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Geek Music: 15 Songs Celebrating Nerd Girls
In my recent exploration of the nerdcore hip-hop and nerd rock genres, I’ve encountered a very special type of song. They celebrate the nerd girl, the one who loves Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings,...
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Geek Music Debate: Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer vs. Professor Elemental
Teacore or chap-hop? Mr. B, the Gentleman Rhymer or Professor Elemental? Yup, that’s right, it’s a genuine rap battle in the nerdcore world. The battle has officially begun with Professor Elemental’s...
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Geek Music Review: ‘MC Horse Rides Again’ by The Grammar Club
The Grammar Club is a nerdy supergroup consisting primarily of bitpop artist Shael Riley and nerdcore rapper Beefy. This is their second release, and, like their last one, it is available for free...
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Geek Music Review: Recent Releases for April 2011
In the last couple of months, there have been several geek music releases that I’ve been enjoying but haven’t yet had time to review. They are, however, worth mentioning and promoting, so I thought...
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Geek Music Review: ‘Ultimate Songs from the Pit,’ by Shael Riley and the...
Ultimate Songs from the Pit takes ten new tracks and adds them to six remastered tracks from Songs from the Pit. The production quality of the album is clear; it should be since the engineer has also...
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Geek Music: Nerdcore’s Next Gen Part 1
Last August, I featured an introduction to nerdcore via some of the founders of the genre. Admittedly, I was still a little new to the genre myself, and so I missed a few obvious ones: Optimus Rhyme,...
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Geek Music: Geeky Women Who Make Music
While listening to recent episodes of the Fandomania podcast in which Jason and Celeste discuss the male privilege and sexism of certain TV show creators, I decided to postpone the second part of the...
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Geek Music: Nerdcore’s Next Gen Part 2
And now back to your regularly scheduled columns. In Part Two of this introduction to the next generation of nerdcore, I feature several artists that are new to me. Most of them I discovered while...
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Geek Music: Recent Releases for March 2012
Looks like it’s time once again for a mass review column. This time I feature a nerdcore album based on Star Wars: The Old Republic, a new Scrub Club artist, and some new stuff from nerdcore’s next...
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Geek Music Reviews for September 2012
Well, geez, it seems it’s that time again. The new releases have been piling up again, and it’s time to promote a bunch of cool stuff at once. It seems every time I think I have a handle on the new...
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Reflections on Three Years (or So) of Writing About Geek Music
It’s hard to believe that I’ve been writing this column for a little over three years. My first real introduction to writing about geek music was Nerdapalooza 2010. My first column under the “Geek...
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Erik Recommends: Starbomb – Starbomb
Unless you’ve been away from YouTube and the Internet as a whole for a while, you’ve probably heard of the YouTube gaming phenomenon GameGrumps. After the departure of the original “Not So Grump”...
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Alpha Riff –‘Digital Champions: Migdal Bavel’ Review
Back when I previewed Alpha Riff’s Digital Champions, all that I really knew was that the album would be set in a cyberpunk world. That alone was intriguing, given that I was a huge cyberpunk fan back...
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