Today is the 83rd birthday of Barret Hansen, aka 'Dr. Demento,' radio DJ, novelty song king, and 'Weird Al' Yankovic's earliest champion.5 more wild DJs:1) Symphony Sid: Using hipster lingo and championing Black jazz artists, he introduced bebop to white audiences and broadcast live from Birdland in
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On September 27, Trouser Press Books will publish Time Has Come Today: Rock and Roll Diaries 1967 – 2007 by Harold Bronson. Early praise for the book has come in from the likes of Dr. Demento, legendary journalist and author Robert Hilburn, and others.
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Be sure to stick around for one of the best end-credit sequences ever conceived which, go figure, features the new (non-parody) Yankovic song “Now You Know.”