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Weird Al Yankovic

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Dispatch, Theivery Corporation, Chatuaqua and Arvada Center summer lineups announced

    Tons of new shows this week: Dispatchis playing a two-night stand at 1STBANK in September, Joe Cocker and Huey Lewis and the News are headlining this year's KOOL Concert, Thievery Corporation and Beats Antique are due at Red Rocks and Esperanza Spalding is slated for shows at the Boulder Theater and ... More >>

  • News

    January 26, 2012

    Victoria Jackson's excellent Tea Party adventure

    Tons of new shows this week: Dispatchis playing a two-night stand at 1STBANK in September, Joe Cocker and Huey Lewis and the News are headlining this year's KOOL Concert, Thievery Corporation and Beats Antique are due at Red Rocks and Esperanza Spalding is slated for shows at the Boulder Theater and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    A dozen cost-effective (read: cheap) music-related costume ideas for Halloween

    ​Sometimes, you just don't have the cash lying around to splurge on that expensive Halloween costume. Fear not, young heathens! We have compiled a list of costumes for you that cost nearly nothing. In fact, you probably have the materials lying around the house. Click through for some ideas. A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    The 20 greatest geek albums

    ​If the geeks are really set to inherit the earth (that's the saying, right?), then it's time we highlight the musical offerings they have on the table. With Jonathan Coulton's Artificial Heart being released last week at PAX, it seems as good a time as any to look at our favorite albums about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Mile Highlights: This week's concert news, local radio playlists and top album sales

    Here's what's good in the Mile High City this week: Tyler, the Creator himself confirmed the two local Odd Future dates in October we mentioned, we also got word of the official onsale date for the three Ween shows we told you about, and learned Duran Duran is coming to the 1STBANK Center. On local ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    "Weird Al" Yankovic coming to Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Tuesday, September 20

    ​Here's some nerdtastic news to help hype up your humpday: "Weird Al" Yankovic, the crown prince of parody, is coming back to Denver. While that's swell in itself, wait a minute -- it gets better. Guess where he's playing? Ready? Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Uh-huh. How about them apples? Send ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Bill Plympton on surrealism, seediness and doing the job himself

    Bill Plympton has actually eaten all of these things.​Although he's been nominated for a couple of Academy Awards, Bill Plympton has always been a little too weird for the mainstream. His surreal animation, in which human forms are stretched, kneaded and punched to their breaking point, is fre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Lady Gaga be damned: Top five "Weird Al" Yankovic parodies of all time

    ​Earlier this week, Lady Gaga reportedly refused permission to "Weird Al" Yankovic to release a parody of her new single, "Born This Way," called "Perform This Way." Upset, but well-aware of his right, Yankovic released the song anyway. Turns out, Lady Gaga actually loves "Weird Al" and is pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Two-year-old spoof of "What What (In the Butt)" garners copyright infringement suit

    According to an official statement from Brownmark Films, the company, best known for the above completely idiotic video and Internet phenomenon from 2007, has decided to file a lawsuit against Viacom International, Comedy Partners, Paramount Pictures Corporation, MTV Networks and South Park Digita ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Aaron Klug: Top 5 (probably) worse places to get arrested than at a Dungeons & Dragons event

    Aaron Klug.​ There Aaron Klug was, minding his own business at a Dungeons & Dragons event Tuesday, when the pesky cops showed up. Did he slay them with his Flaming Battle Axe or bludgeon them with his skull-topped Staff of Power? Did he pelt them to death with polyhedral dice? No, he did not. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Lady Gaga gets spoofed in the manner of The Office, goofiness ensues

    Remember back in the good ol' days when the only person doing parody rock was Weird Al Yankovic, and it took years for these songs to hit the airwaves? We're pretty sure that no artist on the face of the planet has been parodied, spoofed and generally made fun of as quickly as Lady Gaga. We suppo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Wyclef Jean: Haiti's next president? Here are five musicians we think should run in the U.S.

    ​Yesterday, CNN reported that Wyclef Jean has entered himself into the bid for president in Haiti. This doesn't mark the first time a celebrity has run for office, and while we wish him the best of luck, we have to wonder what qualifications he has other than being a member of the seminal '90s ... More >>

  • Music

    July 29, 2010

    "Weird Al" Yankovic

    Thursday, July 29, Paramount Theatre, 303-623-0106.

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Story about ubiquitous Crocs footwear most-read on Washington Post in past year

    ​Get ready for the shock of your life: There are a lot of Crocs haters out there -- which explains why a 2009 article about the Niwot, Colorado company's financial troubles has been the most viewed item on the Washington Post website this year. But that doesn't stop people from donning the col ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Eminem's Emwow and five other (potentially) record-selling spoofs

    The genius of Vince Offer's sales-pitch send-up of Eminem's Recovery -- and of most parodies, really -- is that it forces the record into a ridiculous context (a thing to "put on your hose," among other uses). And though the video may or may not actually help Marshall Mathers' sales figures, it d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    Tool, Limp Bizkit, American Idol Live! shows announced

    ​Nearly a year after Tool's triumphant headlining set at the Mile High Music Festival, Maynard James Keenan and company return to the area for a two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday and Tuesday, June 28 and 29. Reserved tickets are $52.50 to $69.50 and go on sale Saturday, May 1 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 17, 2009

    The Miracle of Christmas Humor

    ​Nearly a year after Tool's triumphant headlining set at the Mile High Music Festival, Maynard James Keenan and company return to the area for a two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday and Tuesday, June 28 and 29. Reserved tickets are $52.50 to $69.50 and go on sale Saturday, May 1 ... More >>

  • News

    November 26, 2009

    From the week of November 26, 2009

    ​Nearly a year after Tool's triumphant headlining set at the Mile High Music Festival, Maynard James Keenan and company return to the area for a two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday and Tuesday, June 28 and 29. Reserved tickets are $52.50 to $69.50 and go on sale Saturday, May 1 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2009

    Sing Her Praises

    Comic Tenuta will have you converting to Judyism.

