You can tell you’ve reached some sort of success when your album ends up in a thrift store. At least that’s how I’ve always felt.
Last week my mom found a 12 year old copy of Yim, Yam, and Ram’s debut album in a Salvation Army in Nashville, TN. Yim, Yam, and Ram was my second [...]
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We Like Chess from Karim Amara on Vimeo.
A few weeks ago Irina, AllAboutGeorge, and myself recorded individual verses for the WuChess Rap Contest. Shortly after, George laid down a beat and we re-recorded our vocals. Then we headed down to the big chess scene on Market Street and shot the video. Between [...]
2008 has been a good year for dorkumentaries. Along with the dvd release of King of Kong, we’ve also seen the premiere of not one, but two docs about nerdcore hip hop (Nerdcore for Life & Nerdcore Rising). If you just can’t get enough retro gaming and quirky music, be sure to check out Blip [...]
This week’s HipTrax podcast (on Wired’s GeekDad blog) features my song Weapons Grade Porpoise. The whole episode is worth checking out, it’s just the right length. This week’s theme is instrumental songs by nerds, check it out here.
Weapons Grade Porpoise is one of the instrumental’s off of my new album Me Geek Pretty One Day. [...]
Geek Entertainment TV is certainly no stranger to the world of nerdcore hip-hop, but now they’ve finally posted their SouthBySouthWest interview with the godfather of nerdcore; MC Frontalot.
In related news, MC Slutsky and I will be performing at Laughing Squid’s “Lucky 13” party at CELLspace on May 31st. I’ll be doing a few songs off [...]
I posted 3 new auctions to eBay this morning:
Rare Casio DM-100. Circuit bent by Highly Liquid, who also added a midi in. I’ve used this funky beast on several songs, including MC Frontalot’s Pr0n S0ng and several tracks on Me Geek Pretty One Day.
Nudie Jeans, “Straight Sven”. These are brand new, with tags. Size 29″ [...]
For the next week, $2 of every album that I sell will be donated to the marvelous 826 National. 826, a nonprofit founded by Dave Eggers and his McSweeney’s cronies, is dedicated to teaching creative writing, screenwriting, publishing, ESL, and numerous other classes to students. I have been volunteering at the 826 Valencia (also known [...]
I’ve added another song to TheSixtyOne called “Skype Lyfe” which is, of course, one of the songs off of my new album Me Geek Pretty One Day. This is the only song I’ve done with MC Router, and it all started off as her idea. She originally asked me to make her a beat using [...]
When you think about it, beads are the “sprites” of the craft world, so it’s really no surprise that the two should come together. Dr. Octoroc uses Perler plastic beads to breathe new life into classic video game sprites. His newest piece, Gutsdozer, was made using 16,000 beads. By layering the beads, Dr. Octoroc was [...]
Drown Radio’s debut solo album, Me Geek Pretty One Day, is finally here! To put it simply, Me Geek Pretty One Day is 50+ minutes of endearingly nerdy hip hop, instrumentals, remixes, and ringtones all for just $8. You can read more about MGPOD here, or just go ahead and buy it here.
Me Geek Pretty [...]
