Hickory Dickory Dock. It’s Andrew Dice Clay on TikTok.

Hickory Dickory Dock. It’s Andrew Dice Clay on TikTok.

Some comedy aficionados make the case that Andrew Dice Clay was always as much performance art as stand-up, akin to the character comedy of Pee-wee Herman and Andy Kaufman. When I interviewed Clay years ago, my impression was that if that were so, years of doing the persona had infiltrated his real self so thoroughly…

Peter Schickele, Composer and Gleeful Sire of P.D.Q. Bach, Dies at 88

Peter Schickele, Composer and Gleeful Sire of P.D.Q. Bach, Dies at 88

He earned his fifth Grammy, for best classical crossover album, for “Hornsmoke” (1998), which includes his “Horse Opera for Brass Quintet,” Piano Concerto No. 2 and other serious compositions. Mr. Schickele’s classical recordings also include Quartet No. 1, “American Dreams,” by the Audubon Quartet; “Schickele on a Lark,” by the Lark Quartet; and “The American…

Dolly Parton Covers Billy Joel, and 8 More New Songs

Dolly Parton Covers Billy Joel, and 8 More New Songs

Now that she’s released the deluxe edition — in honor of her 78th birthday, on Friday! — Dolly Parton’s already sprawling double album “Rockstar” runs nearly three hours long and clocks in at an indefatigably rockin’ 39 tracks. This makes finding the album’s buried treasures that much more exhausting, but luckily one sparkles out from…

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