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Shaky Knees but it’s looking awfully solid this year.The annual three-day affair just announced their 2025 lineup and they’re bringing in quite a few major players to grace their Piedmont Park stages from Sept. 19-21.Just a few of the biggest names swinging into the Gate City include alt-metal heroes Deftones, emo icons My Chemical Romance, punk vets Blink-182, indie rockers Vampire Weekend and the rootsy Alabama Shakes.Lenny Kravitz, The Black Keys, Cage The Elephant, Sublime and DEVO will be there as well.Exciting acts Public Enemy, TV On The Radio, Franz Ferdinand, 4 Non Blondes and Pixies round out the bill.Plus, you won’t want to forget special guest Weird Al is dropping in, too.In total, 53 artists are scheduled to perform at the 2025 Shaky Knees Festival.At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on three-day general admission passes was $440 before fees on Vivid Seats.Single-day passes start at $171 before fees.For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about the 2025 Shaky Knees Festival below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all the best prices on single and multi-day Shaky Knees passes can be found here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and, if it isn’t noted, will include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic‘s name has often “come up in conversations” over inductions into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.Chairman John Sykes recently spoke about the process around selecting and vetting candidates and confirmed that Yankovic’s name had come up.He told Vulture: “He’s a genius. He has made brilliant versions of the songs, but I’ll be honest, he’s never made it close to the ballot.”Sykes also said Phil Collins, The B-52s, Pixies and Joe Cocker have also been discussed.Speaking about Collins he added: “He’s come up in meetings so much.

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic and Will Forte played a faithful rendition of Chappell Roan’s ‘Hot To Go!’ at a benefit concert in Kansas City on Saturday (November 9).The performance came during the annual Thundergong! Show at the city’s Uptown Theater, which is organised by Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis, and supports Steps of Faith, a charity that helps individuals with amputations to get prosthetic limbs.Actor and comedian Forte, known for Saturday Night Live and The Lego Movie, introduced the song by suggesting to Yankovic that instead of going for the latter’s usual parody style, they should instead play the song straight.“You are known for taking current songs and changing the lyrics around, but what if we sang a song right now that’s current where we didn’t change the lyrics?” Forte said.“Not change the lyrics? What a novel concept, that’s a great idea.

Weird Al just announced he’s embarking on his ‘Bigger & Weirder Tour’ that will send him and special guest Puddles Pity Party to venues all over North America from June from September 2025.Early in the run, the “Like A Surgeon” singer will make four stops in New York.First, Yankovic is slated to swing into Buffalo’s Darien Lake Amphitheater on July 11. After that, he’ll bring his one-of-a-kind parodies to New York City’s Madison Square Garden on July 12, Bethel’s Bethel Woods Center For The Arts on July 13 and Saratoga Springs’ Saratoga Performing Arts Center on July 17.And, yes, Weird Al really is going bigger and weirder this time as promised.“We’re back to doing a full-production high-energy show and playing the hits… and we’re super-sizing the band for this one – adding 4 more musicians! – so we can play a few things we’ve never been able to play live before!” the 64-year-old shared on Instagram.

Kihn led the group The Greg Kihn Band for nearly five decades, and their most successful chart hit ‘Jeopardy’ – which reached Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 – would go on to be famously parodied by ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic with his ‘I Lost On Jeopardy’ in 1984.He was born on July 10, 1949 in Baltimore and was inspired into a career in music by The Beatles’ legendary performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.He was signed to Berserkley Records in 1973, sharing the label with the likes of Jonathan Richman and The Rubinoos, quickly becoming associated with the Bay Area power pop sound.“We weren’t like the other SF bands,” he said in 2018, however. “Our music was derived from the British bands like The Who and the Faces.

The Linda Lindas have shared a new single called ‘Yo Me Estreso’, featuring “Weird Al” Yankovic. Listen below.The song is the latest preview of the Los Angeles band’s second studio album ‘No Obligation’, which is due for release on October 11 via Epitaph (pre-order/pre-save here).

Daniel Radcliffe is opening up about getting a lot of support from his parents when he first started too pursue a career as an actor.The actor — who stars in the forthcoming parody biopic  — recently sat down with ET, and was joined by co-star Evan Rachel Wood and director Eric Appel.In the film, Radcliffe portrays the famed accordion-toting parody musician, who — in the context of the over-the-top and largely fictitious story — was told by his parents at a young age to give up on his dreams and stop being himself.For Radcliffe, however, this was about as far from his own experience as a young dreamer as possible.«My parents were incredible. They were really supportive,» he recalled.

parody songwriter Weird Al Yankovic tweeted a touching photo with the late rapper Coolio, shortly after the ’90s rap sensation died on Wednesday at 59 from cardiac arrest in Los Angeles.But it wasn’t so long ago that the two artists had beef over the funny man’s successful spoof of the rapper’s 1995 Grammy-winning “Gangsta’s Paradise,” featured on the triple-platinum certified soundtrack to the film “Dangerous Minds.” Yankovic’s chart-topping cult favorite “Amish Paradise” sarcastically depicted the plain people as hardened street folk. Coolio had expressed disapproval ahead of the track’s release.“They asked me if they could do it and I said no and they did it anyway,” the rapper told Uncensored Truth Podcast in 2021.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story has been praised in early reviews following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.Directed by Eric Appel in his directorial debut, the biographical parody film stars Daniel Radcliffe as ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic and loosely follows the musician’s life and career, while serving as a satire of the biopic genre.Alongside Radcliffe, the film stars Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna, Rainn Wilson as Dr. Demento, and Toby Huss and Julianne Nicholson as Al’s parents.

