Our good friends at Geek Entertainment TV, Irinia and Nicholas, but together an awesome video for the first single off of the Digital Gangster LP… check it out!!

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Rock on homies.

MC Lars

Currently reading : The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More By Roald Dahl Release date: 2001-09-11

I’m writing from the Marriott in Salt Lake City, Utah. I’ve been on tour with Suburban Legends for the past few days. Today is our day off and tonight we drive to San Francisco. We’ve been debuting our collaboration, the title track from my upcoming solo album, “This Gigantic Robot Kills.” I love touring with Suburban Legends because they have that fun Orange County / Aquabats / happy-ska crossover audience. YTCracker came out and performed with me in Denver and it was great.

A few weeks ago, YTCracker flew out to San Francisco and we booked a week in the recording studio with the Rondo Brothers. The Rondo Brothers are two Bay Area producers, Jim Greer and Brandon Arnovick, who have done lots of things with Dan the Automator and Del the Funky Homosapien and all sorts of cool indie hip-hop artists. They also produced the biggest radio-play receiving single on “The Graduate,” “Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock”. They gave us a great deal on studio time and YTCracker and I stayed at my good friends’ Matt and Calvin’s apartment in the Castro and spend our days on Potrero Hill writing and recording at the Rondo’s studio. We collaborated so well together that within a week we had 14 songs! We then sent the ProTools session to Long Island production genius Mike Sapone who took a break from his Brand New sessions and mixed the record for us. He sent me the final proofs and the tracks sound AMAZING! We have lots of guests, including K. Flay, the Former Fat Boys, Schaffer the Darklord, Zealous1, Beefy, MC Router, MC Frontalot, int80 of Dual Core and Doctor Popular. It’s a “who’s who” of nerdcore in 2008 and I’m very happy to have been a part of it.

These 14 songs are all going to be on our next CD, “The Digital Gangster LP,” available for online ordering November 1st. We’re copying Radiohead in that we are giving the album away, but if you donate a certain amount we’ll send you the CD, and if you donate a higher amount you’ll get the vinyl and a t-shirt. We’ll also be selling the tour on our upcoming tour with MC Frontalot next month.

YTCracker is exactly what I’ve been looking for in a rap partner for years. His rhymes are clever, he’s quick in the studio (does all his verses in one or two takes), and is very on top of his business stuff. Together we form a cool duo that has elements of some of my favorite MC pairings – Run-DMC, ICP, Slug and Murs, Twiztid, Chuck D and Flava Flav… not to put us at those guys’ level, but it’s been fun working with a super-talented rapper. We’re going to be performing songs from the “Digital Gangster LP” next month.

If that isn’t enough, I’m mastering my solo album with Stephen Marsh Thursday. Stephen is a great mastering engineer who mastered “The Graduate” as well as the Pharcyde, the Donnas, and Canibus. He’s amazing. The new album is called “The Gigantic Robot Kills” and, although it took me a long time due to problems with former management, it’s finally done. It’s coming out in conjunction with my label Horris Records and Jaret Reddick from Bowling for Soup’s new label “Crappy Records”, which is a new imprint under Oglio.

I’ve got three more shows with Suburban Legends, then a few college shows, then I fly to New York to rehearse with Frontalot’s band. That tour is going to be a six week odyssey across the whole United States. In February I’m headed back to Europe for the next Good to Go Tour that my friend Ed Sellers is booking. Then the plan is to go back to Australia and Japan because “TGRK” will be dropping over there.

Our friends Rich Couzzi at Rutgers and Jon Backstrom (the webmaster for the state of Iowa) have been helping me update mclars.com. My friend Scott Daniells has been helping us get our email lists together so we can keep you in the loop about everything.

See you guys on the road!!

Your friend
MC Lars

Currently watching : The Simpsons – The Complete Eleventh Season Release date: 2008-10-07

THE DIGITAL GANGSTER LP AVAILABLE NOV 1ST!!!

MC Lars

Currently watching : The Simpsons – The Complete Eleventh Season Release date: 2008-10-07

My friend Phil’s son does an amazing rendition of “Mr. Raven” in these awesome videos:

EDUCATING THE YOUNGER GENERATION!!!

Lars

Currently reading : Bottomless Belly Button By Shaw Dash

Our Ohio homie Nick did this great documentation of what it’s like to go to an MC Lars show:

Check out Nick’s band “Sumpin Difrant“, they did a track with us at our Bowling Green show with Cartel.

xo
Lars

Currently watching : American Beauty (Widescreen Edition) Release date: 2000-10-24

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=29239

Lars

Currently listening : Vulgar Display of Power By Pantera Release date: 1992-02-25

I just finished recording my new album with YTCracker, available next month. Check out the first single “Paul Is Dead”, featuring the Rondo Brothers on the beat.

This song is about conspiracy theories!!

xoxox

MC Lars and ytcracker

Currently listening : Secrets From The Future By MC Frontalot Release date: 2007-04-06

This month’s audio podcast is a live soundboard set from Tempe, AZ at the Clubhouse, where my band and I drove through to play the KOL Kon V. You can download the set here.

The show included the following songs:

1. Intro / Space Game
2. 21 Concepts / Straight Outta Stockholm
3. Mr. Raven
4. Download This Song
5. Generic Crunk Rap
6. iGeneration (featuring B-Dub)
7. Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock

Currently reading : Clumsy By Jeffrey Brown

Lars rocks out as Matt plays drums on Lars’s collaboration with Gabe Saporta of Cobra Starship and Brett Anderson of the Donnas, “Hey There Ophelia”:

Currently watching : MC Lars: This DVD Is Not Punk Rock Release date: 2007-12-19

I am redesigning my site and need the help of one very dedicated and talented html coder who can do all of the following quickly and efficiently:

I need someone who can take our graphic design layouts and cut them up and make everything into functional webpages.

I need someone who can code/figure out how to take my Myspace blog and tour dates and translate them onto our new page.

We need someone who can also code in PHP, or whatever language to keep the page password protected, and help us code and run the code forum.

Coder will get free admittance to any MC Lars show they want in the next five years and an advance copy of the new record.

Hit me up at mclarshorris@aol.com if you’re interested!!

Thank you!!!

Lars

Currently watching : The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather – Part II/ The Godfather – Part III) Release date: 2001-10-09