While I was out and about recently, “Let’s Go” by the Cars came on. I always enjoy hearing that song, as I listened to it frequently during my childhood. But the version I listened to growing up ...

Producer Ross Bagdasarian Jr., the son of the creator of the 1958 "Alvin and the Chipmunks," poses with his wife, Janice Karman, at their home office in Montecito, Calif. Bagdasarian Jr. is the ...

Pop punk and power violence, crust punk and hardcore, J-punk and even Chipmunk Punk. They’re all the children of that “deafening roar that awakened the people like never before” — as new kids’ book ...

The true-life, rags-to-riches, 100 percent Hollywood story of Ross Bagdasarian begins in 1958, with the modestly successful songwriter skipping a grocery run for his young family to plunk down his ...