Kid Koala’s newest project is a turntable based rock band named Slew. Kid, with Dynomite D and ex-members of Wolf Mother, will take Slew on tour in just a few weeks. They’ll be hitting San Franicisco’s Independent Theater on 9/25/09. He says this tour will be the only time Slew will perform live, so catch them if you can.

Above is Slew’s first music video, but you can also catch some tracks on XLR8R.

update: After bugging Eric for weeks trying to find out if this was shot on a PXL2000, I finally got an answer

Yeah we shot it on a PXL 2000. and maxell xlii-s cassettes!

LOLcats, the first official music video from my newest album Me Geek Pretty One Day has been finally released. We shot the video on July 12th, 2008 on Quincy Street and the video magically finished production on July 12th, 2009. It was also a year ago that Dan caught this live performance of LOLcats at the Double Dutch in San Francisco. Dan has plenty more pics and information about the video’s production on his blog.

If you like my LOLcats song you can purchase Me Geek Pretty One Day from my webstore, iTunes, or Amazon.

I love this old music video “Tired” by Controller 7. Controller 7 played a show in SF tonight, and I’m bummed I couldn’t catch it since I’ve been dieing to see him for years. I’m always hoping that he’ll come out of retirement and make some new beats, or even post some new entries on his hip hop newsblog, but www.controller7.com hasn’t been updated since double ought seven. You can hear his beats on Myspace, but if you make music too, you can’t add him as a friend. C7 has a classic sound and was a personal influence when I was still living in the Twin Cities (that Deep Puddle Dynamics remix in ‘99 still gets play!), so here’s hoping 2009 is the year he drops a new album…. but if it isn’t, at least we still have this awesome rollerskate video.

Tomorrow night is a huge nerdcore show at The Uptown in Oakland featuring MC Frontalot, MC Lars, ytcracker and Drown Radio. Drown Radio (aka AllAboutGeorge and Doctor Popular) will be opening the show so get there early! Doors at 9pm. Rumor has it that Lars and yt might join me onstage for the first (and possibly only) live performance of 911 AM!!

Front and co will also be rocking a show at the Knitting Factory in LA later this week too. Frontalot has hinted that Will Wheaton might also join his set to do the hilarious ShellfishCore skit. More info on the tour and dates here.

I was out of the country during the West Coast Wigout in LA, but hopefully we’ll start seeing videos from that online soon.

I’m happy to say that MC Lars and YTCracker’s new studio album, The Digital Gangster, is available now! Digital Gangster features 14 tracks made by two nerds with a real love of hip hop and is “for sale” in Radiohead-esqu donation system. It features production and guest appearances by Beefy, MC Frontalot, and other nerdcore luminaries.

I’ve even got some production credits on the album, having made the beats for both Birth of a Phish and MC Lars’s Facebook Friend Count. Digital Gangster also has one track that I produced and rapped on called 911 AM (Guiliani). It’s is a song that I had been saving for the next Drown Radio album, but after hanging with the Lars and YT in the studio, I thought the song was a good fit for the three of us. It was one of those songs that literally came together in less than 4 hours (writing, rapping, and everything). Those guys are geniuses.

[note: the views represented below are Doc's and don't necessarily reflect what Lars and YT feel about the track] Check out the great fan video (embedded above) by youtuber ShannonLikesConan

In my mind, 911 AM isn’t about the September 11th hijackings, that’s already been covered (pretty well in fact). This song deals with the fear mongering and civil liberty abuses in the name of protecting us from terrorists. Some will tell you everything changes in a “post 9/11 society”, but that’s bullshit. It’s scary to think that someone can be treated as a terrorist because they have a band sticker on their bike or for posting Aqua Teen Hunger Force LEDs. Taking a tube of toothpaste from travelers doesn’t make the world a safer place. Arresting someone for taking pictures of a bridge doesn’t make the world a safer place. When police make a mistake, as the Boston Police did with maker Star Simpson, we can’t let them trump up their charges

Of course most of us already knew it, but now it’s official: MC Lars and ytCracker are Internet Superstars! Lars and YT were in town last week recording their new e.p., tentatively titled “The Digital Gangster E.P.” (according to the interview embedded above), and I got a chance to hang out with both of them. On monday, I spent the day with the guys at the Rondo Bros studio and was totally amazed at how quickly they could write and memorize their verses. They already had finished 3/4 of their album, but I brought them 3 new beats and some song ideas, so we spent Monday working on Drown Radio beats (word!). I did the hook on a Lars song and ytCracker ripped a solo verse on one of my glitchiest beats yet, but what I’m really excited about is our collab song “Giuliani”. Giuliani is about the over-usage of 9/11 to justify arresting people for taking pictures of buildings, or wearing weird shirts, etc.
The Lars/YT e.p. is slated for release on November 1st, no price as of yet, but you NEED this album. I haven’t heard all of it, but I can say for a fact that what I have heard is some of the best material either artist has put out yet!

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 I hope we will be able to work together some more in the future. It’s also cool to see my low-tech circuit bent sounds mixed with high-tech animation. Here is the YouTube link. I’ve also created an Epic Fu ringtone for the iPhone, just download this file and it should automatically upload into your iTunes.

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.

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 video game themed. This list reminded me of the old hip hop compilations “Game Over” and “Game Over II”. These compilations contain loops built from video games, with some great rappers over them. I’ve wanted these discs since they first came out, but they are hard to find. If anyone has a copy they can share or let me know how to find one, I’d really appreciate it.