"As the zany-but-brainy on-air alter ego of music historian Barret Hansen, veteran radio show host Dr. Demento has championed the career of "Weird Al" Yankovic, the wacky music of humorists Spike Jones, Allen Sherman, Stan Freberg and Tom Lehrer, and obscure recordings that push the limits of propriety. - Less known is that he also was an early advocate of punk rock."
The Los Angeles Times reports that the album "Dr. Demento Covered in Punk" will feature "new recordings of "mad music and crazy comedy" songs long associated with the quirky radio emcee." Guest stars include Weird Al Yankovic, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, William Shatner, Adam West, the Vandals, Fred Schneider of the B-52's, the Misfits, Japan's Shonen Knife, Los Straitjackets, Missing Persons, the Dead Milkmen "and at least a dozen more."
Photo by Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times
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