Zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier would have turned 100 this year; a new album featuring the Rolling Stones and Lucinda Williams ...

Jarvis Cocker formed Pulp in Sheffield in 1978, and kept the band going for about 15 years before anybody else cared about it ...

His latest work, released under the moniker Very Old Morris — he’s only 43 — is a doozy of a double album titled Last of the ...

The persistence of “Alvin and the Chipmunks” as a cultural text is rather baffling. The mischievous singing rodents were created in 1958 for a novelty record, which makes them 57 years old. You’re ...

This tzedakah box made from an up-cycled record album cover is eco-friendly ... Instead, look in thrift shops and garage sales for old albums with interesting artwork. I actually found the ...

Beatles cover albums have existed for almost as ... from Count Basie to Alvin and the Chipmunks (whose pipsqueak versions were claimed by Kurt Cobain to be better than the real thing).

In between, the band signs to Play-Tone Records ... Cowboy Joe” (No. 16), “Alvin’s Orchestra” (No. 33), “Alvin for President” (No. 95), a cover of “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer ...

Black Francis): The first of the album’s celebrity liaisons, this track is a marked improvement on the previous. I anticipated a corny cover of Billy Idol ... [2.5/5] ‘Love Thyself’: If Alvin and the ...

This is an oldie but a goodie: Brian Borcherdt took an album of 80s covers sung by Alvin & the Chipmunks (Walk Like an Egyptian, My Sharona, Always On My Mind) and played them at 16 RPM on a record ...