News From The Front

Flash! [12.13] New song “Fresh Dog” on music page & at Song Fight all week.

Pry your cohorts away from their Crashbox360’s, fire up the transport, and take a roadtrip to sunny Manhattan Island where Front and co make a triumphant return visit to their recent digs. We’re talking about a LIVE SHOW folks!

Details are to the left of this very news box. Above the quote of the week. Yes there, you see them. Good.

If you’re already in New York, dig on some cable access over the next week. Frontalot’s summer appearance at The Bitter End is immortalized therein! Here’s the sched:
Sat 12/10 @ 10:30pm on Ch 56
Tue 12/13 @ 7pm on Ch 56
Wed 12/14 @ 9:30pm on Ch 57

Nerdcore Rising is in the store and ready to stuff stockings! All orders enter the mail within 24 hours! Depending how far you are from California, you can probably get your stocking stuffed if you order before Dec 20th! That sounds kind of nasty, but it is true.

You can also buy the new premium edition of the album at Amazon. It is the same except way more expensive. Good for if you have a gift certificate. Coming soon to ThinkGeek as well. You can get the album on iTunes now, too! Which is kind of exciting until you realize that they forgot to list it as a single album. Maybe they’ll fix that soon. Till then, if you only want a few tracks, that’s your spot.

Hey, who wants to do a bunch of PHP/MySQL programming for the upcoming brand new Frontalot site? Wait, you’re saying YOU want to? That is awesome! Write him mail about it. Include a brief description of your experience with such things and at least one reason why you’d do it for free.

Did you see Front in XXL magazine back in October? If not, rejoice in the fact that scanners exist. Same goes for today’s Tar Heel.

Dancing. Dancing! DANCING!! That is what Front was doing (dancing) (with glee) when he finally solved The Dark Complex. It actually added IQ points to his brain in the process. Try it out. You are definitely going to need paper and pencil. Of course, Front used a pen.

Frontalot’s album enters its second printing as of today. Buy it from Front directly using the power of paypal. If you hate paypal too much (or have a gift certificate or something) there is also the Amazon option.

If instead it is MC Frontalot who you hate too much, maybe you should shop for music that better suits cool kids like you.

Speaking of those accursed cool kids, they are nowhere to be found in the dorkish comedy of the Ministry of Unknown Science. Their weekly video podcast thing is newly launched and classically awesome.

Hey now! Tell your friends about Front’s next show. It is listed on the left there above the quote of the week.

And if you’re talking to them anyway, tell them to bid recklessly on Front’s Tascam US-428 (it is too late). He used it to record Nerdcore Rising, a fact which imbues it with a tiny shred of unripened nostalgia.

There are fresh faces in the cute chicks gallery. There are new pages in the fan arts gallery. There is a new feeling in the air! Perhaps we should check the air conditioning for malfunction.

Hear Frontalot on NPR’s “Day to Day” in their archive (clicky). Is he the only rapper interviewed who does not think it is dumb to use the term “nerdcore?” Heck no, Hawking’s on the mic too.

Nerdcore Rising is almost sold out. The second printing is on order. Be one of the last few to get the Historic Very First Edition while supplies last!

LIVE SHOW IN MANHATTAN: At Crash Mansion on Dec. 17th. Late at night. 11PM or so. Details to follow.

Calling all flash animators, cell animators, stop-motion photographers, and other auteurs of the moving image! Front wants a video for Charity Case or any other album track. Will you make him one? Write in for to arrange the arrangements.

Frontal cohort Jesse Dangerously has a new record out. Help to relieve him of it by scrolling down his pageand clicking indiscriminately on any “buy now” buttons you find. Speaking of cohorts bearing vendables, Tony Moore’s Fear Agent #1 is at your comic book shop. Let its siren call coax you forth.

Creepy death is everywhere! Did we miss halloween? Maybe we’re just anticipating Turkey Day.

PAX was big-sized fun. Keep your eyes peeled for the DVD over at Penny Arcade.

