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Show Notes – Episode #70 “More Geek Music”

Shannon and Matt — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:45:05 +0000

Women have become part of every aspect of the geek scene and music is no exception. For the third installment of our Women in Geekdom month we talk with three geek musicians working in three different genres. We have interviews with j-pop singer Rai Kamishiro, folk rocker Marian Call and nerdcore hip-hop MC Nursehella and we’ll be playing some samples of their music!

As usual, we also have a roundup of Seattle area geek events, the weekly geek news and Shannon reviews another bad movie.

Our Geek Week

More Cataclysm beta! Look for the week three post this weekend. It will be all about the Warlock class!
Listening to the audiobook of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Read Scott Pilgrim vol. 1 – 5
Read Chew vol. 2
Watched Predators in the theater
Went to the #NotAtComicCon party at Comics Dungeon

Women in Geek Music

Rai Kamishiro

Rai on Bandcamp

Marian Call

Nursehella

Nursehella on PureVolume

Dare Shannon to Watch a Bad Movie

This week’s bad movie was Black Roses (1988) dared by Jeremy.

The trailer is online and is mildly not safe for work/small children/those who are easily offended. You can look it up if you really feel you must.

Shannon is taking next week off from the bad movies but they will return in Episode #72!

If you want to dare Shannon to watch a bad movie, e-mail us at seattlegeekly@gmail.com or call us at (206)201-2352. Check our Dared Movies Page to see what is on the list and what Shannon has already watched.

Contest!

Comic Swag Giveaway!

We have a pile of comic swag to give away. Some single issues, a couple compilations and even a couple Hellboy figures! Check our Contest Page for details and to find out how to enter!

News

‘The Clockwork Girl’ Animated Feature From Arcana Comic. You can watch the trailer the premiered at SDCC here. We had a chance to visit the Clockwork Girl creators from Frogchildren Studios in Episode #17.
Star Trek Online Season Two begins, price lowered to $20
The Guild’s Game On video

Events

Conventions

July 30 – August 1, 2010 – SpoCon 2010 – Spokane, WA Guests include: Michael Whelan, Tanya Huff, Seanan Mc Guire, and many more

Events

TweetMTG this weekend

Puppet This presents – Puppets Gone Glee
When: Sat, July 31, 11am – 1pm
Where: The Market Theater 1428 Post Alley Seattle, WA 98101
PUPPETS GONE GLEE bounces into The Market Theater for one performance only, Saturday, July 31st at 11:00am. Bursting with a cast of colorful puppet characters, this outrageous musical show is fun for the whole family. Co-produced by Andrew Agee Productions, Puppet This, and Unexpected Productions, PUPPETS GONE GLEE features music inspired by the hit TV show, plenty of puppet mayhem and a magical black light finale.

Outdoor Trek: “The Naked Time”
When: Sat, July 31, 7pm – 9pm
Where: Lavizzo Park S Jackson St and E Yesler Way, Seattle
Hello Earth presents Outdoor Trek: “The Naked Time”. Hello Earth is a new, non-profit theater company devoted to bringing free, outdoor theater to Seattle and they are proud to bing a live stage adaptation of the classic original series Star Trek episode The Naked Time to audiences in Seattle for FREE! The production runs on Saturdays and Sundays through August 8.

Labyrinth Launch Signing
Come enjoy the launch of the 5th Greywalker novel by local Seattle author Kat Richardson.
When: Tue Aug 3 7pm – 8:30pm Pacific Time
Where: University Book Store, Seattle (map)
AND
When: Wed, August 4, 12pm – 1pm
Where: Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry Street in Pioneer Square
Harper Blaine became a Greywalker when she was shot and was briefly dead. Now the man who shot her has been murdered, and Harper has to track down his ghost while avoiding the rap for his death. She is, after all, the perfect prime suspect.

