Weird Al Yankovic

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Muy Caliente Summer Edition

Album Covers Of The Year 2006

To their credit, Pitchfork compiled a more-or-less well done 25 worst album covers of the year list, but they're remiss in not recognizing the power of a well done album cover. Rather than complain, we're taking matters into our own hands and making a list of our own. If RIAA doomsayers are to be be ... More >>

All's Fair in Love and OC

When it's the opening day of the Orange County Fair, you have plenty of time in traffic — an hour, in fact, just to get from Santa Ana to the fairgrounds — to realize just how poorly the 55 is designed. Immediately after some major road feeds into it, forcing a mass slowing as a new torrent of c ... More >>

Last Night: Coco B's, Gran Ronde, Brookline at Detroit Bar

Coco B's, Gran Ronde, Brookline At Detroit Bar February 8, 2008 Better than: Accordion lessons with Weird Al Yancovic. Download: On and On by Gran Ronde. About 30 minutes after parking myself at stool at Detroit Bar, I had downed a Whiskey Sour, a Vodka Cranberry and a glass of Guinness. Usually ... More >>

Joan of Dark

Joan Jett can do whatever she wants

More Bitchen Than Bitchin Camaro

Dead Milkmen tribute comp brings them back alive

[CD Review] MC Lars, 'This Giant Robot Kills' (Crappy Records)

Dead Milkmen tribute comp brings them back alive

Pottymouths

Blowfly

Huge Coup

Nightlife and more: Nov. 9-Nov. 16

Double the Horror

OnDVD: Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier

Diary of a Mad County

July 5 - July 11

For a Good Time . . .

Ren & Stimpys John Kricfalusi really wants you to see his show. R-e-e-e-ally

Shoo-it Oop Fattay

The Sex Pistols Experience re-re-enacts history, again

Dear Band

Alabaster Rhumb

Killing Them Loudly

When Tributes Attack

Fair Guys

Thinking Lou Reed, booking Weird Al

DAM BANDS!

Thinking Lou Reed, booking Weird Al

Not Ha Ha Funny

Atom and His Package loves his mom

NOFXPUMP UP THE VALUUMEPITAPH

Atom and His Package loves his mom

Brainwashed by Commies!

And Koko Taylors clam!

Whipped Whiteys and Other Delights: Seven Gabacho-Hating Mexican Songs

And Koko Taylors clam!

[CD Review] Ciara, 'Fantasy Ride' (Jive/RCA/LaFace)

And Koko Taylors clam!

"Weird Al" Pulls a Where's Waldo at Al Fest 2009

What if you threw an all-day festival dedicated to "Weird Al" Yankovic, and "Weird Al" Yankovic was a no show? Visitors to Al Fest 2009--which is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Holiday Inn in Costa Mesa--will find out. Buried far below the "attractions" listed in the pres ... More >>

UPDATE: Eat It! Michael Jackson To Get Butter Statue

If you didn't manage to get tickets to the MJ memorial at Staples Center tomorrow, fear not: you can probably still book a flight to Des Moines for the Iowa State Fair in August, when Jackson will be immortalized in butter. For ten days, the dairy King of Pop will stand next to the fair's traditiona ... More >>

The More the OC Fair Has Changed, the More Its Rites and Rituals Have Stayed the Same

If you didn't manage to get tickets to the MJ memorial at Staples Center tomorrow, fear not: you can probably still book a flight to Des Moines for the Iowa State Fair in August, when Jackson will be immortalized in butter. For ten days, the dairy King of Pop will stand next to the fair's traditiona ... More >>

Today In Music News: Lilith Fair Is Back, White Stripes, Lil Wayne, Pixies

Lilith Fair to return after 10-year hiatus with Tegan and Sara (Tegan and I were pals for 30-minutes once), Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris and many more.The White Stripes to release a "seriously awesomely sounding" live box set March 16.Lil Wayne's rock record, Rebirth, delayed for t ... More >>

Orange County Fair: We're No. 11 in the Country! OC Great Park: Cirque Shows Will Make Money!

OCFair.comClowning around at the '09 fair.​ As the battle rages over ownership of the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, the current OC Fair & Events Center operators are trumpeting the annual summertime event holding onto the No. 11 spot among the top fairs in the U.S.Meanwhile, down th ... More >>

NAMM and Nerds: And So It Begins!

THIS GUY!​We're heading out to the weekend-long NAMM Show extravaganza starting today. We'll keep an eye out for the latest gear, software, nerdy musician types, announcements that only the nerdy musician types would enjoy/care about at all--and, most importantly, the burnt out mega rockstars and ... More >>

Bids for the OC Fairgrounds: REJECTED!

​That's right fellow OC denizens, all bids on the Orange County Fairgrounds have been rejected. Which means you can look forward to more summers filled with deep-fried Twinkies, Zipper marathon runs, and high quality headliners like Weird Al Yankovic. For now...The Department of General Services, ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Ben Folds at the Anaheim House of Blues

Christopher Victorio​Click here for the slideshow!The Hype: Luckily for fans of comedy rock everywhere, Ben Folds exhibits two often mutually exclusive characteristics: genius and longevity. Borrowing from the template of  piano icons Billy Joel and Elton John, he has consistently produc ... More >>

Pac-Man Songs Inspired By Google Logo

​ This could be the best Google logo ever. EVER!!! I played it for 15 minutes before I realized I was supposed to be searching for something. And by then I'd forgotten what it was. So as a tribute to the brilliant folks at Google, who created the logo to celebrate Pac-Man's 30th anniversary as a g ... More >>

