Regarding their name, Austin Lounge Lizards guitarist and founding member Conrad Deisler said: "I think it was a slang term I'd heard my grandmother use to describe gentlemen of easy virtue who hung around in bars. When we started out, that's just what we were doing -- hanging out and playing for beer and tips and stuff like that." The Lounge... [+] Read More

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The humor and wit that made Tom Lehrer and Shel Silverstein popular in the 1960s is resurrected through the songs of John Forster. In addition to producing three hilarious folk-rooted solo albums -- Entering Marion, Helium and The Official Bootleg Album -- Forster has produced and written songs for award-winning children's albums by Tom Chapin,... [+] Read More

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First spotted by a CBC radio executive while busking in Toronto, the four members of Moxy Fruvous used their theatrical experience to set them apart. Their street-side set included rap, folk, impromptu theatrics, comedy, and political satire. Mike Ford, Murray Foster, David Matheson sing and play guitar and bass, while Jian Ghomeshi sings and... [+] Read More

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Grabbing hold of the ole lighting rod.

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Spike Jones kept a frenetic pace in the late 1930s as a freelance studio musician for motion pictures, records and radio shows. The busy young drummer commuted to Hollywood studios in a station wagon that was a veritable junkyard on wheels. But he had little opportunity to employ cowbells, sirens and automobile horns in his work at the time. He... [+] Read More

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During the 1970s, Steve Martin was the most successful stand-up comedian in America, earning the level of commercial success -- sell-out arena performances, platinum records, hit singles and delirous fan adulatation -- usually reserved for rock stars. Although his career went on to encompass stints as an acclaimed dramatic actor and playwright,... [+] Read More

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