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This weekend on the Dr. Demento Show, Dr. Demento will be playing “Keep It Funky” by SexySexy Joe Lavelle and mentioning the big April 11 benefit show. If you get Dr. Demento in your area, tune in. If you’re not sure if you get Dr. Demento in your area, there’s a list of stations here or you can listen to the show for $2.00 on DrDemento.com.

And if you need another reason or two to tune in, Dr. Demento will be playing “Happy Birthday” and “Bedrock Anthem” (both by Weird Al of course!) too!!

There’s now a video to accompany the story. It’s on MTV Overdrive, which is MTV’s online broadband channel! Tune in!

(It Works best with Internet Explorer.)

Check out the nice article by James Montgomery on MTV News — that’s right, MTV, the music video station that helped launch Al’s career!!

Newly Confirmed to Perform at the big April 11th weirdalstar.com benefit show!

Ray Don – www.myspace.com/raydonbackwashband

And with that, the final line-up has been set. Hope to see you there!

More details here or here.

Filter Magazine has a write-up about the upcoming April 11 benefit show. Check it out!

Weird Al Star Fund has a “Norman II” resin painted by Sarah Minkiewicz for auction on eBay. All proceeds from the auction go to benefit the star fund.

Newly Confirmed to Perform at the big April 11th weirdalstar.com benefit show!

Hard ‘n Phirm – www.hardnphirm.com

More details here or here.

In addition to being Pi Day, 30 years ago today, Dr. Demento introduced the world to a young accordion player who went by the name of Alfred Yankovic, in the form of his home-recorded song, “Belvedere Cruising.” Little Alfred would go on to become the most successful comedy recording artist of all time!! Happy anniversary Al!!

Hooray to Bermuda for keeping us all up-to-date on The Official “Weird Al” Yankovic Web Site:

AL IN THE STUDIO!
Al has finished recording and mixing the first nine songs for his new album. No word yet on when he and the band will be going back in the studio, but we’ll keep you posted!

The gallery on the Official Weird Al Site has just been updated with new pics of Al, Jim, Bermuda, and Steve working hard at the studio. And as an added bonus, you can feast your eyes upon six new fan arts. Woohoo!