Royal Rumble at the OC Fair

In the battle between cover bands and aging rock stars, we tell you which music acts will give you the most bang for your buck

OC Fair

OC Fairgrounds

The Ultimate Comic-Con Playlist: 25 Songs For Geek Ears Only

Batman image: DC/Mike Allred​Lost in the pomp, glamour and sweet smells that swirl around the attendees of San Diego Comic-Con</sarcasm> are the mind-numbing blocks of boredom as you wait in line for panels, autographs, food, bathrooms and opportunities to sexually harass booth babes. O ... More >>

Weird Al Yankovic

Pacific Amphitheatre

Thank God it's Friday: Rumpspringa, Mississipi Man, Wavves, Abe Vigoda, the Growlers and Far East Movement Fill Out Your Weekend

Don't know what to do this weekend? Heard Mentality's got you covered.Rumpspringa​Tonight, Rumspringa appears with Mississippi Man at Alex's Bar in Long Beach. The LA-based band has been dealing with the obvious question about their name almost from the day they started (it's coming-of-age p ... More >>

Orange Bits: Ozzy Osbourne, Barrett Johnson, Rye Douglas

John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyOzzy at Barnes & Noble in Huntington Beach, back in February '09.​Sorry to leave you hanging for two Fridays, but Orange Bits--our weekly round up of all the OC-related music news that wasn't in the Weekly--is back. Rejoice:

Margaret Cho: Yes She Can (Sing, That Is)

Lindsey Byrnes​These days, you can tack on whatever label to Margaret Cho and it would be accurate--comedian, actor, reality TV star, singer. Yup, singer. On her first musical full-length, Cho Dependent, she collaborated with  Andrew Bird, Tegan and Sara, Fiona Apple, Patty Gri ... More >>

Tanya Petrovna of Native Foods, Part II

​Tanya Petrovna is the chef and owner of Native Foods. Her ever-expanding vegan eatery started out in Palm Springs in 1994, but we in OC know her best from her restaurant at The Camp, which is housed inside a yurt. She has two other restaurants in OC, not all of them in yurts, but serving the ... More >>

Eight Instruments Indie Bands Should Stay the Fuck Away From

Wendy Lynch/MyspaceModest Mouse​Ever notice what bizarre instruments indie rockers have been using on stage? It may enhance the sound at times, but whipping out a melodica or tuba always makes me wonder what the hell were they were thinking. Artists like Sufjan Stevens and Modest Mouse need to cut ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Wendy Lynch/MyspaceModest Mouse​Ever notice what bizarre instruments indie rockers have been using on stage? It may enhance the sound at times, but whipping out a melodica or tuba always makes me wonder what the hell were they were thinking. Artists like Sufjan Stevens and Modest Mouse need to cut ... More >>

Weird Al's 10 Darkest Moments

​You may know "Weird Al" Yankovic" as the "Eat It" guy (check out his bio on Twitter). After all, until 2006 his parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" was his highest charting single. And although he's made a name out of using other artists' songs to write funny stuff, he's gotten a lot of critica ... More >>

Dudley Jones Comedy Tribe Get Sick With Jokes About NyQuil

​Formed in good ol' Orange County in early 2010, Dudely Jones Comedy Tribe (Evan Cassidy, Alexa Green, and Andrew McCormick) is currently filming a 13 episode sketch comedy pilot/web series titled, "Dudely Jones Comedy Tribe Show." If you can't wait for their series you're in luck because they wil ... More >>

Weird Al's Lady Gaga Parody: 'Perform This Way' [VIDEO]

​Remember all the hoopla over Lady Gaga refusing to let Weird Al Yankovic spoof her song "Born This Way"? Well, that's over, since Weird Al just released a snippet of his parody video, "Perform This Way."In it, Yankovic superimposed his head on a woman's body, wearing a meat dress and porcupine h ... More >>

Full OC Fair 2011 Line Up Released

​Bob Dylan, Chris Isaak, Big Time Rush, Selena Gomez & The Scene, Blake Shelton, Weezer, Bill Cosby, Kansas, B.B. King and more--the 2011 OC Fair may be themed "Let's Eat!" but it has a pretty stellar music lineup--maybe one of the best in recent years. Super Pass holders may purchase terrace ... More >>

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Pacific Amphitheatre

Five Music-Related Things Kids Today Will Never Have

​Today I saw a list on Buzzfeed that named the 25 Things Kids Today Will Never Have. Five of those items were music-related, and I immediately got all nostalgic for those things as well. I listed them after the jump, with additional commentary on why they were important to us. Find out what techno ... More >>

Weird Al Yankovic: On Prince Rejecting Him, Star Wars Rumors and Getting Wrinkles

​On Thursday we're printing our full interview with Weird Al Yankovic to preview his Friday show at the City National Grove of Anaheim. But we couldn't wait to show you how the interview went, so we're preview a few tidbits off our conversation with the biggest selling comedy recording artist of a ... More >>

Weird Al Yankovic: Beyond the Music

The parody artist eschews songs on his latest venture and goes into children's literature

Ten Vegetarian Musicians with an Open Invite to My House for Thanksgiving Dinner

​I gotta be honest: I have a love/hate relationship with Thanksgiving.On the one hand, it's my vegetarian anniversary. I gave up meat on Thanksgiving 1997, which, for all you math failures, means this year marks the 14th Thanksgiving in a row since I've eaten meat. For that, I am excited and proud ... More >>