Mark Henry and Nicole Peeler: Book Signing/General Mahemmery
When Wed, August 4, 7pm – 9pm
Where Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA (map)
Description It will be inevitably be vulgar, my friends. Please invite all your Seattle, WA, and OR peeps! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134842456549862

Author Signing: Kelley Armstrong
When: Wed, August 4, 7pm – 9pm
Where: Barnes & Noble – University Village (2675 NE University Village, Seattle, WA)
Kelly Armstrong signs her book Waking the Witch. The orphaned daughter of a sorcerer and a half-demon, Savannah is a terrifyingly powerful young witch who has never been able to resist the chance to throw her magical weight around. But at 21 she knows she needs to grow up and prove to her guardians, Paige and Lucas, that she can be a responsible member of their supernatural detective agency. So she jumps at the chance to fly solo, investigating the mysterious deaths of three young women in a nearby factory town as a favour to one of the agency’s associates. At first glance, the murders look garden-variety human, but on closer inspection signs point to otherworldly stakes.

Late Nights at the EMP/SFM
When: Thu, August 5, 5pm – 9pm
Where: EMP|SFM, 325 5th Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109
Late Nights is a new program that offers guests extended visiting hours during the busy summer months, live music by local bands and drink specials in Sky Church. August’s Late Nights: Performances by Seattle’s one and only Herb Alpert inspired Rat City Brass. Ticket Info: Admission to Late Nights is included in daily admission to EMP|SFM. Cost is: Free for members; $15 for adults; $12 for children (ages 5-17), students, military and seniors. Children under 5 are free.During Late Nights, all exhibits (including featured or special exhibitions) are open and included in the cost of admission.

Music

In addition to the music from our featured artists this week, music was Game On by The Guild.

Next week: Episode #71 – We’ll be talking to Daryl Frazetti a cultural anthropologist about bringing pop culture into the classroom, and Roger Nygard director of Trekkies & Trekkies 2 about his new project The Nature of Existence

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The Guild Rocks!

Shannon and Matt — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:12:03 +0000

Chances are good that everyone who cares has already run across this in their travels across the internet but it is too good to not post. The cast of The Guild has come out with another amazing music video. They set the bar pretty high with Do You Wanna Date My Avatar and they have bumped it up a notch with Game On.

The only problem with the song? Who the heck raids on a Tuesday?

Do You Like Nerdcore?

Shannon and Matt — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:56:10 +0000

What a fantastic week it has been for music videos with geek appeal. Today’s installments come courtesy of MC Frontalot and our main man from the Tri Cities Beefy.

Beefy and videographer Joe Quigley put together a video for Join My Guild from Beefy’s latest album With Sprinkles in anticipation of the start of Season 4 of The Guild. Enjoy!

Next we have the video for MC Frontalot’s latest single, First World Problem from the album Zero Day. If you were lucky enough to catch Front at either w00tstock or the show he did at the High Dive you may have seen him perform this song live and now you can check out the official video.

Do You Like Wolverine?

Shannon and Matt — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:36:18 +0000

Not even going to go with the “alert listeners may remember” bit for this one, if you haven’t heard us talking about Kirby Krackle you REALLY have not been paying attention. Their latest album, E for Everyone, remains in heavy rotation on both of our play lists. Filmmaker and KK fan Todd Downing has put together a short film/music video for the week-in-the-life-of-Wolverine song On and On which is the second track on the album. Enjoy!

Do You Like Zombies?

Shannon and Matt — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:44:10 +0000

Alert listeners will have heard us mention the zombie western comic Rotten a couple of times in the past and hopefully you’ve been picking it up and reading it. If you haven’t (or even if you have) you may want to check out the “Rotten Music Video” It gives a great sense of what the comic is all about. Enjoy!

Show Notes – Episode #64 “Another Geek Music Show”

Shannon and Matt — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:26:28 +0000

Once again it’s time for some new additions to your Geek Music play list. This week we finally catch up with three artists that we’ve been talking about and even playing on the show but haven’t had a chance to actually sit down and interview before now; Geek folk-rocker John Anealio, Ultraklystron, one of the godfathers of Northwest nerdcore and nerdcore group Death*Star who celebrated the release of their first full length album just this Saturday.

As always we also have geek news and Seattle area geek events including another interview with Dan Halligan, promotions director for the upcoming Northwest Pinball and Gameroom show.

