Welcome to the wild world of "Weird Al" Yankovic - a world populated by a Pennsylvania Dutch gangsta-rapper ("Amish Paradise") and a serial-killing Saint Nick ("The Night Santa Went Crazy")

The idea of mashing is synonymous with potatoes. However, there's another type of "mash-up" that has nothing to do with traditional cooking methods. The music mash-up is where two completely different songs

Atlantic recording group The Virgins have announced details of a full-scale touring schedule, set to keep the downtown NYC-based band traveling across North America through March 2009.

Tom Petty is always wary of returning to fabled Los Angeles venue the Troubadour because he still hasn't paid a $480 bill he owes bosses from the 1970s.

Probably the most underrated term in the music industry is the "One Hit Wonder." Popularized in the 80s, one hit wonders are either regarded as artists with one hit (like Deee-Lite’s "Groove is in the Heart"), or artists who produced a song that everybody knows (like "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors).

Former 1980s pop group The Knack have filed a copyright infringement suit against Run DMC, alleging the hip-hop trio used an unlicensed sample of their classic 1979 anthem "My Sharona." The Knack's Doug Fieger and Berton Averre claimed on Friday that they never gave the rap stars premission to sample their platinum hit song on 1986 track "It's Tricky," according to AllHipHop.com.

The Knack drummer Bruce Gary has lost his battle with lymphoma. He was 54. The "My Sharona" hitmaker is also famous for producing archive Jimi Hendrix recordings and performing behind stars like Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, George Harrison and Bette Midler.

The Knack frontman Doug Fieger is recovering after undergoing successful brain surgery yesterday. According to his publicist, Guy McCain, the 53-year-old “My Sharona” singer had two tumors removed during the operation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.