2011-03-29
The brand new video is online! See it at io9 today, download it from our videos section tomorrow. It is the title track from the Zero Day album, directed by Mohit Jaswal and co-starring ytcracker and int80 of Dual Core. Enjoy!
The brand new video is online! See it at io9 today, download it from our videos section tomorrow. It is the title track from the Zero Day album, directed by Mohit Jaswal and co-starring ytcracker and int80 of Dual Core. Enjoy!
PAX is just around the corner! Front and bandmates rock the Friday night program (3/11) with Metroid Metaland the Protomen. And you can get your fill of handshakes, signatures, and merchy goodness (including an exclusive PAX'11 poster) at Front’s booth in Bandland all weekend long.
Immediately afterward? South By Southwest! This year’s official nerdcore showcase is Tuesday night (3/15), in order to overlap with SXSWi, and is open to all stripes of SXSW badgeholder. If you are not thusly enstripened, stay tuned for two free Austin shows, Friday (3/18) at the Highball and Saturday (3/19) at El Cedro. Details adorn the gig calendar; seek them there.
New nerdcore albums! The ThoughtCriminals have just put out Cold Winter, and Random (AKA MegaRan) has dropped his Black Materia, a whole disc of FFVII beats. Both artists in the SXSW showcase, so come prepared.
Speaking of new nerdcore albums, MC Frontalot is hard at work on one. It won’t appear until late August, though, so you’d better purchase some extra copies of his earlier efforts to keep him in rent and cheesy poofs while he toils.
What can we tell you about this next album? Only that it is going to solve everything. Oh, and the brilliant Ms. Kristen Schaal will stop by for a skit. If you are not watching (hearing!) her on Bob’s Burgers, you are likely at some point to suffer from crippling regret.
Speaking of regret, Front already feels bad about having made this little dance edit of Charlie Sheen’s radio meltdown on Alex Jones last week. The Sturgenius on drums.
Oh and hey! Jhonen V’s fantastic Zero Day cover, in a fancy, slimy new color scheme, is a beautiful and shiny poster, on sale at Topatoco. And Len Peralta’s Geek-A-Week trading cards are on sale at ThinkGeek, and Front’s in the inaugural set. Front’s own feeble scrawlings remain free. That’s the news for now. Be safe out there and remember, only play lotto to win.
Front is doing some jury duty in Brooklyn, buuuddy. But he flees the long arm of the law this weekend to perform at WTH!Con in Greensboro, NC. That’s at 5:30PM on Saturday 2/5, and it is free. Don’t miss!
Other upcoming con-based Frontalot excitement includes: PAX East (3/11), SXSW Austin (3/15), Anime Boston (4/24), and Penguicon (Troy, MI) (4/28). Mark those calendars.
More nowishly… it’s Rock Band Network time again! The new tracks are Hassle: The Dorkening and Bizarro Genius Baby. You can play them in your home, on your XBOX. If enough of you do that, they’ll migrate to PS3 as well. So? Do.
Catch Front on Gothamist the other week? So many words.
Oh! And Blak Lotus has written and recorded a moment-by-moment literalization of the Spoiler Alert video. So now there are three versions: Max Isaacson’s vivid original video, Blak Lotus’s literal audio set against it, and Dakota Miller’s literal imagery set against the real song.
Finally? Let’s all welcome Vic-20 to New Yawk City! He has arrived, for the good.
Front is hiding from the winter air with all windows sealed tightly at his Brooklyn studio. Drum loops are everywhere! Are you having a wonderful year so far? Glad to hear it.
Our MC has ventured down to Greensboro NC for a video shoot with a gaggle of cheerful young filmmakers. Will there be robots? Severed limbs? Futuristic bunkers? Supporting actor nominations for ytc and dual core? Is this to be a video for the title track from Zero Day? Yes on all counts.
Did you catch Front on The Takeaway the other morning? If not, there’s so much internet these days, one needs barely worry about experiencing things when they occur. Speaking of which, these commemorative photosetsfrom the Frontalot / Math The Band / Alyson Greenfield show at the Knit are accessible whenever.
What does MC Frontalot record on? The answer is at The Setup.
What does Schaffer The Darklord record on? Cocaine with a side of phenobarbital.
New York! You must buy some tickets to Front’s December 10th show at the new Brooklyn Knitting Factory.Math The Band and Alyson Greenfield are opening. Front presents a full-band show, featuring the return of Gm7! Be not neglectful in your schedulations.
Front is triumphantly disembarked from a southern tour jaunt with Schaffer and chris! Now he readies his belly for fatted fowl, a carcass freshly felled in celebration of our genocide-themed holiday. Won’t you celebrate along? Jeffrey will be on top of it, as usual.