Our Geek Week

Played more World of Warcraft
Went to Death*Star’s CD release party at the Blue Moon. Also performing were Ultraklystron and Billy the Fridge. Check out a few pictures of the night on our Flickr page
Caught up on some TV. Fringe, Breaking Bad, Tudors and Dr. Who
Played Talisman with the Dungeon expansion. Thanks to Berserk Games!

Another Geek Music Show

Ultraklystron

<a href="http://ultraklystron.bandcamp.com/track/congratulations">congratulations by Ultraklystron</a>

Ultraklystron on Band Camp
Electric Sheep by Rai Kamishiro produced by Ultraklystron

John Anealio

John Anealio on CD Baby
The Functional Nerds podcast

Death*Star

Death*Star on Bandcamp

Dare Shannon to Watch a Bad Movie

This week’s Bad Movie was Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1973)

If you want to dare Shannon to watch a bad movie, e-mail us at seattlegeekly@gmail.com or call us at (206)201-2352

Check our Dared Movies Page to see what is on the list and what Shannon has already watched.

Next week’s movie will be Lo (2009) Dared by Kristen of the Geek Girls Network

News

Events

June 4 – 7, 2010 Astoria, Oregon Never Say Die: The Goonies 25th Anniversary Celebration. Celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Goonies with three days of events including A Goonies themed concert at Warren Field, as seen in the opening of the film, with performances by: Truth Movemen, The Ataris, The Whiskey Rebellion and Troy’s Bucket, a VIP Dinner with the cast of the film, bus tours to film locations and more. Tickets to individual events are available and weekend passes to all events are $130. For more information go to gooniesanniversary.com
June 4, 2010 Central Cinema 1411 21st Ave, Seattle – The Lobster and the Liver. The Seattle True Independent Film Festival screens this feature-length documentary about the great cartoonist Jim Woodring featuring interviews with Peter Bagge, Jim Blanchard, Ellen Forney and Charles Krafft.
June 9, 2010 10:15pm JewelBox Theater 2322 2nd Ave, Seattle – Kirby Krackle and Los Basterdos. Kirby Krackle and Los Basterdos play live as part of the Seattle True Independent Film Festival, hosted by Joe Henry.
- Northwest Pinball & Gameroom Show. Thanks to Dan Halligan for giving us the scoop on what to expect at the show!

Music

Music this week was selections from our interviewees Ultraklystron, John Anealio and Death*Star

Next show: Episode #65 – The Future is Now – We speak with a few futurists and authors about what we can expect Seattle to look like in the next 30 years.

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Monday News Roundup – Tuesday Edition

Matt — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:55:24 +0000

Ladies and Gentlemen, Death*Star has arrived. Alert listeners to Seattle Geekly will have heard us talking about Death*Star on occasion, mostly about the remarkably good quality of their live performances. Well now I’m going to do it again. Death*Star had the release party for their first full length CD, The Fandom Menace on Saturday at the Blue Moon Tavern. The arrival of the long-awaited album and the performance they gave on Saturday have moved them solidly from the “hey, these guys are pretty good” category to the “holy crap, why aren’t these guys famous” category.

The show on Saturday was opened by Ultraklystron who effortlessly kicked out a set that I imagine most performers would happily trade a major internal organ to be able to pull off and Billy the Fridge also made a brief appearance. I’ve seen Billy the Fridge live three or four times now and he just gets better every time.

The highlight of the night, though, was Death*Star. The addition of DJ Bill Beats backing up C0splay and MC-3PO pushed their sound over the top to straight up amazing. You should absolutely pick up The Fandom Menace, which Bill Beats also contributed heavily to, but if you are a serious fan of nerdcore you owe it to yourself to see Death*Star live. Songs like ‘Bounce’, ‘Quick and the Dead’ and ‘Sound of Nerdcore’, which are strong entries on the album, are brought to a whole new level when performed live. There was a large and enthusiastic crowd at the Blue Moon on Saturday but that seems to be fairly typical of Death*Star shows. Fortunately Death*Star seems to enjoy playing live so you should have plenty of opportunities to catch them if you haven’t already.