Daniel Radcliffe doesn't have to look far for fitness inspiration! ET's Rachel Smith spoke to the 33-year-old actor at the premiere of his upcoming flick, , at the Toronto International Film Festival, and he revealed how his parents served as two of his major fitness influences as he geared up to be shirtless in the film.«There is a bizarre thing that happened this year — I was shirtless more as Al than I’ve been in anything else,» Radcliffe told ET. "… An article about the film came out saying that I got in shape for this role, which I didn’t. My parents do CrossFit.

rocky romance with Madonna, who then became a Yoko Ono-esque wedge between him and his band. Michael Jackson definitely did not release “Beat It” after Yankovic wrote “Eat It.” Was cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar a Weird Al superfan who offered him 1 billion pesos to perform at his birthday party? Who’s to say?What Yankovic and director/co-writer Eric Appel have done, brilliantly in spots, is parody Yankovic’s own life while sending up the whole biopic genre.

Daniel Radcliffe-starring ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic biopic WEIRD has been released – check it out below.The film – full title WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story – will be released via The Roku Channel on November 4 after a premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next week (September 8).The Harry Potter actor will play the beloved comedian and musician in the film, which promises to follow Yankovic’s life “from his rise to fame in the music industry to his celebrity love affairs”.The new trailer, which follows a teaser trailer shared earlier this year, sees Radcliffe as ‘Weird Al’ as he writes ‘My Bologna’ and enters into a romantic relationship with Madonna (played by Evan Rachel Wood).Check it out below.Speaking about playing Yankovic, Radcliffe told The Hollywood Reporter: “Wearing the Hawaiian shirt is a huge responsibility that I don’t take lightly, and I’m honoured to finally share with the world the absolutely 100 per cent unassailably true story of Weird Al’s depraved and scandalous life.”“When my last movie UHF came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork. I’m very happy to say we’re on schedule,” Yankovic said in a previous statement.“And I am absolutely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe will be portraying me in the film.

Daniel Radcliffe makes the full transformation into the parody king, «Weird Al» Yakovic! On Monday, the trailer for the upcoming Roku original Story dropped and gave the world a closer look at the man who changed music for the weird. The trailer begins as Al literally kicks in the door and tosses a tape to a record executive (played by the actual «Weird Al» Yankovic) and says, “Put in it.”  “I’m tired of people thinking I'm some kind of joke,” Radcliffe’s Al says as a clip of him as a young boy being shamed by his parents plays.“My whole life, all I wanted is to make up new words to a song that already exists,” he says amid a scene of the police bringing him home from a polka party to his disappointed parents.  After Al gets the approval from his friends, and future bandmates, the almost 3-minute trailer cuts into his life as a musician best known for making parodies of songs that topped the charts.

Quinta Brunson has transformed into TV royalty. The star and creator is slated to take on the role of Oprah Winfrey in The Roku Channel and director Eric Appel's upcoming biopic, , coming this fall.In newly released stills from the highly anticipated project, the actress' transformation into the daytime talk show icon was revealed for the first time.

liked and shared the tweet, which went viral.Yankovic is known for his expert approach to parodies on songs such as “Eat It” to the tune of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” and “Like a Surgeon” for Madonna’s classic ‘80s song “Like a Virgin.”Reminding everyone he’s the true wizard with words, Yankovic tweeted back to the vocal powerhouse, “Hey! Stay in your lane!”Lynda Carter, who starred as “Wonder Woman” in the ‘70s, added a few more lines to Morissette’s rendition.“It’s not fair, to deny me of the shrubs and trees you would plant for me,” she tweeted, which garnered thousands of likes.While Yankovic, whose full name is Alfred Matthew Yankovic, hasn’t fully parodied any of Morissette’s songs, he created part of a parody, “Fast Food,” played to her song “Thank You,” which was in a medley of performances from a 1999-2000 tour.He also added a portion of “You Oughta Know” to his “Alternative Polka” medley years ago.

