Weird Al Yankovic

Insane Clown Posse's Violent J: "I Feel Like God is Talking Through Me"

Ease into the weekend with this round-up of music writing we've been reading.

O, UNHOLY NIGHT

Top your tree with Jackie Beat

Introducing SOTC's Look Back At Our First Least Favorite Songs, Starting With New Kids On The Block

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

Will Mexicans Be The New White Race in America?

Oddsmaking: Will Thom Yorke Dance Away With The Short-Form Music Video Grammy?

​Unlike MTV's Video Music Awards, which usually reward some combination of pop excellence, symbolic audacity, and likelihood of being controversial, the Grammys' short-form music video category is a lot like the Oscars. They don't always pick the best videos—this year's list omits such h ... More >>

Oddsmaking: Will Louis C.K. Or Lonely Island Overtake "Weird Al" And Win Best Comedy Album?

​Throughout the award's history, Grammy voters have tended to bestow Best Comedy Album upon trusted favorites: Bill Cosby closed out the 1960s with six straight victories; Richard Pryor took home three trophies in the '70s and two more in the '80s; and Peter Schickele opened the '90s with four ... More >>

Tea Party Princess

Victoria Jackson went from the big leagues of comedy to the rabid right of modern politics

Sound Of The City's 2011 NBA Preview: Each Team, Paired With An Album From The Past Year

Think of the orange car as a clue. ​The resurrected NBA season kicks off (thankfully, finally) on Sunday. To celebrate, we've paired each team with a notable album from the past year; the list, with tweet-sized justifications, is below. (NB, although the NBA-savvy of you might have already fig ... More >>

Presented For Your Thanksgiving Enjoyment: A Cornucopia Of Songs With "Pie" In The Title

Today is Thanksgiving here in the States, and in addition to getting irritated by Nickelback's existence, lots of Americans will probably celebrate by eating pie. The word "pie" is a bit more prevalent in the lyrics of non-"Weird Al" Yankovic-crafted popular music than one might a dessert to be, but ... More >>

Weird Al Yankovic

69 with a Dirty-Mind: Age Has Not Mellowed The Weird World of Blowfly

"Weird Al" Yankovic To Class Up The Beacon Theater In October

What better way to cap off MTV's 30th anniversary than with an announcement about master pop parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose AL TV blocks encouraged me to stare wall-eyed at various TVs owned by my family members for very long blocks of time, and also to believe in flying hamsters. He's playing ... More >>

Never Let It Be Said That "Weird Al" Yankovic Doesn't Take Pop Music Seriously

​ It's been apparent since his earliest days that "Weird Al" Yankovic is willing to go the extra miles to properly pay tribute to the pop artists he's parodying, from the pounds and pounds of extra weight he put on in the "Bad" homage "Fat" to the way he risked choking on a marble while trying ... More >>

Five Novelty Songs That Were In Heavy Rotation During The Z Morning Zoo's Golden Era

​Today the AV Club has a feature up on enjoyable novelty songs that namechecks (among others) the sitcom-created boyband 2ge her, the musical works of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and Barnes & Barnes' seminal "Fish Heads," not to mention good old "Weird Al" Yankovic. Any discussion of novelty s ... More >>

Week In Review: Their Eyes Were Watching You

​ The week that was in music: "Weird Al" Yankovic made Lady Gaga blink. Beyoncé overloaded everyone's eardrums. Fleetwood Mac is in rock critics' comfort zone.

Someone Got Really Annoyed By "Weird Al" Yankovic's Gaga Parody

​Accordion-wielding prankster "Weird Al" Yankovic has released his newest pop song parody, a take on Lady Gaga's "Born This Way"--and the star's outlandish style--called "Perform This Way." Despite the very small window of time between the original and Yankovic's overall pretty faithful interp ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #5: Artists for Haiti, "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​In 2010, when pop musicians are struggling to have half the visibility of the latest news-cycle-spawned entrant into Google Trends, it's hard not to see charity endeavors as ego extensions. Recall "Just Stand Up!," ... More >>

The Slackers

Everybody Was In the French Resistance...Now!

