Longmont musician chosen to be jurist alongside Weird Al and Dr Demento

Local Longmont alternative rock musician Austin Aeschliman has been chosen to be a Musician Jurist on the Award Committee for the Inaugural 2011 Logan Awards, alongside notable fellow musician juror Weird Al Yankovic and permanent juror Dr. Demento.

We first met Austin in 2008 when he was just a 15 year old Longmont teen, putting out the most hilarious musical parodies and fun originals under the stage name of "Odd Austin" and was rapidly gaining notoriety in the comedy music world (listen to an extensive interview done with him in 2008 at the below Longmont Advocate podcast link). According to Austin, he's no longer doing parody music and is now "in a band called Smashy Claw that does mostly quarky stuff, occasional comedy, occasional serious stuff, usually somewhere in between."

Among those who noticed Austin's music are two people famous in the musical comedy world whom he will now join on the Logan Awards jury committee. Austin's music has been one of the most requested songs played on the Dr. Demento Show. In 2011, Austin also co-produced the pop­u­lar “Weird Al” Yankovic trib­ute album Twenty-Six and a Half.

The Logan White­hurst Memo­r­ial Award for Excel­lence in Com­edy Music (Logan Awards) is a set of awards pre­sented by The Funny Music Project. The awards are to be pre­sented annu­ally, in three categories: Out­stand­ing Orig­i­nal Com­edy Song, Out­stand­ing Par­ody Song, Out­stand­ing Com­edy Music Video. The Logan Awards were named after musician, Logan Whitehurst, who passed away in 2006 from brain cancer and who's musical comedy work had caught the eye (and ears) of Dr. Demento and fans of his show.

(article edited 8/28/11)

Read: Austin's jurist profile for the Logan Awards

Related articles about Austin:

All-American Rejects guitarist tweets his fans about local Longmont musician

Longmont 101: Best place to find talented musicians who write funny songs

Austin's 2008 interview for the Longmont Advocate Podcast (includes the Longmont Examiner's two favorite songs "Old People" and "Kenmore Fridge")

Archived copy of the Times Call 2009 article about Odd Austin: Loony Tunes - Inside the mind of musical comedian Odd Austin

Odd Austin's MySpace artist page

Austin's artist listing in the Mad Music Archive

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