Your ~~Monday~~ Tuesday news is under the fold.

Books

Wil Wheaton and John Scalzi are teaming up for an interesting cherity project. From John Scalzi’s blog;

For the benefit of the Lupus Alliance of America, John Scalzi, Wil Wheaton and Subterranean Press are running a fan fiction contest, in which contestants write a 400 to 2,000 word story describing the picture above. Any form of fan fiction is acceptable except slash. The winner of the contest will be paid for their story (10 cents a word), win a prize pack of books from Subterranean Press, and will have their story published in a special electronic chapbook featuring stories about the painting, written by Scalzi, Wheaton, Catherynne Valente and Patrick Rothfuss, to be published later this year, with profits to benefit the Lupus Foundation of America. E-mail the stories with the text in the e-mail to fanfic@scalzi.com by 11:59pm Eastern, June 30, 2010. One entry per person.

The painting in question is the image to the right, which you can click on to embiggen.

MMO
- If you’ve been waiting impatiently for more information on the development of the DC Universe MMORPG you’re in luck. Game Director Chris Cao and Creative Director Jens Anderson have put out another in the series of Inside the Studio videos in which they answer questions posed to them by fans on Facebook. They have some tantalizing information about character creation (which is always the best part of any superhero game in my opinion) including the option to create a character “inspired by” existing DC characters that you can then customize. DCUO is set for release this November, and will be launching simultaneously on the PC and PS3 platforms.
Movies
- Multiple sites across the internet are reporting that Guillermo Del Toro has stepped down as director of The Hobbit. Del Toro blamed “the mounting pressures of conflicting schedules” for his decision. MGM, the studio behind the proposed two-film adaptation, is mired in finacial trouble and the start date for shooting has been delayed multiple times. On the up side, maybe this means Del Toro will finally get around to making At The Mountains Of Madness
Music
- Jonathan Coulton has a new album in the works! He made the announcement on his blog last week. According to the post, he will be debuting new songs at a couple of live shows next month (both on the east coast unfortunately) and then heading to New York to start recording. He promises “fantastic new songs with talented musicians using high quality audio equipment” but offers no release date.

Monday News Roundup 05/10

Matt — Sun, 09 May 2010 22:41:20 +0000

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.

Show Notes – Episode #53 “Geek Grab Bag”

Shannon and Matt — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:53:49 +0000

Both of us have been struck by an icky upper respiratory funk this week so we bring you a show that is a somewhat abbreviated from what we had planned so we can get back to resting and recuperating in anticipation of of Emerald City ComiCon this weekend!

The show may be shortened, but the quality is still there! This week we bring you interviews from across the geeky spectrum. We talk with steampunk musicians Toy Box Trio about their new album Miniature Menagerie, CEO of Fugazo Games Andrew Lum about Fugazo’s new WiiWare game Frobot and filmmakers Robert “Benny” Couch, Jason “Doctor Boxcar” Slingerland and Wilhelm “The Pixie” Rumpf about their documentary Hobocon.

We even fought through our failing voices to talk about a few Seattle area geek events and the weekly geek news.

Our Geek Week

Watched the Oscars
Started what will hopefully be a semi-regular D20 Star Wars role playing game
Playing Final Fantasy XIII on the PS3

Geek Grab Bag

Geek Music

Toy Box Trio
- Official site
- Check out our review of Miniature Menagerie

Geek Game

Frobot
- Official site
- Fugazo’s YouTube Channel which has gameplay trailers and a music video!

