Odd Austin is a comedy/parody musician from Longmont, Colorado who writesfunny songs about funny things that are funny.

Austin’s interest in comedy music started at a young age. His unclehad tons of funny songs and skits on his computer that he played quite often.By listening to these songs Austin got his first look into the world of comedymusic. It wouldn’t be until years later in 4th grade that he woulddiscover “Weird Al” Yankovic from a friend who was singing ‘Yoda’ out loud inclass.

After Austin first heard Al, he immediately became a fan. Soonafter he went on a mad frenzy to collect all of Al’s studio albums. In 2002Austin began writing his own comedy lyrics in a composition book. Daily he’dwrite parodies and original songs based off of whatever random stupid idea hecame up with. These songs were (In every definition of the word) awful. Usuallyhaving no initial talent would deter some people from proceeding in a hobby,but nonetheless Austin marched forward (Figuratively of course, why would hemarch for any real reason?).

In 2004 Austin tried to record some of these songs in the mostpathetic way possible, a tape recorder! Obviously these songs sounded terrible,but soon he moved on to recording slightly less horrible sounding songs on anactual recording system. In late 2005 he had his first demo album, a small tentrack CD with ‘songs’ and stuff on it. The following year he released five moredemo albums that were each equally bad.

In 2007, Austin decided it was time to start work on an officialdebut album. The only problem was his recording equipment was the suck.Luckily, a beacon of hope glimmered in the pollution infested sun as Austindiscovered Ted Wilson, a local engineer who was offering to rent his studio to Coloradomusicians. Soon after Austin recorded his first album: “Wrong Side of the Bed”in what is now known as Megated Studios.

Since then Austin has been played on The Dr. Demento Show, The MadMusic Show, The Mad Music Dementia Top 20, Kahn Man’s Comedy Corner, andcountless others. He has written the official theme song for the nerdcore musicfestival: Nerdapalooza, and has sold a whole half a dozen CDs! His music hasbeen described as hilarious and clever by many and has been referred to as ‘TheNext Weird Al’. At the age of 17, Austin is one of the youngest comedians inthe dementia music community today, and is opening doors to a promising futurein the music industry.