Did you catch Front in the October XXL? Due to the magazine industry’s hostility towards what month it is, that issue will be off news stands right around when October starts. Check for it at your lazier local bookseller. Suge Knight is on the cover. Front is on page 59.

If you have one of those nifty old analog radios, listen to Day to Day on your local NPR station. A segment on Nerdcore featuring the MC who fronts should air soon.

Front will not be watching cheeseball Joss Wheedon television shows turned into fan-service wank-fest movies. But take him out to see Corpse Bride, won’t you? Or Murderball. Now that the album’s shipping, he’s ready to do things where he just sits and stares for two hours. And if you want to see a space western that actually deserves to survive the impending cultural revolution, mail-order Cory Mcabee’s The American Astronaut. It doubles (triples) as a musical. And is awesome.

Speaking of the album, Nerdcore Rising is selling pretty well. Keep purchasing it! Front gets ever closer to feeling like a professional music person. At which point he would feel compelled to record another album.

Lead single remains Charity Case. Also available in full: the album version of the PA Theme. Valued Suckers are enjoying Goth Girls as a bonus. All 16 tracks get teased on the album page.

The album is here! It is for sale in the frontalot store alongside the brand new lady shirts, oversized boy shirts, and other wonderful ownables. There is a whole page about the album which you can visit for irritatingly brief teaser clips from every track.

Do not miss the first single from Nerdcore Rising: “Charity Case.” Baddd Spellah did a bang-up job on the beat and you will be touched in your innermost heart areas by the song’s tender plea for snacks.

Front took the stage at PAX last night with Connie Lin, MC Chris, and the Minibosses. Tickets were not to be had for love nor money. Front wishes to thank all those who came by his booth and/or hollered from the crowd. Special ups are distributed to the cadre of VSP folk who turned his merch table into a social hub.

Speaking of Penny Arcade, the new take of the vocal considerably improves their theme song. Have a listen.

Front heads today directly from Seattle to the playa for a week of solitude, serenity, and sober contemplation. If you want to interview him or buy him gift certificates for pie, be advised that he won’t be looking at many emails until the second week of September. (Fear not, the store will function without his attention.)

More radio! NPR’s Day to Day will be featuring Front in piece on Nerdcore sometime soon. When exactly? Life is a mystery.

Nerdcore Rising, the first and therefore awesomest-to-date Official MC Frontalot Album was mastered last night and sounds kind of dope. It will be back from the pressing plant and ready to release at PAX on August 27th. Front will probably pass around the hit single “Charity Case” a little earlier than that. Mail listees are the best apprised.

Nerdcore awareness blossoms at an alarming pace:

Front was interviewed by Mike Pesca on the Brian Lehrer show this morning on WNYC. You can listen to it in MP3 from their archive.

Front is expected to feature prominently in a piece on Nerdcore Hip-Hop appearing in the October issue of XXL. Their angle may be how wack he is. If so, Front can’t really argue. Due to a wormhole in space, the October issue hits stands in early September, so take that opportunity to thumb through it carefully or bring it home to enjoy later.

And if you are in the world’s giantest city, look out for Front in an imminent issue of Folha de S. Paulo. Aha! PDF here.

Upcoming appearances! You know about the Penny Arcade Expo, don’t you? You should. It’s on. Front plays Saturday night, prior to MC Chris. And! Front will do some kind of a rapping set at center camp at Burning Manthis year. At some point in the week. Probably. Schedules get nebulous up there.

And back to the album… big-sized thanks go out to the people who made it happen: keyboardist Gm7 (née Charisma+1), bassist Black Lotus, drummer The Categorical Imperative, beatsmith Baddd Spellah, bent circuit expert Doc Popular, stoned-ass bald dude DJ Earflaps, cellist JBB, master of mastering Alex Thériot, guest rappers MC Hawking and Jesse Dangerously, album artists Tony Moore and Campbell Whyte, and our gracious host at the dinner party of life, the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Okay! Last night’s Crash Mansion show went quite well, despite Front’s occasional inability to say lots of words quickly in the proper order. To those who point out (rightly) that this is all we ask of him, Front promises this: the Pr0n S0ng will be totally and completely memorized by the dawn of PAX.

