Archive for September, 2008

Interview with VG musician Xoc

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Looking back, I probably wouldn’t have bought Xoc’s newest album, The Beginning of the End, if it had cost one dollar more. Not that I wasn’t interested… GameMusic4All’s description of the Sacramento based musician who performs live versions of video game sound tracks sounded enticing, but without as much as a single preview track, my [...]

Geek N Spell on Epic Fu

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

This happened a while ago, but I forgot to brag: Drown Radio’s Geek N’ Spell (from the album Me Geek Pretty One Day) is the new intro music to Epic Fu! I’m so proud to hear one of my favorite tracks mixed with such cool animation. Epic Fu is one of my favorite shows and [...]

Sitting on Chrome

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Internet expert and Drown Radio co-hort AllAboutGeorge has written a brand new song about Google’s Chrome browser. I personally believe the track, About:Internets, is AAGeorge at his best. Feel free to leave your comments on the song below and/or bump the song on TheSixtyOne.

Top 10 game samples in hip hop

Monday, September 15th, 2008

The San Francisco Examiner recently published a list of the “Top 10 Hip-Hop Songs that Sampled a Video Game” which include our friends and fellow nerdites ytCracker and Random (aka Mega Ran).
The list was of particular interest to me since I’ve recently started working on the next Drown Pirate Radio podcast, which happens to be [...]

Next stop; the music & arts section

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Dan Lamoureux, from Nerdcore For Life, totally made my day with this email:
“Hey I saw that san Francisco examiner thing.  I think you’re officially the first nerdcore artist to make the “sports” section of any paper, anywhere.”
He was referring to this article promoting the California State Yo-Yo Contest (as opposed to this one). Thanks [...]