Geek music has come a long way in the last few years. There are countless artists working in a variety of musical styles that are all expressing their love of all things geek from Nerdcore rap to instrumental jazz. Episode #7 features an interview with Seattle based “Comic Book Rock Band” Kirby Krackle as well as information on a few of our other favorite artists. We are also pleased to announce our very first super prize giveaway in this week’s episode!
All that and the review of our geek week, news and geek events in the northwest!
Our Geek Week
♦Peggle on the Xbox Live
♦Mortal Combat vs. DC…Wonder Woman was fun but she flies.
♦Supernatural turned creepy this week.
♦Full Metal Alchemist DVDs
♦Steampunk University Vendor’s room
♦Warhammer: Battle of Finuval Plains at the Games Workshop at Carkeek Plaza
Geek Music Madness
♦Kirby Krackle, the world’s first comic book rock band
Kirby Krackle will be playing at Emerald City Comic Con on Sunday April 5th!
GIVEAWAY details! We have a signed Kirby Krackle CD and poster to giveaway to our listeners! Sign in to our website and leave a comment on THIS POST. Make sure you use a functional e-mail address when you log in because we will be using that to contact the winner!
♦Lemon Demon
Bad Idea video
♦MC Frontalot
Nerdcore Rising documentary
Nerdcore For Life documentary
♦Optimus Rhyme
Obey the Moderator video
♦Captain Dan & the Scurvey Dogs
Deadmines video
Geek News
♦Local connections to this year’s Hugo Awards. Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio and Cheyenne Wright are nominated for Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones. Seattle-based artist Dave Howell has won the competition to design the 2009 Hugo Award statue base. His winning Hugo base design will be unveiled at Anticipation’s Hugo Awards Ceremony on Sunday, August 9. Go Seattle!
♦March 29 episode of Family Guy to feature the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
♦Last chance to enter Blizzard’s Theme Park Contest is March 30th
Award Categories:
Best Overall Blizzard Theme Park
(incorporating StarCraft, Warcraft, and Diablo)
“Grand Prize – Wacom Cintiq 12WX Digitizing Tablet, Echoes of War: The Music of Blizzard Entertainment, and two (2) StarCraft II beta keys”
Best StarCraft Area or Theme Park
“1st Prize – Echoes of War: The Music of Blizzard Entertainment and two (2) StarCraft II beta keys”
Best Warcraft Area or Theme Park
” 1st Prize – Echoes of War: The Music of Blizzard Entertainment and two (2) StarCraft II beta keys”
Best Diablo Area or Theme Park
“1st Prize – Echoes of War: The Music of Blizzard Entertainment and two (2) StarCraft II beta keys”
♦Quantum of Solace came out on DVD March 24th!
♦Monsters vs. Aliens in Theaters March 27th in regular theaters and in 3D
♦ECCC News: MICHAEL HOGAN who plays Colonel Saul Tigh on Battlestar Galactica has joined the 2009 Emerald City ComiCon line-up as our newest media guest!
♦Miyazaki’s “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea” will be released in North America on August 14, 2009.
Seattle Geek Events
♦March 26 – 29, 2009 – GameStorm – Vancouver, Washington
The Pacific Northwest’s Premiere Social and Strategic Game Convention
Seattle Geekly may be attending on Friday!
♦March 27, 2009 7pm University Book Store Mill Creek, WA – Aaron Allston reads and signs Outcast (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, Book 1)
♦March 27, 2009 8pm Neptune Coffee Seattle – Star Trek (TNG) trivia contest
♦March 27 & 28 and April 3 & 4, 2009 – Grand Illusion Seattle – Come celebrate the 41st Anniversary of George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie flick Night of the Living Dead! Shows at 11pm.
♦March 27 & 28, 2009 – 9am – Key Arena – Robotics Competition – FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) launches its FIRST Robotics Competition season with a Kickoff event. The 2009 season will includes 49 high school teams in Washington. FREE and open to the public.
♦March 28, 2009 10am- Noon – GPS Adventures at the Pacific Science Center – To celebrate the opening of our newest exhibit, GPS Adventures, we invite you to come meet the founders of geocaching.com, enjoy hands-on family activities, visit with Geocachers from around the region and find out what makes this such a worldwide phenomenon! Come through the Main Entrance to participate in this event. This event is FREE and does not include access to our exhibit halls. A ticket or membership is needed to access Pacific Science Center’s exhibits, including GPS Adventures.
♦March 28, 2009 – 8am -Guitar Hero World Tour Tournament Benefitting Tacoma’s Need A Break Services – Hundreds of local kids, employee groups, families and church “bands” jamming away at Guitar Hero and trying to win the $999 first prize and other prizes; benefits Need A Break Services home makeovers for the needy. $50 Cascade Christian High School 811 21st St. S.E., Puyallup, WA 98372
♦March 28, 2009 – 1pm – 3pm – Wii Super Smash Bros. Tournament Mountlake Terrace Library - Think you have what it takes to be the Mountlake Terrace Smash Bros. champ? Compete against other neighborhood teens in this fun Wii elimination tournament. Sponsored by the Friends of the Mountlake Terrace Library.
♦March 28, 2009 First Pick Games 4228 Stone Way North, Seattle – World of Warcraft TCG Qualifying – Format: Constructed Registration: 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM Entry Fee: $10.00 AND WoW TCG Booster Draft Challenge Registration: 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Tournament Start: 1:00 pm (Note: Start time may change based on attendance in main event.) Entry fee: $15.00 Tournament Format: Booster Draft Challenge
♦March 29, 2009 1pm Heroclix at Dreamstrands Comics in Greenwood – 300 point constructed Objects of Doom! (your team must consist of ONLY characters with inanimate objects in their names, i.e. Iron Man, Green Lantern, etc)
♦March 1 – 29, 2009 Utilikilts Pioneer Square 620 1st Avenue, Seattle – The Photography of Libby Bulloff, steampunk and retrotech photography.
♦March 30, 2009 7pm Richard Hugo House 1634 Eleventh Avenue Seattle – Fantastic Fiction Salon “Planning Your Novel” with Nancy Kress
♦March 31, 2009 7pm University of Washington Bookstore Seattle – L.E. Modesitt Jr signs his latest book Imager
Music today the Intro, breaks and outro was Kirby Krackle’s “Back to the Beginning:, intro to our Kirby Krackle interview was “Up, Up, Down, Down” Outro to Kirby Krackle interview was “Zombie Apocalypse”
Next Week’s Show: With so many conventions coming up we share our con stories as well as those submitted by our listeners and give some advice on how to survive a con!
7 Responses to “Show Notes – Episode #7 “Geek Music””
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You need to work on the sound levels for future episodes. When I started the pod cast the music blared out in the office, turned it down and then I couldn’t hear when you both started talking. Looking forward to listening to the rest of it.
Meh, who wants to hear us talk anyway?
Seriously though I’ll have Shannon look in to that. She’s in charge of the editing. Thanks for letting us know!
Weird, I tried hard not to have that happen. Did you download it from iTunes or our page? I’ll check it again and will see what I can do!
This week I pulled it from itunes. This happened every time you played music.
the sound does not seem to be too much louder than the talking for me…
Ahhh…your podcast makes the work day go by better. The sound seemed ok for me.
I’m not sure what kind of sound mixing software you’re using but there should be a way that you can check your decibal levels. Of course you’ll probably want to have them even throughout the whole show. If you ever need any help with sound editing let me know.