Last Call: Your Murfie Week in Review

 

Mon. 7/7	[Twitter] We recommended pre-ordering new albums by Anand Wilder and Cloud Boat. [Twitter] We bumped some reggae tunes on the office Sonos PLAY:5.
Tues. 7/8	[Blog] We previewed the upcoming album Terms of My Surrender by John Hiatt. [Website] We re-vamped and improved search on murfie.com.
Weds. 7/9	[Blog] Wishy Wednesday delighted a few lucky Murfie members. [Twitter] Our CEO Matt Younkle shared a cool article about music ownership vs. rental. [Blog] We previewed Weird Al’s newest album Mandatory Fun. [Twitter] We recommended pre-ordering Trampled by Turtles’ upcoming album.
Thurs. 7/10	[Blog] Andrew wrote a review of Radiohead’s career. [Twitter] We reacted to an awesome article about CD collecting.
Fri. 7/11	[Blog] Andrew recommended a few albums to fans of Bruce Springsteen. [Twitter] We suggested Murfie as a way to #declutter CDs.

Album Preview: “Mandatory Fun” by Weird Al Yankovic

Album
Mandatory Fun

Artist
Weird Al Yankovic

Release Date
Tuesday, July 15

Label
RCA

Pre-order Link
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Preview
Very few artists are able to successfully splice comedy into music, yet Weird Al Yankovic has enjoyed a prolific career spanning over three decades. From his humble beginnings with comedy radio in the late 1970’s, Weird Al has established himself as the uncontested King of Pop Parody.

Weird Al has sold over 12 million albums and has won 3 Grammy Awards. He is a cultural chameleon: The 1980s saw Weird Al portraying comical caricatures of Michael Jackson and Devo. The 1990s brought iconic parodies of Nirvana and Coolio. Recently, Weird Al earned his first Top-Ten Billboard album with his 2006 release Straight Outta Lynwood. 

The release of Mandatory Fun has been shrouded in mystery. Weird Al himself began to release mysterious images and teaser trailers only last month. Al commented on his own Facebook page, “A lot of people have been wondering when I’m going to release the lead single for “Mandatory Fun.” Well, here’s the thing… there IS no “lead single” for my new album. I’ll be releasing 12 “singles” all at once on July 15 – so you can decide for YOURSELF which songs are the hits!”

Additionally, Weird Al plans to release no less than 8 new music videos to promote the album. It seems safe to say that Mandatory Fun will be a massively entertaining and extremely listenable satire on today’s pop music.

Pre-order Mandatory Fun today on Murfie, and get it in your collection on July 15th! Each CD comes with unlimited streaming (Web, iOS, Android, Sonos) and downloads in mp3, aac, FLAC and ALAC.