Beck has said that he regrets rejecting Weird Al Yankovic’s request to parody ‘Loser’.Yankovic had asked to cover Beck’s hit in the mid-’90s but he turned him down, fearing that he was already not being taken seriously as an artist.At the time of Beck’s breakout success with ‘Loser’, he was facing what he today remembers as a barrage of negative press.Beck said in a preview of his upcoming Audible Original premiered by Billboard that he was worried the move would vindicate industry bosses and journalists who regarded his songs as “hodgepodge ideas” that weren’t “real songs”.“‘Weird Al’ Yankovic tried to do a parody of it. It was going to be called ‘Schmoozer’,” Beck recalled in the preview. “I regret denying him permission to do it.

“Weird Al” Yankovic is set to feature in his own graphic novel.The titular musician and actor has teamed up with Z2 Comics for The Illustrated Al: The Songs Of “Weird Al” Yankovic, which features illustrated interpretations of over 20 of his songs.“It’s such an incredible honour to see my song lyrics brought to life by some of my all-time favourite cartoonists and illustrators,” Yankovic said of the book in a statement via Pitchfork.“I’ve actually been playing the long game – the only reason I spent four decades in the music business is so that one day I could have my very own graphic novel.”@alyankovic pens his own incredibly weird graphic novel alongside a team of talented creators — and CBR has an exclusive look at some of the art.https://t.co/WcDkbmUpJ3@dannyhellman @AllredMD @plymptoons @augenblicknyc @PeterBagge1 @therealsobreiro @gideonkendall @MKupperman pic.twitter.com/LCeCGPmZ9q— Comic Book Resources (@CBR) May 25, 2022It will be available in paperback and hardcover formats, as well as an oversized hardcover deluxe edition, and an oversized hardcover deluxe hand-signed edition.Deluxe editions include a wax pack of collector’s cards, a three-piece art print set, a vinyl slipmat and drink coasters.

Daniel Radcliffe takes on the parody-producing "Weird Al" Yankovic in the first trailer for . In the first look at the Roku Channel original movie — due out this fall — Radcliffe not only physically transforms into the curly-haired mustached singer but adopts his eccentric personality too as he's seen crafting and performing some of his most iconic songs.Released at Roku's 2022 NewFronts presentation Tuesday, the teaser also shows off the  star's toned physique as he's seen bare-chested, taking a swig from a bottle before spitting it into the air during one of his many live performances.«Anyone got an accordion?» Radcliffe as Yankovic says dramatically in the trailer.According to a tongue-in-cheek release for the upcoming biopic, the film «holds nothing back, exploring every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle.»The movie also promises to bring «audiences on a truly unbelievable journey through Yankovic's life and career, from gifted child prodigy to the greatest musical legend of all time,» and will fulfill Yankovic's promise to release a new film every «33 years.»«When my last movie came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork.

WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story starring Daniel Radcliffe has just been released.The forthcoming film, in which Radcliffe will play the beloved comedian and musician, started production earlier this year.WEIRD: The Weird Al Yankovic Story promises to follow Yankovic’s life “from his rise to fame in the music industry to his celebrity love affairs”, according to a synopsis.Speaking about playing Yankovic, Radcliffe told The Hollywood Reporter: “Wearing the Hawaiian shirt is a huge responsibility that I don’t take lightly, and I’m honoured to finally share with the world the absolutely 100 per cent unassailably true story of Weird Al’s depraved and scandalous life.”Take a look at the film’s trailer below: “When my last movie UHF came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork. I’m very happy to say we’re on schedule,” Yankovic said in a previous statement.“And I am absolutely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe will be portraying me in the film.

Daniel Radcliffe is ready for the world to see his transformation into 'Weird Al' Yankovic for the upcoming biopic about the comedian's life. Last month, fans got a sneak peek of Radcliffe in character, and while his embodiment of Yankovic did require some time in the hair and makeup chair, one part of his look was all his own. «I grew the mustache, so the mustache was mine 'cause I didn't want to wear a fake one every day,» the 32-year-old actor told ET's Cassie DiLaura while at the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals' premiere in Austin, Texas, adding that the wig was «pretty quick» to get on and off. Radcliffe said Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Madonna in the biopic, had «much more of an involved process» in getting her look right.

Daniel Radcliffe is gearing up to play "Weird Al" Yankovic in a new Roku Channel biopic about the life and career of the man behind the Grammy-winning parodies.In new photos from the set of  taken earlier this month in Los Angeles, the 32-year-old star, dressed in a camouflage short-sleeved button-up with a pair of plain black jeans and checkered Vans slip on shoes, is hardly recognizable in Yankovic's infamous curly 'do and mustache combo, as he's seen making his way through the film's set with an iced coffee in hand. According to a tongue-in-cheek release for the upcoming biopic, the film «holds nothing back, exploring every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle.»The movie also promises to bring «audiences on a truly unbelievable journey through Yankovic's life and career, from gifted child prodigy to the greatest musical legend of all time.»Yankovic, who serves as a writer for the biopic, said he was «thrilled» to have Radcliffe portray him in the story about his life.«I am absolutely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe will be portraying me in the film,» Yankovic gushed. «I have no doubt whatsoever that this is the role future generations will remember him for.»«When my last movie UHF came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork.