News From The Front

That was some good clean fun! Front rocked the heck out of the Slipper Room in New York last night, to the delight of a full house. Thanks for coming out, folks! The solid showing ensures a hot Sattidy night sometime soon, in an even fancier lower-east-side venue. Get ye onto the mailing list to make sure you don’t miss it.

Gizmodo stuck around to interview Front after the proceedings. Read all about it!

An appropriately lo-fi bootleg of the entire concert is forthcoming, along with little video snippets and etc. These will be made available to members of the Frontalot.com Valued Sucker Program. Oughtn’t you join now in anticipation?

Let’s change topics. Things to click on the internet include: Robin’s big date (quciktime, 20MB), the perfect game of Super Mario Bros III, start complaining about your sore throat, you’re soaking in it!, a song about robots, a better song about robots, samples envisioned, and back to Batman.

See MC Frontalot live in concert! Do not miss this fabulous full set wherein Front’s 3-piece band backs him across a robust assortment of his popular ditties:

Wednesday, May 11
10 PM
The Slipper Room
167 Orchard @ Stanton, NYC
five bucks
(directions)
(flyer to mail to your chums)

Tell your friends! Warn your enemies! Front must fill the house in order to be taken seriously on the New York night club circuit. And you all know how Front feels about being taken seriously. Help him spread the word anyhow.

Latest recording is still “Oh, The Hilarity,” a rollickingly tearful outing with dire beat by Baddd Spellah. You can listen to thirty seconds here, but the whole track is reserved as your incentive to donate ten bucks towards ongoing tsunami relief efforts.

Also! New cute chicks in the gallery, new fan arts including one by Jeff Rowland (RIP) and new pages inCampbell Whyte’s CD Booklet Project.

Front issued mouth noises into an amplified sound scheme Saturday night at the Collymore in Brooklyn. It was a solid warm-up gig. Next New York show to be announced fairly soon.

Following were the awesomely nerdcore Mathematicians, whose impeccable taste and infectious stage hijinks serve as an inspiration to us all. Check them out.

Front was likewise honored to perform in the company of Brandon Patton, an independently minded rocker late of the Twin Cities. See his web page for entire albums of free songs.

Speaking of web sites, Indie Pop Cares A Lot is live and ready to pass the CDs out. Getting one of your own is the way to hear the brand new MC Frontalot song (“Oh, The Hilarity”) in its entirety. And it is the only way. The CD nets you exclusive tracks from Brother Machine, MC Hawking, FBF, Add, Raised by Wolves, and other hotshots of the net set. The CD is free in exchange for a receipt showing that you’ve recently coughed up ten bucks for tsunami relief. Not a bad deal all around. Can someone please post this on Fark and Slashdot?

To whet the old appetite, check out annoyingly short samples of the whole album, including 30 seconds of Front’s contribution.

SHORT NOTICE SHOW! MC Frontalot performs a modest set of six or seven songs with live drum and bass accompaniment at C'Fizz, aka The Collymore, this weekend:

Saturday, April 2nd, 10:00 PM
18 Putnam btw. Downing & Grand
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York
five bucks

Please attend.

Please also find a couple hundred dollars in an old shoe and use it to get a ticket to Seattle for PAX'05, where Front rocks the stage with full band on August 27th. Cheap expo registration evaporates soon.

There is a brand new song “in the can,” and by that we mean finished. It is called “Oh, The Hilarity,” and it features another beautiful beat by Baddd Spellah. Acquire it along with the rest of the Indie Pop Cares A Lot tsunami victims’ benefit record, which will be available at the project’s site by the weekend.

Also featured on the IPCAL album is Add, whose new CD Divider does not seem to surrender control of the loop play on Front’s winamp. Nor should it.

Front apologizes to those who have written to him in recent years and been ignored. In some cases it was because Front is a dick, while in others the culprit was Front’s spam filter. Front has rigged it so that any emails containing the word bandersnatch pass through unscathed. Please try again.

What is true? This is true! That MC Frontalot is playing the Penny Arcade Expo for the second year in a row. Want to go there and jump up and down and geek out and play video games and see Front do his whole mic-rocking routine? It is in the upper lefthand corner of the continental US, so maybe it is far away from you. It is far away from Front too! That is no excuse! Buy your ticket now—August 26th through 28th will sneak up on you otherwise.

Who will Front share the stage with in Bellevue? Optimus Rhyme, Minibosses, and MC Chris. It is about as close to a nerdcore extravaganza as you can get.

Have you caught Chris’ tour? Front saw the Arlene’s Grocery gig and can vouch for his onstage awesomeness. Many opportunities remain!

Front’s new song is brewing. It is for a tsunami relief compilation and will not be very hilarious. Oh well!

Which dumbrella cartoonist did Front hang out with Friday night? Make sure you guess the right one. It is a trick question because the answer is: all of them!

John Allison makes scarygoround and talks funny, as if he were from somewhere far away. Probably New Zealand.

