To start off the Monday news I wanted to talk about a couple of upcoming album releases. Many of you will know that this weekend was a big geek weekend in Seattle. Not only did we have w00tstock but there was an amazing night of nerdcore music at the High Dive featuring Billy the Fridge, Lisa Dank, Beefy, and MC Frontalot. At the High Dive show we were delighted to hear Beefy do a couple tracks of his forthcoming album With Sprinkles. We spoke with Beefy after the show and he told us that the last track for the album was being mastered and that it would be off to the printer early this week, meaning that it should be released into the wild very soon. If you just can’t wait you can hear the first single “Geek Out” on Beefy’s site and you can hear the live version of “Up Up and Away” that he did at the High Dive on our YouTube channel.

Unsurprisingly, one of our other favorite nerdcore groups, Death*Star, was also at the show and even took the stage to do a song with Billy the Fridge. Cosplay was nice enough to give us a heads-up that Death*Star also has a new album in the works called Soldiers of Fortran. Stay tuned because you know we’ll be talking about it when it comes out.

The other big event we went to was the regional Pokemon video game championships. We’re going to have a special Geekly Spotlight show coming out tomorrow where we talk about what we saw but, once again, if you can’t wait you can check out some video we shot on our YouTube channel. Our regular Thursday show is going to be another author episode. We’ll be talking to Ken Scholes and Scott Nicholson about their work.

Your Monday news is under the fold.

Anime

• The 2004 CGI film of Masamune Shirow’s Appleseed is headed to Blu-ray. Sentai and Section23 Films are releasing the film on May 18 and it will include an all new dub featuring the voice cast from Appleseed: Ex Machina. The Blu-ray will include most of the extra features from the original DVD release and adds a 35 minute “making of” piece called “The Birth of 3D Live Anime”.

Comics

• Writer Mark Millar has announced that he is working on both comic and movie sequels for his book Kick-Ass. Comics Alliance is reporting that the new Kick-Ass comics will be part of Millar’s new magazine CLINT the first issue of which will be out in the UK this September. The movie, titled Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, will start production in 2011 and be in theaters in 2012.

Movies

• Burried in a Hollywood Reporter story about Jason Priestley’s latest foray into the director’s chair is the news that Splice director Vincenzo Natali has been selected to replace Joseph Khan as the director of the film adaptation of William Gibson’s Neuromancer. The film has a tentative release date of 2011 and will reportedly star Hayden “Anakin Skywalker” Christensen. Yay.