News

3/19/26 Site updated for the first time in many years — new look, but all the content is still from 2008 and earlier.
7/12/08 Forbidden Zone has been colorized! It was shown at the Egyptian in Hollywood. You can order the DVD at forbiddenzonethemovie.com.
7/12/08 Richard Elfman has updated oingoboingo.com and the excellent information on Boingo on Wikipedia.
7/3/08 Danny Elfman interview about Wanted. (Thanks Gordon!)
6/27/08 The Wanted Soundtrack includes a new rock song from Danny Elfman called “Little Things”. (Thanks Jimmy!)
6/27/08 Perry's Drumming Podcast has an interview with Vatos.
10/27/06 Nightmare Before Christmas is out in 3D! There's also a remastered soundtrack with extras.
10/5/06 Danny Elfman released Serenada Schizophrana.
2/11/06 Danny Elfman signing “Corpse Bride” DVDs at Best Buy (1015 La Brea Ave., Los Angeles) on February 14th. (Thanks, Orna!)
10/26/05 Danny Elfman sent Salt Lake City's AutumnCon 2005 four certificates for Oingo Boingo Final Tour Jackets, with proceeds benefiting the American Diabetes Association.
10/23/05 Tony Hawk's American Wasteland features “Who Do You Want to Be Today?” (Thanks, Jason.)
10/16/05 Added Little Girls Tab from Justin Delise.
10/9/05 There's an interview with Danny Elfman from KCRW.
10/8/05 Did anyone else catch Patrick Stewart singing Little Girls on American Dad?
9/11/05 Johnny Vatos Tribute to Halloween at the Anaheim Grove on October 29th, featuring Johnny Vatos, John Avila, Steve Bartek and Sam Phipps.
8/23/05 The Corpse Bride website has a music room.
8/5/05 Sally Cruikshank is selling DVDs of her work including “Face Like a Frog”, which has “Don't Go in the Basement” performed by Oingo Boingo. (Thanks, NoodleMaps!)
8/1/05 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has music written and performed by Danny Elfman.
5/5/05 A Boingo tribute album from Indianola Records.
2/7/05 John Avila is playing with Mutaytor on February 10th.
12/17/04 The Official Site looks like it's coming back with new content. (Thanks Michael!)
10/9/04 The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland is decorated for Nightmare Before Christmas again.
10/9/04 Danny Elfman did the theme for the new ABC show Desperate Housewives.
9/22/04 Fable, a great new role playing game for the X-box, was scored by Danny Elfman.
8/29/04 Removed the guestbook — it had become a spamfest.
8/29/04 Forbidden Zone available on DVD on 8/31/04!
3/19/04 Danny Elfman is doing the music for the X-box game Fable.
1/27/04 Danny Elfman has been nominated for an Oscar for the Big Fish soundtrack!
12/5/03 Congratulations to Danny Elfman and Bridget Fonda on getting hitched!
12/5/03 Big Fish starts December 10th in some theaters, and January 9th everywhere.
10/12/03 Added Charlie and the Chocolate Factory link. (Thanks Neo!)
10/12/03 A bunch of tabs from Kris Miller. (Thanks!)
8/31/03 Blender names Oingo Boingo #16 on the 50 worst bands of all time with the worst album being Only a Lad. They're right next to Yanni! What's up with that? (Thanks to James.)
7/28/03 The Bachelor Party is coming to CD from Superfecta Recordings, containing "Bachelor Party" and "Something Isn't Right".
3/12/03 www.richardelfman.com reports that Danny Elfman is getting married to Bridget Fonda.
11/5/02 Disney is doing the Nightmare thing at the haunted house again this year.
10/31/02 Happy Halloween! Listen to some Boingo today for old times' sake.
10/31/02 Danny Elfman is a Mac user.
2/16/02 The Boingo Graveyard is temporarily down due to copyright issues.
2/16/02 John Avila is playing bass for Jennifer Nash. The next show is Feb 24th in Santa Monica. (Thanks Eric.)
2/16/02 Dead Man's Party tribute band playing on Thursday, March 28th at 4th and B in San Diego. Tickets at TicketMaster.
2/16/02 Added Dead Man's Party Tab from Kilroy Blues.
2/16/02 Added link to Rampant Boingophrenia, which has a Boingo radio.
2/16/02 Added a missing verse and fixed a typo in the Private Life lyrics. (Thanks Peter.)
2/16/02 Richard Gibbs cowrote the Queen of the Damned score. (Thanks Jouni.)
2/16/02 Added link to PsychoBomb's! Oingo Boingo WebSite!
2/16/02 Added link to Louis Wain site, the EP kitty artist.
