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When I posted on this site over a year ago, and said that I would start posting about things other then music I followed that post up with three posts about music. Since I am nothing if not predictable, let’s make a post about music.
The first sign that you are starting to get [...]

My mind tends to wonder when I’m driving back and forth to work. Sometimes I think about things I need to do. Sometimes I just have random thoughts about random things. And sometimes I end up thinking about things I’ve done. Tonight’s drive home involved the latter, though it left me [...]

So I’ve been kind of drowning in tracks lately. Not a horrible thing in and of itself, but it’s hard to give an album a thorough listen when you know there’s a handful of other albums waiting on your hard drive to be loaded into iTunes. In this situation it is almost a [...]

So, last month I dropped a couple of hints about a top secret project that I’ve been working on. Well, today’s the day of the grand unveiling.
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Geeks of all fandoms.
I give you…
Stop Standing Still!!!
For those that may be curious, Stop Standing Still is a site that I’ve set [...]

Several weeks ago Z pointed Church and I to an article over at Something Awful, titled The 8 Most Awful Minorities. Specifically, this page which talks about nerdcore.
To quote,
The genre amounts to a bunch of people aping that MC Hawking joke site from like 1998, but that hasn’t stopped Internet losers from falling head [...]

So I was having a decent day today. Nothing amazing. I had a project at work that I was expecting to take hours, that only took about five minutes. Then there’s the saga that is Church’s new found internet celebrity status (more on that later). It was a decent day.
Then Karl [...]

Ultraklystron (how is it I can spell that and not ‘unfortunately’?) has finally put up a link for fans to order his new album, Romance Language. Sample tracks of the new album are not yet available, but he promises that they’ll be up soon. In the meantime, fans who order the album before [...]

Artist: Jawbreaker
Song: Tour Song
Album: Bivouac
(lyrics)
Last week Shael Riley started a thread over on Rhymetorrents asking for financial advice from mc chris. The thread eventually dissolved into the typical stupid infighting bullshit that plagues Rhymetorrents, so I didn’t bother reading all of it, but the idea did stick in my head. [...]

Karl posts a link to another video blog entry about the fun that went down at CES.
Honestly, if I could link to only one five minute entry to describe Nerdcore, I think this would be it. A bunch of people are interviewed (Fanatical, BBear, MC Plus+, and I think a few others) and the [...]

I know I promised to introduce you all to the world of geeky indiepop, and I will. Unfortunately I’ve gotten sidetracked.
For one, Mr. Lev Grossman has posted another post about Nerdcore (more of a follow up to his previous post). And I felt the need to respond to what he was saying.
I’ve also [...]