Jeff Rowland is a miscreant of the highest order, yet he took the time to thoughtfully inscribe this rhyme in Front’s copy of the 2nd wigu book: “Well my name’s Topato / and I’m here to say / dismay chardonnay / fillet cabernet / bombay faberge / melee Fay Raye / sashay.” He seemed disappointed that MC Frontalot could not readily supply a rhyme for poison.

Rosie (I think that’s his frat name) does funny animal comics. Cloudy (also more familiar an address than Front uses with him) does comics with one funny animal and one tragically crippled human. There are no humans in Mr. Bell’s illustration repository. And Front’s red robot hoody exposed him as a bit too much of a fan boy for Sam Brown to chat comfortably with.

And why were so many luminaries collected at one beer-drinking event? It was the birthday of mister r. stevens. Someone mentioned that he also makes some kind of web comic but it was not clear which.

New song! You download it, you listen to it. It’s that whole thing, like you’re used to. This one is a recording made for an as-yet untitled album of children’s songs, to be distributed through a nice charity. Why? Blame the John Benjamin Band for all this big-heartedness. Blame him also for the hosting of this track until Front gets it together to replace the amazing songhole.org (RIP) with a high-capacity alternative.

If you can host a few gigs (15-40) of transfer per month and want to hook mssr. front up with his own FTP account, you let us know. Wowsers, that was quick! Huge thanks to Roy & Joe of scenic Portland, OR.

Back to the subject of Children At The Mercy Of Western Medicine, those irrepressible rapscallions at PA are scheming up their second annual toy drive for kids’ hospitals. Help out.

Okay! New fan arts, new cute chicks, new lease on life. Also, front featured at unlikelystories. Enjoy!

MC Frontalot will spend the rest of the day and/or month mourning the conscience of the American people.

If you live in Brooklyn and want to make him feel better, why not stop by and lend him your extra PS2 and a copy of San Andreas? Or you could just paypal him enough free money to go rent such a setup for himself.

There will be lots of new songs soon! We know that regular readers of the frontalot.com news rectangle take a dim view of our notion of “soon.”

Until then, enjoy some of Front’s earlier (and seemingly ever underdogged) political material, keep an eye on the forces of good as well as the forces of eeble, and don’t let the fronting fade from your heart.

MC Frontalot is sick of waiting for the election. He would urge you to register to vote, but it is probably too late. Instead he proffers this message: if you registered, actually vote! Only then is the circle of life complete.

To honor the fiercely non-partisan centrism of frontalot.com, a certain someone has reimagineered the beat and provided a full remix of Special Delivery. Want it? Happy Thursday! This track was on a comp called BushTrashers which has been pulled from distribution by Homeland Security for undisclosed reasons.

Speaking of new things to listen to, wouldn’t you like to hear the whole of Front’s 2004 Penny Arcade Expo performance? Here’s Yellow Lasers in case you don’t believe us when we say that the bootleg is of questionable quality and that the rapper’s attention to such basics as accurate lyrics is ever suspect. Here’s the Valued Sucker Program if you want the rest of the MP3s.

New interview up at Daily Raider; go to! One w/ OJB in the interview graveyard! New cute girls wearing my shirt!! And did you see this?!?

BREAKING NEWS! Frontalot performs one song on Thurs night, Sept 16th, at The Living Room, 154 Ludlow Street, New York City. He’s guesting with a bunch of his musicianly pals at a Brandon Patton gig. Show starts at 7 pm.

And! Special Delivery has been remixed by Baddd Spellah for to be enfeaturated on BushTrashers, a decidedly punky CD that’s in stores now. Or order one.

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Dateline, Seattle – Four hundred or so lucky gamers won the Standing In Line Tournament and received tix to the nerdcore extravaganza at this year’s inaugural PAX convention. A couple thousand other attendees had less luck, though they retained the right to watch MC Frontalot, The Minibosses, Optimus Rhyme, et al, rocking the stage via video feed throughout the Meydenbauer Center.

Front begs you not to post your many photos of his face without applying the trademark confuse-o-dots. Thanks!

Performance audio and video will be available to members of front’s Valued Sucker Program within the span of eventually.

The convention itself was a grand success; Gabe & Tycho deserve big kudos. Front had a lovely time getting his ass kicked at UT2004, holding his own (barely) (and briefly) at Super Smash Bros, and playing a hand ofMunchkin until all hours of the morning. He wishes to thank the gang of kids who turned a graciously blind eye to his blatant cheating during the terminal round of that card game (thus allowing Front to squeeze out one triumph before bed).

Did you miss Frontalot’s cavalcade of merchandise? Perhaps you missed the convention itself? Relive/simulate the memories with a v.2.0 mcf tee shirt. Order two and we’ll throw in a PAX Souvenir CDR of recordings you’ve already heard repeatedly on the internet. While supplies last!

And please, take a cue from Paul Whitehead who missed the gig and responds with not bitterness but rad fan art.