Take Donald Glover, Aziz Ansari, and Das Racist's Joke Rap Seriously

A new generation of MCs grapple with how funny they're allowed to be

Spring Guide: Londoners the xx and More

Enjoying American top-10 lists with the hit Brits

TRAPPER KEEPER

Jonathan Coulton doesn’t mess around with messing around

Quick Hits

Weird Al and a team of experts provide a brief history of autotune. (h/t Joe My God.) Folks outraged at Palin in shorts on a Newsweek cover have resorted to their greatest weapon -- Photoshop! This one is our favorite. A Citizens Union report says that in the past 10 years, 14 state legislator ... More >>

Week in Review: Do Not Go to Siren Fest Hungover!

Look, it's a member of Das Racist eating food. Photo by Sam Horine.  In the week we spent the early hours of recovering from Siren Festival--highlights of which were many and varied and included a photo of Das Racist daring to eat a type of food the duo doesn't rap about--we were officially and ... More >>

Tonight! Andrew WK, Richard Cheese, Scanner, Kuhn and Lovano

Andrew W.K.'s ventures in record production, crackpot philosophy, and bazooka-packed children's television are all a front for the simple, resoundingly true greeting on his voicemail: "The point of your day today is to do what you want to do, and do it all the way. That's the way I play, and that' ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Maybe you've heard of "snowflake babies" but never really known what they were. They're not really babies -- just frozen embryos about the size of a comma. But because they can be implanted in women and gestated into children, conservative Christians say the frosted 'flakes are people. And they're r ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! Taco Hell

An East Coast Chicano suffers

The Wayans' Dance Flick

The take-offs here would make "Weird Al" groan.

Sporadically Vibrant Reports From the R&B Salt Mines with Ciara and Chrisette Michele

New jams for low-riders and supper clubs, respectively

Matt Wasowski, Founder of Nerd Nite, Talks Speed Dating for the Four-Eyed Set

Famous nerds: Wasowski on the right...Matt Wasowski, founder of Nerd Nite (the social gathering/lecture for the intellectually cool and inebriated) attempts to give nerds the respect they deserve by getting them laid (or at least have a stimulating conversation about wildflowers) through speed datin ... More >>

On the Lonely Island's "I'm On a Boat," Featuring T-Pain

If you're gonna go the Weird Al white-people-satirizing-black-rappers route, better Crime Mob than Coolio, right? (And "I'm riding on a dolphin, doing flips and shit/The dolphin's splashing, gettin' everybody all wet" could have absolutely come from "Party Like a Rockstar" and no one would've blin ... More >>

Beyoncé on SNL: A Fount of Both Intentional and Unintentional Comedy

CMJ: MyOpenBar Party at Don Pedro's with Women, Vivian Girls, King Khan, and Blood on the Bar

TONIGHT! SPIDERFANG AND GEORGE POSITIVE! DON'T SLEEP!

Fuck a Blog: Asylum Street Spankers

More tough talk from America's catchiest badasses

Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight

Letters

Six Originals, Five Parodies, and a Polka

Talking with music legend Weird Al Yankovic

Dare to Be Stupid

In defense, praise, and unrelenting awe of the increasingly vital Weird Al

Music

What you need to know this week to avoid ostracism

Ahab is Rad

Seeming rap prankster bleeds earnestness despite his jokes

Drunk Canadians Destroy Stoner Rock

Jelly and Cheese

Osaka trio bangs heads, makes four-eyed baldies smile

I Started a Joke

Shockingly, No 50 Cent Parody Yet

NY Mirror

All Ears

Disney Dreams Up the Best Radio Station in 30 Years

Tangled Up in Blue

Blue Morning, Blue Day, Little Blue Corvettes

Are Friends Electro?

Gag Reflex, 35 Cents Off

Adventures in Hi-Fi

Digital Kills the Radio Star