Adam WarRock “WIZZYWIG” Single
1. WIZZYWIG (Original) – free download
2. WIZZYWIG (Remix) feat. int80 of Dual Core, Mikal kHill
3. Steve Wiebe
(Tracks 1, 2 produced by Mikal kHill, Track 3 produced by Joules; cover art by Ed Piskor)
Me and Mikal kHill were lucky enough to work with Top Shelf Comics & Ed Piskor (American Splender, Hip Hop Family Tree) to help get word out about his upcoming book WIZZYWIG. Ed’s created a graphic novel gathered from the stories of the most infamous real-life hackers. The first track was featured in this video trailer for the comic, which was featured on BoingBoing and other sites:
We did a little remix w/ int80 of Dual Core, and kHill hopped on the vox. Then I put a b-side I did with Joules after SXSW. The original “WIZZYWIG” song featured in the trailer is free for download, the other songs can be purchased individually, or the all 3 tracks can be had for $2.
Adam WarRock “At Greendale” (MP3 | Lyrics) Beat used: “Good Ol’ Fashioned Nightmare” Matt & Kim
In celebration of Community’s renewal and the season finale tonight, I made you this song. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you to Dan Harmon and the cast of Community for making one of my favorite TV shows, and for doing commentary tracks on every episode on the DVD. I travel with them and listen to them in hotels a lot.
Note: I recorded this in a hotel room while on tour, with a not-so-awesome mic, so excuse if the mastering isn’t perfect
I’m on the road now, so just a blast of news updates. FIRST, scheduled a last minute booking for Friday, May 18 in Brooklyn, NY at Grand Victory 245 Grand St. It is with the homies Schaffer the Darklord and Mikal kHill, and I promise, this show will not disappoint. RSVP and info here (link).
[Top 100 Geeks You Should Be Following on Twitter - WIRED.com]
Wired.com’s GeekDad blog named me one of the top 100 geeks to follow on twitter, along with friends like MC Lars, Marian Call, MC Frontalot, and tons more! Check out the list (link)
[Interview with Hipster, Please!]
I did an interview with Hipster Please a little earlier in the year. Z. is one of my favorite long-form interviewers, so if you want to read about how my newest album came out about, you should check it out (link).
[Neo-Tokyo and Akira Guest Blog]
Thanks to everyone who downloaded the Neo-Tokyo EP this week, which you can still get here. I wrote a guest blog for You Offend Me You Offend My Family, talking about why I did an album based on the anime film, Akira, and a bit about the end of the world. It’s more funny than that, though (link).
Finally, my friend and associate, Mikal kHill, released a new single to fund-raise for replacing his busted computer and other general expenses. This is mildly important, as he’s the guy I’m doing The Slytherin Mixtape with, and he makes the beats and produces it, which necessitates a computer. But you can also read what friend Jesse Dangerously wrote about Mikal and this song on his tumblr (link). Anyway, the single is below, and you can donate what you want:
Click the cover art above to watch the first video, or purchase the album. Or go here to buy it directly. Special thanks to DicepticoN for the production, and Kevin Church for the cover and webpage design.
Adam WarRock “Sex Bob-Omb” (MP3) Beat used: “Sex Bob-Omb” by Sex Bob-Omb – remixed by Joules
What’s this? Two free tracks in one week? Hasn’t happened in a while. I had Joules remix the “Sex Bob-Omb” song from the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack as a set opener, and I performed it with aplomb at SXSW and at most tour spots. People have been asking me for an MP3 download, so I recorded it and made you this nice video! Because I was bored!
It’s really impossible to fully describe how much affection I have for Scott Pilgrim, both the graphic novels and the film. Even more completely stoked that Oni has announced the full-color hardcovers that are coming out, starting later this year!! AHHHHH ZOMG WHAT?
You should pre-order it, and while you’re at it buy the movie, and the soundtrack, and AHHH ZOMG SO AWESOME. Anyway, thanks to Bryan Lee O’Malley and Edgar Wright for such awesome things. That’s probably all the new free music you’ll get from me for a while, but remember!
Beat: Jadakiss “Without You”
Single cover designed by Kevin Church
I always wondered why bad guys in Disney Movies went after the Belles or whatever. If I was a bad guy, you’d think I’d just get with one of those villainesses. Is that a word? I’ve always thought Maleficent was pretty hot, and I don’t know what that says about me.
TWO DAYS LEFT!! To get older tshirt designs (while sizes last) at the merch store for $8-$10 per shirt. Go check it out.
May 12 – EGA w/ Soup or Villainz – Indianapolis, IN (info)
May 14 – