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"Weird Al" Show A Religious Experience

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By Evan Dickson (CHARTattack) July 12, 2007 1:00 pm
At 7:50 p.m., the sidewalk outside of Massey Hall was thick with people. Bustling into the theatre, my concert buddy and I shouldered past every demographic you could name: grandmas in Hawaiian shirts, 10-year-old boys, twenty-something hipsters (sans irony, I assure you), even a dad with a "Weird Al" sticker slapped on his bald...
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Weird Al — Straight Outta Lynwood

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By James Simons (CHARTattack) October 31, 2006 8:58 pm
They don't call "Weird Al" the prince of pop parody for nothing. OK, they don't call him that at all. But they should: it's a great alliteration and it's true as shit. On his 12th album, Al recasts "Trapped In The Closet" as another food-themed classic that's almost as funny as R. Kelly's original. He also adds a few more...
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I Read The News Today... For June 23, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff June 23, 2010 1:35 pm
Blink-182 singer/bassist Mark Hoppus is getting his own weekly TV show on Fuse, the station that used to be known as MuchUSA south of the 49th parallel. Expect plenty of poo and pee jokes. —Alternative Press Wintersleep have announced some European and North American tour dates for this fall. They'll link up with The Besnard Lakes for some of...
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Pixies With "Weird Al" Yankovic — "I Bleed" (Live)

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By CHARTattack Staff December 10, 2009 12:02 pm
"Weird Al" Yankovic appeared with Pixies on Tuesday (Dec. 8) night at Los Angeles' Echoplex during their benefit show for Winston's Village. Yankovic performed the vocals, while the rest of the band did their thing and let him freak out. Flea, Tenacious D, OK Go and Bauhaus' David J also made appearances at the show.
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Weird Al To Join Pixies At Benefit Show

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 4, 2009 4:14 pm
In what's obviously a nerdy person's dream, Weird Al Yankovic will sing the Pixies' "I Bleed" with the Boston band at a benefit show in Los Angeles next month. Yankovic will appear with the band at the Dec. 8 show in support of Winston's Village at the Echoplex. It's part of a two-night event that's intended to raise funds for the...
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Weird Al Yankovic - The Essential Weird Al Yankovic

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) October 28, 2009 11:26 am
It sounded like a real good idea when we started it — two full discs and 38 songs of Weird Al — but let me tell ya, 38 songs worth of Weird Al when you're trying to work is a lot of Weird Al. It ended up taking us a week to listen to this all the way through. Don't get us wrong, we still love Al around here. But our love is best doled out in...
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James Blunt Is A Humourless Twat

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) July 23, 2009 3:58 pm
James Blunt is a serious artist, dammit. He's more serious, in fact, than Queen, Joan Jett And The Blackhearts, Eminem and Michael Jackson (amongst others). Blunt is above being parodied by that menace to modern music, Weird Al Yankovic. While Yankovic compiled a list of songs for his upcoming two-CD greatest hits compilation, he was notified...
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"Weird Al" Yankovic — "Craigslist"

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By CHARTattack Staff June 16, 2009 11:32 am
Weird Al's latest parody, "Craigslist," makes fun of The Doors' "When The Music's Over," from 1967's Strange Days. The track features Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, and the video was directed by Liam Lynch (yes, this Liam Lynch). While we think the track is not quite as effective as Yankovic's other parodies, like...
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Weird Al Yankovic At Massey Hall

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
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Massey Hall
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Toronto, ON
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July 10, 2007
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Weird Al Yankovic At Massey Hall

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
Venue: 
Massey Hall
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
July 10, 2007
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Weird Al Yankovic At Massey Hall

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
Venue: 
Massey Hall
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
July 10, 2007
Weird Al Yankovic

Weird Al Yankovic At Massey Hall

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
Venue: 
Massey Hall
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
July 10, 2007
Weird Al Yankovic

Weird Al Yankovic At Massey Hall

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
Venue: 
Massey Hall
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
July 10, 2007
Weird Al Yankovic

Weird Al Yankovic At Massey Hall

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
Venue: 
Massey Hall
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
July 10, 2007
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"Weird Al" Yankovic: King Of Nerds

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By Evan Dickson (CHARTattack) September 28, 2007 3:30 pm
The equation is simple: if you don't like "Weird Al" you've got no soul. We here at ChartAttack are full of soul, so it only made sense that we interviewed the true King Of Pop. ChartAttack: Were you a nerd when you were a kid? Do you think of yourself as a nerd now? "Weird Al" Yankovic: Now I'm king of the nerds. I've...
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"Weird Al" Is A Regular Nerd

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By Evan Dickson (CHARTattack) July 10, 2007 6:00 pm
"Weird Al" Yankovic is the king of nerds, an inspiration to geeks everywhere, sometimes even an inadvertent life saver. He's also a regular guy. Sitting cross-legged on a black leather couch at Sony BMG's Liberty Street offices in Toronto, he listens calmly to my questions and answers them thoughtfully. Off camera, he's not the...
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"Weird Al" Is More Popular Now Than Ever

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By James Simons (CHARTattack) October 30, 2006 6:00 pm
Kurt Cobain called "Weird Al" Yankovic a "rock genius" and Homer Simpson noted that "it would take a man of stone with a funny bone of steel" to resist him. Meanwhile, thousands of everyday folks have approached him over the past two decades to swear their undying loyalty and, possibly, to lob a few song ideas his...
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Yankovic Fans Want Rock Hall Of Fame To Get Weirder

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By Justin Krever (CHARTattack) April 26, 2005 3:00 pm
Fans of music satirist Weird Al Yankovic are hosting a campaign in hopes of getting The Weird One inducted into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame. The "Make The Rock Hall Weird" campaign is specifically urging Canadian Yankovic admirers to send letters to the Hall Of Fame Foundation in New York in an effort to convince the Hall that the...
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Weird Al Takes On Avril Lavigne

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By CHARTattack Staff May 7, 2003 1:00 pm
Weird Al Yankovic has poked fun at a lot of artists in his double-decade long career: Madonna, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers and, of course, Michael Jackson. While Weird Al's music appeals to few people over the age of 13, you've got to admit that a parody by the man that dares to be stupid is a rite of passage for any popular pop star....
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