Weird Al is censored on MTV?

Weird Al Yankovic |MTV Music

You might hear a little difference in the song compared to the original version. It's subtle so you might want to listen once or twice. [/sarcasm]

Link to the article on Crunch Gear

The New "Weird Al" Yankovic song is now on iTunes!

I just got on iTunes using my iTouch and heard a little sample of Weird Al's newest parody, "Whatever You Like." The song sounds pretty solid. I wasn't able to download the entire song because technology never works. Blurg! Oh well, I will download the rest of the song tonight when I get home and listen to it over and over and over. Let me know how you like the song and we can only wonder how long it will take for Mr. Yankovic to put out an entire album.

Weird Al will drop a new single on iTunes next week!

Straight from the man himself:

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NEW SINGLE!

Remember when I said I was going to start releasing tracks to iTunes as soon as I finished recording them? Well, I'm in the studio this very moment – and the first track released from my next album will be available on iTunes a week from today (October 7)!

This is extremely exciting for me. One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every 3 or 4 years. Now, with the advent and popularity of digital distribution, I don't have to wait around while my songs get old and dated – I can get them out on the Internet almost immediately. It kind of boggles my mind – I thought of the idea for this new song a week ago, and next week it's getting released!

I'm only supposed to "tease" this release right now – I'll post more info about it in a couple days. But I will say that it's a parody of a song that very recently was (or perhaps still is) the 1 song in the country. That would be another first for me – I don't think I've ever released a parody of a song while the original song was still 1!

iTunes will have an exclusive on this song for two weeks, after which I guess it will be available wherever else digital downloads are sold. But I'm really kind of hoping this sucker will chart, so if you can, please buy it the first week it's out!

If this release goes well, there will be more to come. Thanks in advance for your support!

Al

Guess who Steve and Michael met this week?

After going to the "Weird Al" concert in Baltimore, Steve and I give our $0.02 on the concert and our, all be it brief, meeting with Mr. Yankovic himself. We talk about the bar, the fans and of course the music in tonight's podcast. The two songs are a little of the old and a little of the new. The opening song was from Al's latest CD Straight Outta Lynwood. Albuquerque is from the Running With Scissors album.

Top 27 "Weird Al" Yankovic Hits (Part 1)

After reading an article on Digg about someone's top 11 Weird Al Hits, Steve and I though we should come up with our own list. But 11 was lame, it had to be 27. The podcast went long so this is part one and we will put up part two next week.

[editor note: we talk about the opening song being "Fun Zone" but I put "Since You've Been Gone" because I drink too much when I podcast.]

What's your favorite Al song? leave a comment!

Michael

DAP Geeks out on HDTV

Tonight's podcast we geek out about our new HDTV sets. Never heard of HDTV? Not likely if you listen to podcasts, but just in case we talk a lot (more than we should) about the new technology out there for the man who doesn't want to spend more than $1,500 on a new television.

The show was recorded on Skype via PowerGramo. I don't think it sounds too bad but let me know what you think and send me a quick note to the deadairpodcast@gmail.com inbox.








The opening song was none other than "Weird Al" Yankovic and his wonderful Frank's 2000 inch TV. You can find that on his Alapalooza album which is for sale on his website, weirdal.com.


The closing song was from the band Gnarls Barkley, "Transformers" which you can find at Amazon.com.

Don't forget to check us out on itunes if you are not already subscribed to our podcast. You can also keep track of the websites we are digging, over at digg.com/users/deadairpodcast. There you will find all the articles we talk about on the show and others we never get to. Check out the HDMI story if you are interested in finding the best prices for HDMI cables and how much of a ripoff buying them at stores like Best Buy can be.

You can also check out the pictures of our new HDTV sets over at our Flickr group. Just click here!