Front's back in New York, making the new album happen as best he knows how. Doggy Fresh is with him. Life is pretty good.

Front did a little bit of rapping for Fast Company recently. It is here. It is like an MBA program that you don't have to pay for, where various luminaries teach you stuff in 30-second increments. Front's seminar answers the question, "What meetings need to be face-to-face." How businessy!

You seriously have like 48 hours left to get your All Nerdcore Song Fight song turned in. The song has to have the title "Feature Creep." Beyond that, it's up to you. Hurry the hell up.

Everything's so autumnal lately. It is as though the clock ticks. Indeed! You have only a handful of days left to complete your Nerdcore Song Fight entry -- get on it! Submissions due by Oct 15th, voting runs through Oct 31st. The title is "Feature Creep," so that's what your song has to be called. You can sing, you can rap, you can make multi-octave throat noises with complicated Solkattu clap patterning. Just get your song done soon! Winner wins a wonderful trip to see Front play.

What do we all win if healthcare reform is defeated? Probably a free tumor! That's not a very good prize. Check out the wonderfully talented Negin Farsad's current project, HAARM, which is (psssst, secret:) actually making fun of anti-reformists. Even though it is pretending to be on their side. Confusing, I know. Speaking of Negin, her fantastic movie about Frontalot and his fans, Nerdcore Rising, is so available. There are community-hosted screenings all over the place. Or sign up for Netflix and stream it right now.

Oh! And! The Store is brimming with new things. Our fancy crimson Final Boss tee is finally mail-orderable. There's a new sticker pack, collecting the four classic vinyl stickers with two incredible new ones. And there's a special on posters, whereby purchase of the three-pack earns you two otherwise unattainable ultra-collectible secret bonus posters. We would not use so many made-up marketing words if we did not have to pay rent. The full-album mp3/aac/flac store is totally open, now, too. Have at.

Podcasts? Sometimes they have MC Frontalot on them.

Front is back in Berkeley for a bit, sifting beats for the new album. He had a chance to see Alec Berlin (electrical guitarist par excellence) performing in the Green Day musical American Idiot at the local repertory, an experience he can recommend without caveat.