Geek Movie

Hobocon
- Official site
- “The Many Moods of Benny” teaser

News

Events

Conventions
- March 13 – 14, 2010 – Emerald City ComiCon – Seattle, WA
  - Hang out with Seattle Geekly and try your hand at some Star Trek Trivia with Larry Nemecek at one of our two meetups!
  - After the con on Saturday come see The Guild cast members Jeff “Vork” Lewis and Sandeep “Zaboo” Parikh on stage flexing their improvisation muscles with Seattle’s own Unexpected Productions. Advance tickets are highly recommended.
Events
- March 13, 2010 Odd Duck Studio 1214 10th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 Puppet This presents The Knights of Nowhere – Puppet This’s first official production, written by Brandon Felker based on an idea by Lindsey Newman, The Knights of Nowhere tells the story of misfits Theodore, Enis and Stuart as they square off against diabolical school bully Leslie and his sidekick Big Toe in an ultimate battle for the Beacon Academy playground. Will the boys’ IQ scores and kung fu skills be enough to help them discover the Super Secret Secret to Leslie’s downfall? Crafted in the spirit of The Goonies and Puppet Up, The Knights of Nowhere features strong language and graphic puppet violence and is not recommended for actual children.
- March 13, 2010, 10:30pm Market Theater 1428 Post Alley, Seattle – TheatreSports with The Guild. Unexpected Productions is thrilled to announce a special edition of Seattle TheatreSports! For one night only our cast of improvisors will be joined by two stars from the hit web series “The Guild”: Sandeep Parikh (@sandeepparikh, aka “Zaboo”) and Jeff Lewis (@jeffylew, aka “Vork”)! Both are in town as media guests of the Emerald City ComicCon. In addition to their work on The Guild, Sandeep is also the creator of the Comedy Central produced webseries, “The Legend of Neil” (@legendofneil). Jeff recently guest starred on the hit TV series “Glee”. Tickets are $12 online or $15 at the door, if available. Advance tickets are highly encouraged for this special event.
- March 13, 2010 7pm Empty Sea Studios 6300 Phinney Ave, Seattle – Toy Box Trio CD Release Party. Steampunk musicians Toy Box Trio celebrate the release of their first CD Miniature Menagerie. The 7pm Early show features guests God’s Favorite Beefcake and the 9pm Late show features Bakelite 78! Tickets are $13 online (via emptysea.com) or $15 at the door.
- March 19, 2010 8 – 10pm Neptune Coffee 415 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle – Seattle Geekly Trivia Night. This month join us for Doctor Who Trivia! We’ll be covering the new series from 2005 – present but never fear classic Whovians! We’ll have an old school night in the future. Form a team or join one on the night. Test your knowledge and win prizes!
- March 21, 2010 1 – 5pm Green Lake Games 7509 Aurora Ave N, Seattle – Game Night with Seattle Geekly – Join us for a casual afternoon of boardgaming. Play a favorite or learn something new! Finish off the weekend right and maybe win a door prize!

Contest!

We have a CD copy of Miniature Menagerie, the first full length album from Toy Box Trio and it could be yours!

Charmingly quirky music that shifts from whimsical to creepy, from lullabies to marches. It is the soundtrack to a forgotten circus, a broken childhood memory, a magic music box full of dust and wonder.
- Sarah Shay, Jew-ish.com

The contest runs from March 11 until March 21 with the winner picked on March 22. We’ll ship the CD to you via USPS

“How do I enter?”
Please register / log in to our website, and leave a comment on THIS POST. You can just say “hi” or whatever! One entry per person please, we’ll delete any multiple or offensive posts. Make sure you use a valid e-mail address when you register so we can contact you if you win!

“How will you randomly pick someone?”
We have D&D dice of all shapes and sizes, even a 100 sider! We’ll roll and see who wins!

Music

Music this week was selections from the new Kirby Krackle album E For Everyone. Check out our review then head over to Kirby Krackle’s website to pick up a copy. Don’t forget that you can see KK playing LIVE at Emerald City ComiCon on Sunday at 2pm!

You also heard tracks from Miniature Menagerie by Toy Box Trio. You can pick up their album and see them live this weekend as well at their CD release party!

Next week’s show will be Episode #54, the first of a planned two Emerald City ComiCon wrap-up shows. We’re planning on talking to a lot of comics creators and artists this weekend and we’ll be bringing you the highlights!

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Album Reviews – Toy Box Trio and Kirby Krackle

Shannon and Matt — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:30:13 +0000

March is a good month for Geek Music fans. Several of our favorite bands have new offerings out this month and we wanted to share our thoughts on two of them, Miniature Menagerie by Toy Box Trio and E For Everyone by Kirby Krackle.

