Stereogum — Weird Al Yankovic has pretty much dominated the week in music, which is objectively awesome — I haven’t listened to this much Weird Al since I was blasting “Amish Paradise” as a 6-year-old. We’ve gotten amazing videos for his parodies of Lo... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Weird Al Yankovic is not only winning the Internet this week, he's doing so in Germany-vs-Brazil like fashion. As part of the rollout to his new masterpiece "Mandatory Fun," the king of music parodies has been unveiling a video per day, and so far he... more info

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Stereogum — The latest in Weird Al Yankovic’s eight-videos-in-eight-days Mandatory Fun rollout plan is “Foil,” his parody of Lorde’s “Royals.” What begins as a celebration of preserving leftover food spirals into a conspiracy theory anthem — tin fo... more info

Stereogum — “Team,” the second hit single from Lorde’s blockbuster debut album Pure Heroine, has been remixed by White Sea, AKA M83 member Morgan Kibby, who released her own strong In Cold Blood this year. Kibby bookended “Team” with some extra orchest... more info

Stereogum — A couple of weeks ago, comedy-rock god “Weird Al” Yankovic teased the forthcoming release of his new LP Mandatory Fun, which will be his 14th studio album and which may turn out to be his last. All we knew about it was that it would include a per... more info

Stereogum — Majical Cloudz are currently poised for exposure to a massive new audience now that they’re going to open for Lorde on her North American tour. The group’s first release since that news certainly says something about how to handle that exposure w... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Royals singer reveals there are worse role models in the world than RiRi... more info

NME — New Zealand based singer played with Dave Grohl and Novoselic earlier this year more info

Stereogum — The Canadian music network Much Music is the station that employs Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham as a VJ, but it’s still best understood as a more-local MTV analog, something that comes through pretty clearly if you look at the station’s annua... more info