  • Calendar

    August 27, 2009

    Modern Mart

    Everything new is old again at the Denver Modernism Show.

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Remembering Michael Jackson's legal faceoff against Denver's Crystal Cartier

    Crystal Cartier. Along with tributes to Michael Jackson's music following word of his death yesterday, news reports have (rightly) gone into detail about his assorted legal troubles -- particularly those involving accusations of child molestation. But none that I've seen have recalled a trial that ... More >>

  • News

    June 4, 2009

    The Mexican is always packing heat

    Crystal Cartier. Along with tributes to Michael Jackson's music following word of his death yesterday, news reports have (rightly) gone into detail about his assorted legal troubles -- particularly those involving accusations of child molestation. But none that I've seen have recalled a trial that ... More >>

  • Music

    July 10, 2008

    Mini Reviews

    Crystal Cartier. Along with tributes to Michael Jackson's music following word of his death yesterday, news reports have (rightly) gone into detail about his assorted legal troubles -- particularly those involving accusations of child molestation. But none that I've seen have recalled a trial that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2007

    I Have a Bad Feeling About This: The Star Wars Holiday Special

    Crystal Cartier. Along with tributes to Michael Jackson's music following word of his death yesterday, news reports have (rightly) gone into detail about his assorted legal troubles -- particularly those involving accusations of child molestation. But none that I've seen have recalled a trial that ... More >>

  • Music

    November 2, 2006

    Al Right Now

    Is "Weird Al" Yankovic an American pop genius?

  • Home Entertainment

    August 17, 2006

    Smells Like Victory

    Is "Weird Al" Yankovic an American pop genius?

  • Music

    January 5, 2006

    Weird Al-right

    Two decades on, Little Fyodor is still strange, witty and real.

  • News

    December 29, 2005

    Strange but True

    A year of dysfunctional family values -- and missing panties.

  • Music

    December 1, 2005

    Listen Up

    Fast reviews of recent releases

  • News

    September 15, 2005

    Teen Angles

    Young Christians learn that they have nothing to apologize for.

  • News

    October 23, 2003

    Don't Be a Playa Hata

    Cheri Thurston is rescuing the squeezebox from oblivion, one note at a time.

  • Calendar

    August 14, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Cheri Thurston is rescuing the squeezebox from oblivion, one note at a time.

  • Music

    July 10, 2003

    Beyoncé

    Dangerously in Love (Columbia)

  • Music

    July 3, 2003

    Feel the Noise

    If people won't come to the noise, Friends Forever will take the noise to them.

  • Music

    December 19, 2002

    Squeezin' the Cheese

    Accordion duo Samsonite and Delight-Ya polkatize rock and roll.

  • Music

    December 12, 2002

    Critic's Choice

    El Vez

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    The Next Stage

    Jimy Murphy, the Kamikazi Kid, gets his act together.

  • News

    March 2, 2000

    Sex and the Single Mouse

    Radio Disney: Tune in and turn on.

  • Music

    May 13, 1999

    Growing Up in Public

    Mike Ness makes an album without so much Social Distortion.

  • Music

    January 22, 1998

    Accordion to Whom?

    Mike Ness makes an album without so much Social Distortion.

  • Music

    August 7, 1997

    Feedback

    Mike Ness makes an album without so much Social Distortion.

  • Music

    April 24, 1997

    Future Shock

    Is electronica the next big thing, or another passing fancy?

  • Music

    October 17, 1996

    How the West Was Ween

    Gene and Dean Ween take on country music and live to tell the tale.

  • Music

    August 22, 1996

    Feedback

    Gene and Dean Ween take on country music and live to tell the tale.

  • Culture

    June 20, 1996

    Waller of Sound

    Gene and Dean Ween take on country music and live to tell the tale.

  • Music

    May 2, 1996

    Playlist

    Gene and Dean Ween take on country music and live to tell the tale.

  • Music

    February 7, 1996

    PLAYLIST

    Gene and Dean Ween take on country music and live to tell the tale.

  • Music

    August 2, 1995

    JILL OUT!

    JILL SOBULE IS KEEPING HER BEDROOM PROCLIVITIES TO HERSELF.

  • Music

    January 11, 1995

    CRITIC'S CHOICE

    JILL SOBULE IS KEEPING HER BEDROOM PROCLIVITIES TO HERSELF.

  • News

    February 2, 1994

    DANGEROUS LIAISONS

    JILL SOBULE IS KEEPING HER BEDROOM PROCLIVITIES TO HERSELF.

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