2/16/02 According to Lauren, Richard Elfman is working on a new film "Date or Disaster" with his new wife Rachel.
1/1/02 Happy New Year!
1/1/02 Added link to Beyond Insanity.
1/1/02 Got the Planet of the Apes DVD for Christmas — it's got extras with Danny on writing the score and running commentaries with Danny and Burton. (Thanks Sara.)
1/1/02 Added link to Zokosky's page, the artist who did the Dark at the End of the Tunnel cover. (Thanks, Eric!) Dark at the End of the Tunnel is only $6 at Amazon — pick it up if you don't already have it!
1/1/02 Added link to The World of Tim Burton and Danny Elfman.
1/1/02 Added some new current projects above. (Thanks Jamie!)
1/1/02 Elfman wrote the main theme to Novocaine.
10/31/01 Happy Halloween! Have a good one and listen to lots of Boingo!
10/29/01 Initial feedback from the "Deadman's Party" House of Blues cover show is very positive. Vatos even made a surprise appearance!
10/27/01 More Vincent is going to be on Exposure on the Sci-Fi channel.
10/3/01 Mikey reports that Danny and Tim have canceled on the Disney appearance. Sorry for anyone who made plans.
9/26/01 Yikes! I accidentally did some damage on the server. Let me know if you see anything broken.
9/26/01 Pictures of the Nightmare/Haunted Mansion from boingo_freak:
- The sign hanging over the entrance to the mansion.
- Pumpkins on the roof.
- Jack perched on a pumpkin on the left of the entrance sign.
- The traditional Haunted Mansion sign revamped with pumpkins.
- The very top center of the roof.
- The railing around the mansion decorated for Christmas.
9/22/01 mexicansugarskull.com has some cool Dia De Los Muertos stuff including kits for making skulls out of sugar!
9/10/01 The Boingo Graveyard is finally back up!
9/10/01 Mikey reports that the tickets for the event at Disneyland with Burton and Elfman sold out in 4 hours.
9/4/01 There's going to be a Boingo tribute show at the House of Blues in Anaheim on October 26th.
8/23/01 The Farewell Video is coming to DVD, releasing September 18th. (Thanks Mike!)
8/23/01 Disneyland is going to decorate the Haunted Mansion with Nightmare stuff, October 3rd through January 3rd. Danny Elfman and Tim Burton will be there on October 5th.
7/21/01 There's also going to be something about Planet of the Apes next week on Exposure on the SciFi channel.
7/19/01 MTV is having a show on the making of Planet of the Apes, including an interview with Danny.
7/11/01 Fixed link to Planet of the Apes. (Thanks to everyone who pointed it out.)
6/17/01 Added current projects section with info from lots of people.
4/12/01 Modern Vampires directed by Richard Elfman is now available on DVD! (Thanks Sara!)
2/5/01 The Proof of Life score is available. It's getting bad reviews because people are expecting the soundtrack instead of the score.
2/5/01 Elfman is doing the score for Spider-Man! (Thanks to Jamie.)
12/10/00 Danny Elfman at Mann's Chinese Theatre on December 12th at 6:30 p.m. for the world premiere of 'Family Man'. (Thanks to Jeremy Ford.)
12/10/00 Danny Elfman appears as a violinist in The Gift. (Thanks to Amphagori.)
11/13/00 Family Man is a new movie with a soundtrack from Danny Elfman.
11/4/00 Sorry I missed something cool for Halloween — Boredmonkey put the Leno appearance on iPopCast.
10/29/00 Pointed to the Boingo Graveyard by Michael Sutor — he's got an awesome MP3 collection there.
10/24/00 Boredmonkey sent a high quality MP3 of Boingo performing Hey on Leno.
10/24/00 Temporarily put up the old chords/tabs page.
10/23/00 Consensus is that All the Pieces is Boingo — from the 1983 sessions for Good For Your Soul.
10/18/00 Added link to Nicky Matthews' Danny Elfman Temple.
10/18/00 Chris Barker found the Farewell Video at Tower Records online for $13.99.
10/18/00 Tom sent a couple of MP3s: Hello Satan from Forbidden Zone, and All the Pieces.
10/3/00 Tim Burton's Stainboy is now on shockwave.com, featuring music by Danny Elfman.
9/16/00 Got the Edward Scissorhands DVD. The commentary was pretty interesting — Danny speaks when there's no music.
9/9/00 Special Edition of Nightmare Before Christmas out in October.
9/9/00 Edward Scissorhands 10th anniversary edition now available, including a running commentary by Danny Elfman!
11/10/99 There's a new Boingo Anthology — a good collection of Boingo over time with interesting liner notes. It also has Ain't This the Life from the EP.