The Witzard

Star Wars Songs by Cloud City Soundtrack Tony Thaxton is, likely, best known as the drummer for Pop Punk/Emo band, Motion City Soundtrack ; first joining the band around 2001-02 through 2013 and returning again for Motion City Soundtrack 's 2016 "farewell" tour and their upcoming DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK 2020/"reunion" tour. Thaxton currently drums for Tiny Stills & Don't Stop or We'll Die , in addition to Motion City Soundtrack . Although, over the years, he has, also, played drums for/with Aimee Mann , "Weird Al" Yankovic, Jonah Ray , Ted Leo, Braid , and Paul F. Tompkins. During his various stints and gigs, Tony Thaxton has become an accomplished podcast creator and producer for his own Feliz Navipod! , Cloud City Soundtrack, and, most recently, Bizarre Albums , as well as Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend. Cloud City Soundtrack , in particular, is a "weekly Star Wars comedy music video" series, as well as a compani...

Many of our trusty readers/music "nerds" may well know Jonah Ray from either Mystery Science Theater 3,000 (MST3K) or The Nerdist Podcast or even his band, Pressers with Cody Votolato from The Blood Brothers/King Krule and Denver Dalley from Desaparecidos/Har Mar Superstar. Come to find out, Jonah is, also, a member of the esteemed Hawaiian Punk scene, which I didn't even know existed until writing this very sentence! Now, Jonah Ray has joined forces with Mike Park & Asian Man Records for his first ever solo musical release, You Can't Call Me Al . It's a collection of five "Weird" Al Yankovic classics paired with original music, in the vein of said Hawaiian Punk scene; "the result is a crazy mish-mash of Atom & His Package meets Jeff Rosenstock meets Weezer meets warmed hearts," reads an on-site Asian Man Records product description. Jonah Ray 's You Can't Call Me Al EP will feature charismatically Punk-ified rend...