Adam WarRock – You Dare Call That Thing Human?!? – Tracklist/Pre-orders!

Adam WarRock – You Dare Call That Thing Human?!?
Release date: February 13, 2012 

Pre-order now: (link) & get 2 digital tracks immediately
And a word about buying music over at my tumblr…

TrackListing: 

1. On the Subject of Normal… (By comedian Baron Vaughn)
2. Human?!? *
3. Retcon
4. 616
5. The Kids Table f/ Doctor Awkward
6. Booster Gold f/ Mikal kHill
7. I Kill Giants
8. M.L.F. f/ Beefy, int80 of Dual Core
9. You Might Like This (interlude)
10. Sensitive Side
11. Civil War f/ Tribe One, Gary Samurai
12. Beast I.Z.
13. Snows of Kilimanjaro f/ MC Lars
14. Inhuman
15. Andrew Garfield @ SDCC (Joules Remix) – Bonus Track *

* – exclusive to CD and bandcamp releases. not available on iTunes/Amazon releases. 

PLEASE NOTE: ALL PHYSICAL CD PRE-ORDERS WILL SHIP PRIOR TO ALBUM RELEASE DATE. ALL ORDERS AFTER RELEASE DATE SHIP ON OR AFTER MARCH 1, DUE TO TRAVEL. 

Production by Vince Vandal. 

Cover Art by Mitch Gerads. 
Check out his work on Image Comics’ The Activity, as well as the legendary Comic Twart site.

Special thanks to Comedian Baron Vaughn.
Check out his amazing comedy album Raised by Cable, or his work on the USA show, Fairly Legal.

A Crazy Week [updates]

So…what did YOU do last week? I am still sort of in shell shock from how much attention that Parks & Rec EP got. If you haven’t seen all the fuss, you should probably check it out, as it got featured in The Onion’s AV Club, SPIN, Time, Buzzfeed, NYMag’s Vulture Blog, and tons more places, including a personal tweet from Jim O’Heir (who plays Jerry) and Ben Schwartz (who plays Jean Ralphio). I think a big thank you goes out to my favorite TV critic/blogger Alan Sepinwall, who was honestly one of the first TV guys to tweet about it.

As a bonus, I swapped out the old “Waka Flocka Swanson” mp3 with a better, remastered version with some better samples and levels in it. You should download it. (MP3 link). Better believe “Waka Flocka Swanson” is now part of the live set.

I also got my official invitation to showcase at the legendary SXSW music festival, March 13-18 in Austin, TX. I have no details yet, but I do know that the nerdcore showcase is going to have such illustrious names as YTCracker, The ThoughtCriminals, and MegaRan! Other than the West Coast tour with Kirby Krackle, I am going to be touring the Southeast to SXSW with MegaRan & Willie Evans Jr. in early March as well. Tour dates are listed here.

As if that wasn’t enough, my new album, You Dare Call That Thing Human?!?, is going to be featured in Diamond Comics Distributors’ Previews February 2012 catalog. This is the catalog that all comic retailers order from. Check for it in the Geek Grab Bag section, as well as the Collectibles & Novelties section. All orders will receive an exclusive Jemma Salume print poster, not available ANYWHERE else. So when you order your comics from your local shop, drop an order for my album as well! Anyone who sends me a pic of their order form will get an immediate digital download as well, since Previews solicits orders ahead of time.

New free track, and most likely the last free track I release for a while (due to the new album dropping and touring), posting tomorrow. Tracklist of the album posting this week. Get excited! February 13!!!

[updates] New Website Design – Guest Verse for Stevie D

You may have noticed that my site is looking BALLER AS HELL now. That’s all thanks to the wondrous, amazing and awesome Katie Sekelsky! Katie’s an amazing illustrator and comic artist, and you should most definitely check out all her stuff here, most notably her debut book The Time Traveler’s Pocket Guide! If you see her at any of the comic cons she’ll be at this year, please high five her for me.

I also did a guest verse for the magnanimous Stevie D of the Illbotz, along with Beefy. Go check out “Best Damn Fuckin’ Rappers In the Universe” here.

And hey, if you’re on the West Coast, most notably one of the following cities:

• Seattle, WA
• Portland, OR
• Berkeley, CA
• Los Angeles, CA
• San Diego, CA
• Las Vegas, NV
• Tempe, AZ
• Ogden, UT

Me and Kirby Krackle will be rocking out in your town in mid to late February. Come out to a show! Check out the dates.

Jane – TrackLog 101 [free tunes]

Download the track (MP3) (lyrics)
“Jane” by Adam WarRock

Beat used: “Moves Like Jagger” Maroon 5
Single cover design: Kevin Church  

A while ago, I made a song called “June” to Justin Bieber’s “Baby” beat. The whole point of that exercise was to see if I could take an obnoxiously poppy song and make a good rap song out of it. Since, it’s basically turned one of the most beloved songs that I’ve ever created. Such is the power of Bieber.

Since then, I’ve tried my damnedest to find a new pop song to replace “June” with, b/c well, “Baby” is not really still topical, and I’m kinda tired of the song. I don’t know why “Moves Like Jagger” came across my radar. For the record, I don’t think it’s necessarily a HORRIBLE song, it’s just kind of inoffensively stupid, but maybe in an enjoyable way? Who knows. I heard a good beat, and I wanted to rap over it.

