News From The Front

Hey, Boston! PAX is upon us again. Front & the band are on the main stage Friday night. See them! Hear them! And come meet Front in Bandland all weekend long.

Front is part of the Rock, Paper, Cynic Borken Telephone project, which becomes available Apr 19th. Seventeen or so(!) nerd musicians made one minute songs, each trying to recreate the previous one in the chain after only a single listen. The result was pretty cool.

You should get the new Busdriver and Open Mike Eagle albums. They’re mighty fine things.

Nurse your Valentine’s Day emotional hangover with Front’s brand new video for “Mornings Come And Go,”from Question Bedtime. Patrick Rothfuss debuts it for us at dawn.

Our MC returns to Austin in March for the official SxSW Nerdcore showcase. We’ll post that date when the showcase schedules are announced!

Well! There’s another PAX coming right up. Front and bandmates make with the raps for you Saturday night (1/30) in San Antonio. Come see your lad in Bandland all weekend long. If it’s where it was last year, you don’t even need a badge to get into that chunk of the convention center! Get something signed.
Get a hug. Get a plan together so you can visit Front and get those things from him. Okay.

Hey! Frontal ally Allie Goertz has just released her album of Rick & Morty tribute tunes. Wait, what? That’s like Front’s favorite cartoon! Sure hope he’s got a feature verse on there. Oh. Yep, he sure does. Download the record right away.

Front’s back home in NY for a little while, working on his various secrets and lies.

Meanwhile! Take a gander at his inbound and outbound intercontinental airplane movie queues, and stop bythe shop to get one of Front’s albums or tees since you are required to buy things for friends and relatives at this time of year.

Oh! And check him out ‘live’ from Australia on Kris and Paul’s 28 Plays Later podcast.

Front’s on an aeroplane, traveling alllll the way to Australia to entertain you there. See him Saturday night (10/31) at PAX and/or Monday night (11/2) at Melbourne’s Workers Club. That Fitzroy show is going to be proper fun, including a live podcast taping w/ Kris Straub and the chiptunes wizardry of cTrix. Tickets available! Then our MC will wander around Thailand for two weeks trying not to get Typhoid. If you know any fun things to do in Thailand besides avoiding diseases, tweet those things at him. His itinerary is wide open.

Front did a bit of engineering on the debut Font Drama album, and you can even see him lurking in their first video. And speaking of videos, here’s a new lyric vid for an old track: Front’s Scare Goat on ewwwtooob.

This weekend in New York City! Get rested. Because right after, you’re hanging out with Frontalot. Monday 10/12, see Front portray Stef in Jean Grae & Quelle Chris’s GOONIES II at Union Hall. Then, on Tuesday night, attend The Talent Show at Joe’s Pub, where Front will do a number with Vic-20 and Gm7. Excitement! Two excitements!

Australians! Particularly Melbournians! See Front at PAX Australia at the end of October, and stick around for his show at Workers Club on Mon 11/2. Details for that one will be on the gig calendar mighty soon.

Nerdcore albums! Front is proud to appear on Wordburglar’s brand new one, Rapplicable Skills. Front highly recommends Miss Eaves’s Black Valley (and don’t miss her debut video), as well as Random’s RNDM which includes some of the nicest things anyone’s ever said about Front on wax.

Australia! Frontalot is headed your way. He’ll see you soon.

MC Frontalot heads to Portland on 7/23 for a free show with the whole band. The Doubleclicks open. Be atDante’s at 8:00PM to make sure that gladness infests your evening! This enjoyable visit occurs in support ofOSCON, thanks entirely to the generous folks at OpenNMS.org. We heard a rumor that a brand new MCF song about free software is scheduled to debut during the performance.

Front thanks everyone who came to see the recent Ann Arbor and Indianapolis shows. AA’s Top Of The Park and Indy’s Circle City Con deserve everyone’s enduring support.

Did you catch Front on Mike Eagle’s ‘Secret Skin’ podcast? That’s here. How about dancin’ around the backgrounds in Mike’s new video for 'Ziggy Starfish?’ Check it out.

What are the Frontal allies up to? Let’s see… Our MC’s bassist Bl4k Lotus invented a battle card game about bacteria! Get in on the ground floor with the game’s kickstarter. Negin Farsad (director of Nerdcore Rising: The Movie) has finished her first romantic comedy, ’3rd Street Blackout.’ Front was meant to have a cameo, but found himself detained out of town. The film is undoubtedly improved by featuring Hodgman in the role instead. Lev Grossman’s 'The Magicians’ is headed to televisions… perhaps your televisions. Wheatus and Mike Doughty tour together in the fall, all around the UK. John Roderick is running for Seattle City Council.

Oh, and Front recently insulted a bunch of movies that you probably kind of enjoy. He’s slightly sorry.

South by Southwest! The whole band’s in Austin for sunshine, frivolity, etc. Also for performances!

MONDAY: Front and his gentleman companions are the ‘surprise’ headliner at Nerd Carnival. It’s free and thrilling. And UX front-end folks with skillz in Ember.JS and Angular.JS will probably leave the venue with an insanely fancy job offer from the party’s hosts.

TUESDAY: The official SXSW showcase is at Flamingo Cantina on 6th. Any festival badge gets you in (including film and interactive) and in past years there have also been tix avail at the door. Come find out.

THURSDAY: Day show! It’s the Real Genius Nerdcore Variety Show, at The Badlands on Chicon at E 12th. Starts around 3PM (despite what the event page may say). A little after 7, it turns into a burlesque extravaganza. Huzzah!

REST OF THE WEEK: Buy front a drink and tell him everything is going to be okay! Lately he is not so sure.

After that? The band wanders back east for Anime Boston, where they headline on April 4th. Front promises to nod politely when you explain who you’re dressed as.

One other thing to be excited about: animator Chad Essley is right on the verge of launching a big ol’ charity auction in benefit of the EFF. You can get hand-drawn frames from his video for Front’s song Shuddersfrom Question Bedtime, glasses, shirts, and lots more. Stay tuned.

The new video is out! Head to yootoobs or Flavorwire to check out START OVER, directed by Alicia J Rose, and download the single for your own personal jam upcranking. The album is, as ever, available to own.

The last three videos came out pretty great, too. Have a viewing party, why dontcha?

Front’s headed back to the stage: SCaLE in Los Angeles 2/21, PAX in Boston 3/7, The Middle East in Cambridge 3/9 (with Freezepop!), and several shows at SXSW in Austin from 3/15-3/23. The gig calendar serves up details, pipin’ hot.

Even newer Frontalot music to hear? Sure! Check out our MC’s guest spots on Mike Doughty’s Stellar Motel, Mikal kHill’s The Snuggle Is Real, and Doug Funnie’s Homecoming.