Weird Al Yankovic

The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis This Weekend: April 19 to 21

Stacked. That's what this weekend is -- stacks of records, stacks of bands, stacks and stacks of shows. There's so much going on lately that its a surprise RFT Music hasn't toppled over like a teetering Jenga tower (or has it? Google Chrome has trouble loading the website lately. Quit it!). Let's tr ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from April 15 to 21

Record Store Day approacheth! I won't say much this week. I have to reserve as much energy as possible with these vinyl-skimming digits, after all. Outside of all the events and after parties revolving around dear RSD, there's plenty to get out and see all week. Click ahead for our recommendations, ... More >>

Karaoke Night Sucks; What Do You Do?

Karaoke can be a dangerous endeavor. What can you sing that won't make friends shun you? How can you go balls-out during your next performance? Each week in "Ask a Karaoke Host," RFT Music writer and professional karaoke host Allison Babka answers your burning questions about maximizing your melodio ... More >>

The Six Most Uncool Members Of Cool Bands

Last week in this very column, we counted down the six coolest members of uncool bands. This week, we flip the script. Here are the six most uncool members of cool bands, and they're all probably really nice people. See Also: -The Six Coolest Members of Otherwise Uncool Bands

The Bonnaroo 2013 Lineup Announcement Is Here [Updated With Complete Lineup]

[UPDATE: The complete lineup is now on page two of this post.] Right now, even as I type this, Weird Al Yankovic is in the midst of a three-hour long live streaming video announcement for this year's Bonnaroo Festival, a four-day event that takes place every year in Manchester, Tennessee. As one wh ... More >>

War on Christmas: The Ten Best Songs for the Fight

The War on Christmas is upon us! Time to take sides! Did you know there was a War on Christmas? There is! Us Godless heathens are burning all the mangers, or at least politely asking that they not be forcibly erected (oh, I said it) in public spaces. But you know what? Fine. You want a War on Chri ... More >>

The Six Worst Songs in Movies

Last week, RFT Music editor Kiernan Malestky pointed out many great film and music cohabitations at this year's St. Louis Internationally Film Festival. But not every insertion of music into movies is as seamless as A Late Quartet. Here are the six worst uses of songs in movies. Let us know your pic ... More >>

How to Avoid Becoming a Walking Country Song in Five Easy Steps

Like many people, I had a brief but intense relationship with country music in the mid-1990s. College couldn't come quickly enough, and, with it, an appreciation for music that delved a little deeper than, "Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee/It gets hotter than a hoochie cootchie." Of course, tha ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Meet Ojo de Vidrio and the Mexican Weird Al

The Six Most Self-Aware Songs

Interesting things happen when a song realizes it is a song. Forms collapse, listeners become part of the writing process, and a track's guts become its skin. Here are the six most self-aware songs. Let us know what your favorites are, because we all know self-awareness is a common trait among those ... More >>

Tea Party Princess: Victoria Jackson went from the big leagues of comedy to the rabid right of modern politics

Megaupload Goes Down: Five Lost Music-Stealing Technologies

It's true: Megaupload has been gone an entire week, and for the millions of people who used the site because they like their totally legal for-pay cloud storage to come equipped with fake download links and massive flash banner ads I'm sure things have been difficult. For copyright holders, massiv ... More >>

A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume Nine: All Twelve Tracks, Streaming with Commentary

Roughly what we will look like after attending four Bert Dax Xmas release shows.​A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume Nine has now officially been released. The ninth annual X-Mas compilation, a joint release by Rob Severson from Pancake Productions (subject of a recent music feature) and Matt Ha ... More >>

Every Bert Dax Christmas Volume Nine Track, Streaming with Commentary: Part Three of Six

​A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume Nine has now officially been released. The ninth annual X-Mas compilation, a joint release by Rob Severson from Pancake Productions (subject of this week's music feature) and Matt Harnish of The Bert Dax Calvacade of Stars, features a pool of truly diverse lo ... More >>

Plympton Comes Alive

Five Things Madonna Ruined

Proof of No. 3 on this list​Madonna means many things to pop culture, and many of them are awesome. The problem: Some are life-sucking voids of horror. The list below documents the parts of her legacy -- strange, fleshy and unfathomable -- that involve ruining things with such subtle ferocity ... More >>

This Week's New Releases: Bon Iver, Jill Scott, Weird Al Yankovic

​Each Tuesday, record store clerks unpack boxes of albums and re-stock shelves with this week's newest music releases. There's a whole bunch of good stuff, so we've gathered a few notable albums as a starting. This batch includes parody craftsman Weird Al Yankovic, Grammy-winning singer Jill S ... More >>

Spotify's US Launch Approaches; Which Music Service Are You?

​Music fans in the United States don't have a lot to envy of their European brothers and sisters, at least unless they're big fans of Abba or the kind of sticky, glitter-covered dance-pop that usually just makes me really want to leave the youth hostel and brush my teeth. One exception: Spotif ... More >>

Weird Al Yankovic at the Family Arena, 6/3/11

Todd Owyoung​Weird Al Yankovic Family Arena June 3 As a youth, I can recall laughing helplessly while playing parodies like "Fat" and "Eat It" on my cassette deck. Back then, I never imagined that I'd one day be taking my own youngster to snicker at those very same songs at a Weird Al concert ... More >>

Ten Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: June 3-5

​Apparently there's some big music festival this weekend on Washington Avenue, but we hear the publication responsible for throwing it has already told you approximately one bajillion times. One more can't hurt. Meanwhile, there are many other great things happening in St. Louis music this wee ... More >>

Daily RFT Giveaway: Free Suite to Weird Al Yankovic Tonight!

