lots of songs about real places, but I don't know of any song that celebrates a real place more obscure than Amity Gardens, Pa. That's what you'd expect…

Seems like a good time for a vacation in the Bahamas, doesn't it? Drunken first mate, cook with the fits, even, in the original version, a captain with a greedy…

I keep rediscovering bands from the '90s, the last decade when there were so many you might miss a few. Until I heard this tune on a throwback radio show…

Once upon a time it wasn't uncommon for instrumental tracks to become massive hits. One of the biggest came from one of the most unconventional people to ever create one.…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona For the second year in a row, the most interesting Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee is probably the Nigerian Fela Kuti. And once…