Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

Come See Me at a Weird And Insane Afternoon With Nathan Rabin at Dynasty Typewriter, February 22nd, 3:30 PM!

For one enchanted afternoon, and one enchanted afternoon only, you can experience A Weird and Insane Afternoon with Nathan Rabin at 3:30 PM at Dynasty Typewriter, this Saturday, right before the second night of Juggalo Days in Los Angeles!

The Big Whoop, The Big Squeeze, The Weird Accordion To AlNathan RabinFebruary 19, 2020A Weird and Insane Afternoon With Nathan Rabin, Jamie Flam, The Long Shot, "Weird Al" Yankovic, The Weird Accordion to Al, Los Angeles, self-promotion, Juggalos

The Big Squeeze Day Sixteen: "The Brady Bunch" from In 3-D

Did Al invent the mash-up? I'm probably wrong, but I'm gonna say yes.

The Big Squeeze, The Weird Accordion To AlNathan RabinFebruary 18, 2020Men Without Hats, New Wave, The Weird Accordion to Al, television

The Big Squeeze Day Fifteen: "Midnight Star" from In 3-D

Al engages with tabloid culture and a particularly outrageous supermarket tabloid in a delightful album cut from Al’s first great record, In 3-D.

The Weird Accordion To Al, The Big Whoop, The Big SqueezeNathan RabinFebruary 13, 2020"Weird Al" Yankovic, The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place, In 3-D, Supermarkets, Don DeLillo, White Noise, Ronald Reagan

The Big Squeeze Day Thirteen: "Such A Groovy Guy" from "Weird Al" Yankovic

We close out Al's debut album with a song about a seriously creepy would-be womanizer.

The Weird Accordion To Al, The Big SqueezeNathan RabinFebruary 10, 2020"Weird Al" Yankovic, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place, Nathan Rabin, "Weird Al", The Weird Accordion To Al

The Big Squeeze Day Fourteen "Eat It" from In 3-D

We (and Al, and his band) hit the big time with Al's career-making hit "Eat It"

The Weird Accordion To Al, The Big SqueezeNathan RabinFebruary 10, 2020"Weird Al" Yankovic, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place, Michael Jackson, "Eat It", "Beat It", "In 3-D"

The Big Squeeze Day Twelve: "I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead" from "Weird Al" Yankovic

Al gets satirical in this fascinating attack on hippie dippy 1970s/80s New Age spirituality.

The Weird Accordion To Al, The Big SqueezeNathan RabinFebruary 7, 2020satire, Nathan Rabin, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

The Big Squeeze Day Eleven: "The Check's In The Mail" from "Weird Al" Yankovic

The journey continues with a breezy ode to insincerity

The Weird Accordion To Al, The Big SqueezeNathan RabinFebruary 7, 2020Rick Derringer, Richard Bennett, The Weird Accordion to Al, The Weird Accordion to Al book

The Weird Accordion to Al Book and the Cheap Majesty of Tacky Pop Music

You can’t love “Weird Al” Yankovic without also loving the often transcendently cheesy pop music he parodies

The Big Whoop, The Weird Accordion To AlNathan RabinFebruary 5, 2020"Weird Al" Yankovic, The Weird Accordion to Al, The Weird Accordion to Al book, pop, pop music

The Big Squeeze Day Ten: "Stop Draggin' My Car Around" from "Weird Al" Yankovic

Al parodies the late, endless mourned Tom Petty in the first non-single parody he ever released.

The Weird Accordion To Al, The Big SqueezeNathan RabinFebruary 5, 2020Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Parody

The Big Squeeze Day Nine: "Buckingham Blues" from "Weird Al" Yankovic

Everything old is new again as the current kerfuffle in the British royal family lends a new resonance and timeliness to Al’s bluesy tribute to Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

The Weird Accordion To Al, The Big SqueezeNathan RabinFebruary 4, 2020"Weird Al" Yankovic, The Weird Accordion To Al, Nathan Rabin, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place