“Roman is as Roman Does” is the first official video off of Themselves‘ Crowns Down. It’s an odd mix of animation, hip hop, and cupcakes.
Also on worth noting is this live but arty video of Oversleeping, another track off of their new album. Dose kills it, but it’s always to watch Jel’s MPC wizardry in [...]
Back in March, I was involved with a quick video shoot at my friend BZ’s studio in Oakland. The shoot was produced by Google but focuses on Studio 132, which is where I recorded and mixed most of Me Geek Pretty One Day. I had completely forgotten about the shoot until I happened to come [...]
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 [...]
Ratatat and Despot are currently touring the US. During each day of the tour, the duo will write, record, and perform a new song that will eventually be released on a free album when the tour is finished. During their recent San Francisco show, they asked Aesop Rock to appear on their daily track. Aes [...]
Semi-obscure music fans rejoice: iTunes is currently featuring John Cage’s “Four Minutes, Thirty Three Seconds” as their Discovery Download of the week! For those that don’t know, 4′33″ is a composition in which Cage instructs the musician not to play anything at all for four minutes and thirty three seconds. It’s the sort of piece [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 takes I managed [...]
I wanted to officially introduce everyone to my friend AllAboutGeorge. George and I have been playing shows together, including the Nerdcore For Life party at Double Dutch. I think Dan, the director of NC4L, sums it up pretty well in a recent email:
I’ll tell you what, you and that All About George guy make an [...]