Miniature Menagerie by Toy Box Trio

How best to describe the experience of listening to Toy Box Trio? Their music is enjoyable, well crafted and expertly performed, but the listening experience is more complicated than that. Imagine you decided to make yourself a sandwich one day and you looked in the refrigerator and saw that you only had three ingredients that really didn’t go together. You decide to go ahead and use those ingredients anyway and somehow, almost magically, they merge into one of the most delicious sandwiches you have ever tasted. That is kind of what listening to Toy Box Trio is like.

The band is made up of Dana Wen, Nate Lee and founder Harlan Glotzer. They perform their music on the unlikely combination of toy piano, tuba, and concertina and together they create music that is unique, haunting and strangely compelling.

This may not be music that you want to have in heavy rotation on your iPod, but it is certainly music you want in your collection. If you are looking for something to create an atmosphere the next time you are playing Cthulhu by Gaslight, the H.P. Lovecraft role playing game set in the 19th century, having Miniature Menagerie on in the background would be a great fit. If a movie is ever made of Cherie Priest‘s book Boneshaker, Toy Box Trio should compose the soundtrack.

Not only do we recommend you pick up a copy of Miniature Menagerie, we also recommend you make an effort to see Toy Box Trio perform live. They play frequently in various venues around the city and seeing them live really adds to the charm of their music.

We sat down with Dana Wen and Harlan Glotzer to talk about Toy Box Trio earlier this week and you’ll want to tune into the podcast this Thursday (March 11) to hear what they had to say.

You can find more information on the band as well as their concert schedule and samples of their music at ToyBoxTrio.com

E For Everyone by Kirby Krackle

Alert listeners to our podcast will already know that we are huge fans of Kirby Krackle. We picked up their first album way back in Episode #7 and we’ve been hooked ever since. Well a year has passed, their second album E For Everyone has finally arrived and it does not disappoint.

Songwriter Jim Demonakos and musical front-man Kyle Stevens have said from the beginning that their goal is to create cool music with geeky content and that is what they have done with E For Everyone. You could very easily play tracks like Vault 101 and On and On for non-geeks and all they would hear is the rocking latter day alternative sound without ever noticing that the lyrics were about Fallout 3 and Wolverine respectively.

This is not to say that the whole album is all straight laced rock songs. There are some fun fangirl/boy songs like Can I Watch You?, Henchman, and Secret Identity and they included remixed versions of fan favorites Ring Capacity (their summer single from last year) and Going Home (originally given out exclusively to attendees of the 2009 Long Beach ComicCon).

E For Everyone revisits many of the same themes from their first album which works better for some songs than others. Roll Over (which features California hip-hop artist GMK The Great) is an amazingly fun track that is a tribute to the women of Saturday morning cartoons, similar to what they did for the women of comics in Marvelous Girls. Dusty Cartridges & Long Boxes though, while a decent excursion into geek romance, is not quite up to the level of Naked Wii from the first album.

Over all this is a great sophomore album for Kirby Krackle. The addition of musicians from their live backing band to the studio recordings really punched up their sound and the album definitely lends itself to multiple listenings if for no other reason than the density of geeky easter eggs in the lyrics.

You can find more information on Kirby Krackle and listen to the E For Everyone in its entirety at KirbyKrackleMusic.com

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Our Geek Week

Women in Geek Music

Dare Shannon to Watch a Bad Movie

Contest!

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The Guild Rocks!

Do You Like Nerdcore?

Do You Like Wolverine?

Do You Like Zombies?

Show Notes – Episode #64 “Another Geek Music Show”

Our Geek Week

Another Geek Music Show

Dare Shannon to Watch a Bad Movie

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Monday News Roundup – Tuesday Edition

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MMO

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Monday News Roundup 05/10

Anime

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Show Notes – Episode #53 “Geek Grab Bag”

Our Geek Week

Geek Grab Bag

News

Events

Contest!

Music

Album Reviews – Toy Box Trio and Kirby Krackle

Miniature Menagerie by Toy Box Trio

E For Everyone by Kirby Krackle