Jeff Rowland (Front’s only Australian Aboriginal friend) made it down from the wilds of MA to enjoy the show (or else to hang out with his fellow comicists). He lent Front’s poorly org’d shirt concession the air of Dumbrella professionalism.

The new album! Front toils many hours each day in front of the mix-o-tron, turning dreams into uncompressed stereo data. It will be ready for Seattle. And it will be on sale in the store. And it will be rad.

You think you are a huge genius? Get past level six then.

It’s the end of the world as we know it! Front plays one last gig in NYC before moving to Boston. Do not miss it.

MC Frontalot
Saturday, July 30th
9 PM
Crash Mansion
199 Bowery (map)
New York City
21 and over
Ten Dollars

There’s a flyer here: (linky) which you should send to your friends. Also mention that Nerdcore Hip-hop is not going to reign supreme unless Frontalot can prove to club promoters that a crowd gathers to see him on a Saturday Night.

The Gallery of Cute Chicks Wearing My Shirt has a few new pics. And all of them are girls, if you can believe it.

Can’t get to NY? How about Seattle? No? What, are you trapped under a heavy object? Well, here’s a track from last month’s gig at The Bitter End. The rest of the show’s in the VSP section.

eToychest, you like the fronting.

Important News At The Bottom! MC Frontalot’s first official actual real compact disc is coming out August 27th. It will be inexpensive, shiny, and perfect for home use or listening on the go. The title is “Nerdcore Rising,” it will have 16 tracks (new material and newly recorded favorites with plenty of beatwork from Baddd Spellah), and you had better start wondering about it right now.

Front and bandmates made short work of the house rocking chores last night at New York’s historic Bitter End. Debuted were the newly re-awesomeized Special Delivery / My Sister medley and the disco version of Hassle: The Dorkening. You can listen to the whole gig if you are a member of Frontalot’s Valued Sucker Program (join!). If you boast no such membership, consider yourself impoverished. Culturally. Feeling charitable, Front offers one track to the unvalued.

If you missed the show, do not despair! It is not too late to uproot your life, move to the East Coast, and check out MC Frontalot’s real actual final show that he’s ever going to do (before moving to Boston and occasionally coming to New York to play anyway)!

This is the big'n, kids. A red hot summer Saturday night in a venue where it’s going to feel empty if we don’t have many hells of fools in attendance. So help Front get the word out.

Did you notice that Front is Jeff Rowland’s only black friend? The layers of hilarity are like those of a funny, funny onion.

Readers of Wired News are glad to know that Frontalot still describes his rapping as mediocre. Rest assured that he will continue to do this even if he some day becomes good at rapping.

Front has a back log of gallery arts and cute chicks to post. Please keep sending such things in, even though they tend to ripen in his inbox for such inexcusable spans.

Happy day to you, o aficionado of war remembrance and/or barbecue! Front shed his boyhood lo these several years ago, and this day marks the passage.

Speaking of shedding things, MC Frontalot seems to have sloughed off his live-stage-rocking inhibitions. There is another public display of his rapping prowess scheduled for late June:

MC Frontalot w/ full band
Thursday, June 23rd
10 PM
The Bitter End
147 Bleecker Street
(between Thompson and LaGuardia)
New York City
21 and over
seven dollars

This may or may not be your final opportunity to see Front onstage in New York. While we only point this out in order to alarm you into attendance, it is quite possibly true. He moves to Boston right after PAX and will probably be pilloried there or else burned as a witch.

Another chance! The lovely young songstress Jess Klein has asked Front to do an unnecessary rap breakdown in her lone reggae number Soda Water. This occurs June 15th at The Living Room. Come on by!

But let us address the most pressing issue of the day. Did Front enjoy Episode III? Yes! Did he deem it a worthy successor to any SW product created before he turned twelve (including the ewok special)?NOOOOoOOOoooooooOOooooo.