The latest, The Very Best Of Dr. Demento, distills those works into 17 classic songs and radio skits. Hansen recently spoke to The Onion A.V. Club about his archives, Napster, ...

Demento, who has a masters in ethnomusicology from UCLA, introduced Weird Al Yankovic to the world and played early Frank Zappa and Tom Lehrer. He "was a staple on the old KMET for years, as well as ...

While this week’s release of Bob Dylan and The Band’s near-mythical The Basement Tapes finally brought to an end a decades-long quest for the Holy Grail of unreleased recordings, it almost ...

The Basement Tapes, including a tantalising 16, over-dubbed, versions of the songs, went Top 10 in 1975. Rock’s bootleg industry had already begun with 1969’s Great White Wonder, ...