For 40 years, Barret Hansen, known on the airwaves as "Dr. Demento," has broadcast everything weird in the music world. The Dr. Demento Show has become a cult radio institution, providing an ...

Our guest Dr. Demento requires only five words: "Mad music and crazy comedy." That's how he describes the legendary Dr. Demento Show, which gave a radio home to songs like "Fish Heads," "Dead ...

All of this experience has perhaps made Hansen uniquely overqualified to assume the radio persona of Dr. Demento. While other disc jockeys were spinning hit records and adopting cool personas ...

After nearly 40 years of broadcasting catchy little tunes celebrating everything from dogs getting run over by lawnmowers to cockroaches devouring entire cities, Dr. Demento is discontinuing his ...

That station became the original home of Dr. Demento. He had come to L.A. from Oregon and worked as a roadie for a couple of rock bands. "Canned Heat and Spirit and then I got a job with Specialty ...

And if you listened to KMET, you likely listened to one of the most famous programs to ever originate from album-rock radio, Dr. Demento. Born Barret Eugene “Barry” Hansen, Dr. Demento wasn ...

Seattleite Rainn Wilson remembers when he first heard a song by “Weird Al” Yankovic on the Dr. Demento radio show not long after his family moved to Chicago when Wilson was 16. “I remember ...

Last weekend I discovered at the last minute that Barret Hansen — aka "Dr. Demento" — was going to be in town. He's an alum of Reed College in Portland, Ore., and apparently makes frequent ...

After nearly 40 years of broadcasting catchy little tunes celebrating everything from dogs getting run over by lawnmowers to cockroaches devouring entire cities, Dr. Dr. Demento Leaving Radio For ...