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 MoreAvailable on iTunes, Amazon and other fine MP3 retailers. Video is also at iTunes.
Read MoreThe latest in his "Internet Leaks" collection, it's an original this time. Available for download from iTunes and Amazon (DRM-free).
Read MoreIt's about time for a new Weird Al song, and he doesn't disappoint. Already available at various online outlets like iTunes and Rhapsody, but I favor Amazon since there's no DRM on it. You can also buy the video you just saw. This drove me nuts trying to identify the specific Doors song he's doing, but it's [...]
Read MoreJust 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 MoreAccording to an article in this week's Rolling Stone, "First Hype, Then Kill: How the geeks who control the music blogosphere destroy the bands they love," my constant bloglove for Weird Al Yankovic will surely result in a record deal for him, which is, apparently, creative death. I'm not sure how that works, but I'm [...]
Read MoreIt's also the day to pick up "Weird Al" Yankovic's new CD, "Straight Outta Lynwood." You'll want to hurry. It's been three years since his last CD, and he hasn't slowed down any. 12 songs, including parodies of Chamillioniare, Green Day, The Beach Boys, Usher, Cake, Taylor Hicks, R. Kelly, and more. After this you'll [...]
Read MoreWith a new CD ("Staright Outta Lynwood") coming out next week, Weird Al Yankovic is starting the buzz. Two weeks ago he released "Don't Download This Song" — with links where you could download it — and this week he released his Chamillion parody "White and Nerdy." Head to his MySpace page or YouTube to [...]
Read MoreWeird Al has a new album coming out September 26th, and he's released a song from it for free download. It's titled, appropriately, "Don't Download This Song." www.myspace.com/weirdal – The song, and the place it'll be premiered tonight at 6 PM Pacific, 9 PM Eastern. DontDownloadThisSong.com – Send the song as an e-card ddts.mp3 – [...]
Read MoreWeird Al just released "You're Pitiful," a parody of James Blunt, on his site as a free download. As someone who only vaguely liked the original song the first 300 times I heard it, I am now doing a happy dance. Al's site is getting hit pretty hard so downloading may be slow. There's a [...]
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