Speaking of holy days, do you have a present-exchanging ceremony on your horizon? Would some MC Frontalot Merchandise be an appropriate substitute for a thoughtful and personal gift? If so, get your orders placed before December 15th for best hope of timely receipt.
Se the news previous for our latest video offerings.
There’s a fresh new second video for Spoiler Alert – this one will appeal to the more literal-minded among you. It is a fan editing effort (by Dakota Miller) and you should spread it far and wide. Do not, however, neglect the original official Spoiler Alert video (by Max Isaacson), which is a triumph and has rocket bears.
While we’re reviewing the videoey goodness from the current Zero Day album, Shawna Mills’s fantastic First World Problem video remains totally viewable, tweetable, emailable, blog-embeddable, etcetra-ble.
Okay! Webcomics Weekend is up next. November 6th, Easthampton MA. See here for details.
Then? Front and Schaffer open for mc chris in Austin, Houston, Orlando, Atlanta, Columbia (SC), andCarborro (NC). Tickets are enlinkened, and everything’s on the calendar.
Calendars? Mark yours for December 10th in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Frontalot plays the Knitting Factory there with his full band, including the triumphant return of Gm7 on keys. Front hasn’t played NY since February, so this is a special event. Invite the compadres.
Speaking of Gm7 and things that are in New York: the song cycle “29” has a one-night engagement at Joe’s Pub. Front will be there. Ought not you be too? In other headlines… Bl4k Lotus gets crushed upon… Matt Steckler has a free track and a new album coming… our MC gets a new telephone… Former Fat Boys have avideo for Dinosaurus with a brief cameo by Front… a meatier Front cameo in this Paul & Storm minifilm… an interview on thug-geek.com… a LOLcats book from the late forties… and, it was Halloween the other night, sohere are five dudes who dressed up like Front.
Friday is W00tstock, you guys. W00tstock! Paul and Storm, Jonathan Coulton, Adam Savage, Marian Call,Drew Curtis, Grant Imahara… and Front will do his little set with Jason Finn on the drums. You ought to get a ticket.
Then it’s Hell’s Eve. Send in pics of your Frontalot costumes. Bestest one gets a free packet of merchy goodies delivered in the post.
New England Web Comics Weekend is upon us! Front’s there with 5pm and 7pm solo sets on the 6th. Attend ye, attend ye.
Speaking of solo sets, MC Frontalot does one over and over between the 12th and the 19th of November, tagging along with Schaffer for the mc chris tour. Are you twixt Austin and Carborro? Details are on the calendar.
Frontalot rests briefly in New York City. The current tour? A rousing success! Thanks to all who’ve attended (you made it so).
Still ahead: the band plays Albany on Oct 14th and a set at SuperArtFight in Baltimore on Oct 15th.
After that it’s w00tstock in Manhattan (10/29), New England Web Comics Weekend in Easthampton, MA (11/6), and a string of gigs with Schaffer and mc chris from 11/12 through 11/20. Your excuses for having never seen Front live onstage grow ever more thin.
Ken Flagg (AKA Vic-20) keeps the band’s exploits safely fastened to the hem of history itself. Read his tour blogand rejoice.
A new single! It is Spoiler Alert, a song that seeks to ruin everything you planned to enjoy this Autumn, and which includes the impossibly rich vocal stylings of one miss Molly Hager.
MP3 or AAC file is ripe for the download, and the video, a seething masterwork of monster invasion and flying commando bear defense, is housed exclusively at Kotaku for the rest of the day. Seek fancy downloadable versions and crappy youtube encodings on our own video page tomorrow. [Update: youtube is go]. And hail loudly our Max Isaacson, conceptualist, video director, and auteur.
Also mentioned at Kotaku: some September/October tour dates! These are already real AND UPDATED:
9/18 Mesa AZ
9/23 Austin TX
9/25 Northampton MA
9/27 Hamden CT
9/29 Providence RI
9/30 Boston MA
10/6 Pittsburgh PA
10/7 Cleveland OH
10/8 Ann Arbor MI
10/14 Albany NY
10/15 Baltimore MD
…with more dates filling in the late Sept and early Oct gaps. Please stay tuned for additions and details.
Speaking of touring, did you hear that Front will join Schaffer the Darklord for a week of mc chris shows in November? You’ll want to know more. You will know more. Patience, young jedi.
As if these newsflashes, short films, and audio entertainments were not enthralling enough, let us pause to remember the incredible PAXiness so recently concluded. There are photos and photos and photos, filmedevidence of our good MC’s inability to keep the meme infestation at bay, and a Ken Flagg (AKA Vic-20) tour diary or two to wrap things up. As ever, Front extends his deepest thanks to the Penny Arcade staff, the Enforcers, and the thousands of fans who make it all rock so hard.