Who wants some "Free" Al, tickets?​We've just come across passes to a corporate suite to tonight's "Weird Al" Yankovic concert at Family Arena. The package includes twelve tickets, three VIP parking passes and free beer and soda inside the suite. Do you and eleven of your wackiest friends want to ... More >>

Weird Al Yankovic In Town, Time Warped By Lady Gaga Parody

​"Weird Al" Yankovic, America's favorite Michael Jackson parodist this side of Chris Brown and the star of UHF, thirteen-year-old Male America's favorite movie this side of any movie where a woman is about to step into a shower, is coming to Effingham, Illinois on June 1 and St. Charles, Misso ... More >>

Skrillex, Natasha Bedingfield Among This Week's New Show Announcements

Sarah RusnakMarchFourth Marching Band at 2720 Cherokee in November 2010. ​Epic Show Week is upon us, and venues are getting their summer schedules on the books. Dubstep sorcerer Skrillex gets a proper date at the Pageant on July 12, presumably since he packed Sol Lounge earlier this year for a ... More >>

VH1 Enters Restaurant Reality Show Fray: 10 Famous Food Music Videos

VH1​ Because it's worked so well for Bravo ... VH1, whose motto used to be "Music First," announced Wednesday that it's jumping into the restaurant reality show fray. On the menu: Famous Food, which will feature a bunch of celebrities rehabbing a restaurant with Los Angeles restaurateurs Mik ... More >>

Freelance Whales, Jim Gaffigan and Weird Al among new show announcements

Foals: at Vintage Vinyl, April 23. ​Foals and Freelance Whales sold out the Firebird, but you can still see both at Vintage Vinyl. Oxford's Foals will be doing an electric set and New York's Freelance Whales will be adorable. You can also see Nat Baldwin of the Dirty Projectors, who is bringin ... More >>

Weird Al Yankovic Coming to the Family Arena

Image via​Pop's reigning satire king Weird Al Yankovic will be making his triumphant return to the St. Louis region on June 3rd, when he'll play the Family Arena in St. Charles. That's also where he played in August of 2008. Refresh yourself on the man's theatrical brilliance by revisiting hi ... More >>

Take Her to the Cabaret, Ray

Last Collector Standing: Michael Allen Has a Radiohead License Plate, a Cat Named Gibby Haynes and a Thing for Weird Vinyl

Jon Scorfina​The cultural sea change of downloading has not stopped Michael Allen's quest for vinyl LPs. A collector since childhood, Allen showed an early interest in this column and emailed us to be profiled. Though he is a self-proclaimed vinyl "junkie," it hasn't stopped him from taking ad ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of April 20

Canadian indie rockers Metric will grace St. Louis with their presence not once, but twice in the coming months; with Muse on November 5 and Lilith Fair on July 16. GET EXCITED. ​ Antarctica *Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk, May 13 BB's Jazz Blues and Soups *Eli Cook, June 9 Beale On Broadway * ... More >>

Judge Orders South Butt, North Face to Reach Agreement on Un-anatomical Differences

The most dangerous place to stand in St. Louis? Between attorney Albert S. Watkins, above, and a news crew's microphone!​A federal judge has ordered the outdoor clothing giant North Face and the tiny local apparel company it's suing, South Butt, to try to work out a solution to their conflict thro ... More >>

Pork You, Christmas

Thriller Night at the Bookstore, or How I Met Michael Jackson

flickr.com/photos/15373713@N06I must begin this story with a confession: I was probably the only kid in the 80s who didn't like Michael Jackson. Definitely the only kid at my school. (This was verified by a poll.) I listened to my friends' copies of Thriller and it did not move me.Part of this ... More >>

Muy Caliente Summer Edition: The Mexican explains why salsa (the music and the sauce) is so bland in America

We made you a mixtape! 2008: The year in music.

Over the Weekend: Weird Al Yankovic at Family Arena, '80s Prom at Gramophone, White Hot Party at rBar, Jon Hardy and the Public at The Chapel

Show Review Setlist: "Weird Al" Yankovic at Family Arena, Friday, August 8

Weird Al Yankovic: Outtakes from the Interview

Top 5 "Weird Al" Yankovic Videos

"Weird Al" Yankovic dares to be honest about Straight Outta Lynwood and his songwriting process, while Andrew McMahon of Jack’s Mannequin takes B-Sides on a ride with his new album, The Glass Passenger

Warped Tour darlings Cobra Starship discusses side projects and fanny packs, while the hidden history of Green Jellÿ is revealed

Smells Like Victory

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier

Mustard Plug

Saturday, January 15 (early show); Creepy Crawl

El Vez

Saturday, October 9; Blueberry Hill's Duck Room

Love's Labor Remixed

We strike out with the ladies, music-geek style, check out John Kerry's Behind the Music and hunt for Weird Al trivia

Fevered Pitch

Pitchfork is taking over music criticism by making people laugh -- or pissing them off

Support the Scene

Radar Station surfs the Web instead of going outside

TV or Not TV

While we're at it, let's debate the future of Double Helix Television

Deutschin' in the Street

The return of Strassenfest

Slick Shtick

Campy tribute to Allan Sherman delivers lots of laughs

Atom and His Package with Har Mar Superstar

Wednesday, May 9; Rocket Bar