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 ...

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 ...

Of course, it's not exactly Hansen they're going to see. Instead the draw is Hansen's radio alter ego, Dr. Demento, who for more than three decades has been playing comedy, novelty and just plain ...

It’s taken four decades of weird sounding radio for him to get it, but Dr. Demento is taking the sounds of garbled fish, dogs being chased down by lawn equipment and penchance to introduce ...

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 ...

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 ...

Good songs for ghosts-and-goblins night, enumerated by musicologist and walking pop encyclopedia Dr. Demento. (Dr. Demento`s radio show can be heard Sunday nights, beginning at 11 p.m., on WLUP-FM ...

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 ...

Today, the longtime novelty-song radio host Dr. Demento released a double-CD compilation called Dr. Demento Covered In Punk. It’s got punk bands covering novelty songs and funny-music types ...