The latest event in her 50-state tour, geek-folk singer Marian Call is coming to Winter Park, FL, to perform at The Geek Easy at A Comic Shop. Marian puts on a hell of a show, complete with typewriter and rain stick, and doesn't get to this end of the country so you won't want to [...]
Read MoreBe an art patron, fast! Marian Call selling new bootleg CDs of unreleased work
Ever experimental in the ways an artist can work with her audience to both make a living and give them something special, geek-songstress Marian Call is selling a new bootleg CD to celebrate her second full-length live-streaming concert at WholeWheatRadio.org . 15 tracks in various stages of polish; some from live performances, some early versions [...]
Read MoreOut on CD: The Browncoats' "Space Age Loser"
Turns out that in the future, we're not limited to just guitar, fiddle, and whatever else was playing in the background. The future will also include punk rock. Rock and roll, mudder's milk and shindigs. The Browncoats is a rock group that wallows in singing about outer space, flying miscellaneous aircraft, and places and people [...]
Read MoreNew Weird Al song and video: "Ringtone"
Weird Al continues his onslaught of song releases with "Ringtone," and a video made in collaboration with Current TV's "SuperNews": Next Tuesday he'll be releasing "Internet Leaks," a downloadable mini-album of the five songs he's produced since his last album: his T.I. parody “Whatever You Like,” his Doors pastiche “Craigslist,” his Jungle Cruise homage “Skipper [...]
Read MoreNew Weird Al video takes on the White Stripes and the toughest man in the world
Available on iTunes, Amazon and other fine MP3 retailers. Video is also at iTunes.
Read MoreThe song from the end of Dollhouse's "Epitaph One" is for sale
"Remains," the hauntingly beautiful song from the end of "Epitaph One," the unaired 13th episode of "Dollhouse," is now available for purchase at Amazon and Amazon.uk. It's not at iTunes yet but they usually release new stuff on Tuesdays, so here's hoping. "Remains" was written and performed by "Dollhouse" writers Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon [...]
Read MoreMake your own Spinal Tap music video, win stuff, possibly explode
In honor of their 25th anniversary and their new album "Back From the Dead," just released last month, Spinal Tap is asking the fans to get involved. David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap are inviting fans to create an original video to be posted on YouTube for one of the [...]
Read MoreWoo! New Weird Al stuff a'comin'
Just announced at weirdal.com (and on Al's Twitter feed): INTERNET LEAKS …is NOT the name of the next Weird Al album (we have no idea yet when that’s coming out)… but Al will be “leaking” new tracks to the Internet over the summer, and for bookkeeping reasons we had to call them SOMETHING, so “Internet [...]
Read MoreSonny Rhodes shot a performance for "Browncoats Redemption," still needs your help
Donations for blues master Sonny Rhodes, the vocalist in the Firefly theme song, have helped a lot, but he's still in a bad place, physically and financially. From Brian Wiser: The donations and supportive emails did make a big difference in a variety of ways and Sonny continues to be very grateful. He's still not [...]
Read MoreA new riff: When the Internet failed me
Photo: C. A. Bridges I was at a Jon Bon Jovi concert in New Jersey with my wife a month ago and he was talking about the next Bon Jovi album. The last one, "Lost Highway," had a decided country tinge to it, but the new one was going to be back to basics. "I'm [...]
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