One week from today (Tuesday, August 25), my 5-track digital EP “Internet Leaks” will be officially released. It’ll be on iTunes, Amazon… you know, all the usual places.
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve already heard 4/5 of the songs on it: My T.I. parody “Whatever You Like,” my Doors pastiche “Craigslist,” my Jungle Cruise homage “Skipper Dan” and my Charles Nelson Reilly tribute “CNR.”
The fifth and final track from “Internet Leaks” is called “Ringtone.” It will be released the same day as the EP – Tuesday the 25th. The video for it was done by the guys behind Current TV’s hilarious show “SuperNews” – and it will world-premiere this Friday night as part of a half-hour special show that I’m co-hosting with SuperNews creator Josh Faure-Brac. For more info on the show and where you can see it, go here.
If you’ve been holding out on buying these tracks individually up until now, you can pick all five up in one fell swoop on Tuesday. Who knows, maybe “Internet Leaks” will even chart like a “real” album!
The songs on “Internet Leaks” will all show up again on my next full album release, whenever that is (I’m assuming next year sometime, but there’s no way to be sure). Some people may say, “Why should I buy the ‘Internet Leaks’ tracks now when they’re going to be on your next album anyway?” Well, if all you’re interested in is the physical CD, and you don’t mind waiting a year or so… you probably SHOULDN’T buy the tracks now. Nobody’s forcing you to buy the songs twice – I just wanted to make the tracks available so everybody could enjoy them as early as possible.
By the way, if you DO purchase “Internet Leaks” now, you’ll be able to take advantage of iTunes’ “Complete My Album” function when the full album becomes available. You’ll be able to painlessly add the missing tracks, and the full purchase price of “Internet Leaks” will be deducted from the cost of the album.
While I’m thinking of it, HUGE thanks go out to Liam Lynch, Divya Srinivasan and the folks at JibJab, who made the videos for “Craigslist,” “Skipper Dan” and “CNR,” respectively. If you haven’t seen those videos yet, check them out on my YouTube page. Or if YouTube won’t let you watch them for some crazy reason, try here.
In other news… “Al’s Brain” finished up a successful run at the Orange County Fair – a quarter of a million people so far have seen my 3-D movie, and the reviews have been fantastic. If you live in the Western Washington area, be sure to look for it at the Puyallup Fair next month!
And last week, I passed the “one million followers” threshold on Twitter. (Did Ashton Kutcher beat me to it? I haven’t really been paying attention.) Anyway, I’ve really been enjoying Twitter… in an obsessive-compulsive kind of way. If you’re not following me there already, check it out – I’m at twitter.com/alyankovic.
Other than that, I’ve been enjoying the summer with my family, and I’ve had a great time reading everybody’s tweets, posts and comments. Thanks so much for all the kind words about the new songs and videos!
Al
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I would like to see you write a song based on Toby Keith’s “Red Solo Cup”, but replace the lyrics with “Red Velvet Cake”. You could do something about how much we love to eat it, and how fat our asses are getting, but we still can not stop eating it, and refer to Ben & Jerry’s Red Velvet Cake Ice Cream. We could also talk sing about the history, which is readily available on line. For example, it was originally developed in the late 1800’s by the chefs at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. I think it could be quite brilliant. I am actually preparing some lyrics of my own already. And yes, in case you care to know, I am a 45 year old white woman from the suburbs…..
Oh Mighty Weird One! I am a singer-songwriter of more or less “regular” songs with a Country twist..but have always done spoofs of other artists songs as well (for smaller venues than YOU!). But I have a GREAT parody of a Beatles song in a retirement home setting..that you could make into one HILARIOUS, CRAZY funny video like most of yours are.
It’s to the tune of “I Saw her Standing There”..(she was just Seventy-Seventeen..and lookin kinda mean).
My stuff is on: soundclick.com/carymcdonald
Al…This is Donny D from Big Daddy. Love your GaGa video. Now I got a crush on you…
Hey, Big Daddy’s got a new video on youtube- the Titanic 3D Trailer done Big Daddy style!
Check it out at:
Hope it gives you some laughs.
Donny D
Hey al your awesome im from australia are you coming to australia for your alpocolpyes tour
Hey al your awesome im from australia are you coming to australia for your alpocolpyes tour also i have a cople of parodys sbd(silent but deadly) a parody of rhiannas sos.some one spilt my drink over a parody of iv got a hangover and thats it if there is more i shall tell you weird parodiest
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