Music with a message is the name of the game for Falllift. The Rowan County-based folk duo released their new single “All Salt” featuring Boris “Bluz” Rogers on Friday, which focuses on the ...

No Halloween party is complete without the perfect playlist. Halloween songs are a staple of spooky season, from goofy novelty songs like “Monster Mash” to high energy pop hits like “Heads with Roll.” ...

For more than 100 years, many in the Louisville area have made Caufield's Novelty the go-to spot for Halloween costumes.Tracy Caufield-Johnson owns Caufield's. According to her, the business has ...

When most people think of novelty songs, they think of funny tunes with light lyrics. Classics like “The Purple People Eater,” “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” “The Streak,” and pretty much ...

“Monster Mash” was originally written as a parody of several pop fads that have faded away, but the song is an American novelty song that lives on like a vampire. In the early 1960s two cultural ...

In the ’80s and ’90s, nothing was a bigger cultural tastemaker than MTV. Long before it became the home to endless reality shows, it played nothing but music videos 24 hours a day. If you wanted to ...

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 ...

Pharrell Williams has been in the music business since the early 1990s, but would score the biggest hit of his career in 2013 with “Happy.” The peppy tune was such an astronomical international ...

Radio veteran Dr. Demento announced plans for his retirement after 55 years on the air. Real name Barret Hansen, the comedy and novelty music specialist started out in October 1970 on KPPC in Los ...

Legendary group Salt-N-Pepa blazed the way for female rappers at a time when they were among the only prominent women on the hip-hop landscape. Later this year, they'll be inducted into the Rock & ...