I’ve had an idea to make a Jane Austen-based song for a long time. I was sitting around, talking to my friend Dave about an idea for this beat. I originally wanted the song to be pretty different, focusing on smart women and coming up with some kind of hook for the track. We both started throwing out names of smart women in history, and Jane Austen came up. And then it just turned into a track about how much I hate going to a club. It’s sort of about Jane Austen, but then, it’s sort of not. Because the idea is that if you don’t go to the clubs with everyone else, the stereotypical image is of someone sitting at home, doing something like READING *gasp*….as if. Even though….that’s…kinda what I do a lot of times.

Dave’s wife, Raina, is actually the girl on the phone at the beginning of the track. The most ironic thing is that she is a librarian who would probably never actually go to a club.

Also, I didn’t make up that refrain. It’s an homage to this. Enjoy.

• I’m going on a West Coast Tour with Kirby Krackle in February! (dates)
• I have a new album coming out Feb 13. First single’s here! (link)
• New tshirts are in the merch store! (link)

[The Tracklog is a free ongoing mixtape of rough song ideas mixtape verses, and unmastered b-sides, updated weekly.]

Adam WarRock – Fuck SOPA [free tunes]

Adam WarRock “Fuck SOPA”
(released in solidarity with the January 18 Internet-wide protest against Internet blacklist legislation) 

Download (MP3)

Educate yourself on why SOPA/PIPA, and similar bills are important to stop: Blacklist.eff.org

Lyrics: 

verse 1:

You wanna stop the internet, well you can’t
We are anonymous, legion, the right is separate from the left hand
But together we stand, on the shoulders of giants
So Fuck SOPA, my freedom of speech’s what you’re denying

As far as I can see, the copyright regime
It bred the acts of piracy that Congress tries to provide the relief from…
You turn the ISPs to mind police
As if my right to speech was less than companies to get their right to greed
Trying to keep us

From building on the only frontier still not affected
By corporate checks, from how creativity stepped in
So now a judge can make the call if you’re a felon
What the record and movie companies tell him (whatever)

With your vague legal language, that’s unconstitutional
False pretense of purpose, that’s barely any solution for
As if fake viagra was the price of our freedom
Thank god we have Big Brother as our leaders

Chorus:
Information wants to be free, FUCK SOPA
To make felons out you and me, FUCK SOPA
To strip away our freedom of speech, FUCK SOPA
C’mon and just say it with me, FUCK SOPA

verse 2:

What we have here, is a failure to communicate
The same Politicians who made their name
with viral videos that fill our screens up to election day
Now want to shut the gates down, that’s bullshit

So you can squeeze every penny out of a dying nation
So the markets of these movies and music can keep decaying
But at least no one is playing, or blogging about
The new hot shit, that no one’s talking about

The Arab Spring, to wikileaks
To Facebook, and mp3s
The internet’s the R&D for what’s further down the highway
But that’s cool, you want to choke it off and let it die
We’ll find a way around it, while you’re still checking myspace

So all take heed, and just let your voice be heard
They’re coming for the web, and we can’t simply just “be nerds”
Be activists, and stand shoulder to shoulder
Cuz we won the battle, but the war is far from over

interlude:
And I will keep streaming content, keep making mixtapes
Keep posting videos, confident we’ll find a way
Cuz in my corner, I got hackers and geeks
And I will keep rapping over the beat: FUCK SOPA

ComicsAlliance Rap Up & Martin Starr w/ Common Rotation [updates]

[ComicsAlliance Rap Up]
I’ve begun a new regular feature over at ComicsAlliance. Every two weeks, I’ll be posting up a song that wraps up the two weeks’ worth of news and comics. The first one went live over the weekend, with a beat by Mikal kHill. You should go check it out. 

[Martin Starr w/ Common Rotation - LA Stop]
I know I’m very excited to announce that Martin Starr w/ Common Rotation will be opening for me and Kirby Krackle at the Los Angeles stop on our West Coast Tour on February 21. I’m a big fan of Martin Starr, better known as Bill Haverchuck from Freaks & Geeks or Roman DeBeers from Party Down, and Common Rotation’s an active part of the Los Angeles music scene, having opened for They Might Be Giants and a number of other famous acts.

Tickets are here: The Mint
Follow Common Rotation on twitter
Follow Martin Starr on twitter

Masocore – TrackLog 99 [free tunes]

Download the track (MP3) (lyrics)
“Masocore” by Adam WarRock

Beat by Danny Baranowsky
“Meat Boy (Flesh)” Super Meat Boy Soundtrack (buy that ish)

I’ve been playing a lot of Super Meat Boy, lately. Trying to 100% that game is like letting someone continuously punch you in the nuts. For those who don’t know the terminology, Super Meat Boy is a game from the genre known as “masocore,” which, as my favorite video game website Giantbomb.com defines it: 

Through trial and error gameplay, complex game mechanics and intense difficulty, masocore games are specifically designed to frustrate players over and over again.

Or in other words, infinite nut punches.

I had the pleasure of meeting a certain Mr. Danny Baranowsky at my Scottsdale, AZ show last October. It was hilarious, because he was being introduced to me, and when MegaRan informed me he was the guy who did the soundtrack to Super Meat Boy, I basically geeked the hell out at him. Probably scared him. I love that soundtrack, and you should buy it and listen to the hell out of it.

So I rapped on one of his dope ass tracks.

UPDATES: 

• I’m going on a West Coast Tour with Kirby Krackle in February! (dates)
• I have a new album coming out Feb 13. First single’s here! (link)
• New tshirts are in the merch store! (link)

[The Tracklog is a free ongoing mixtape of rough song ideas mixtape verses, and unmastered b-sides, updated weekly.]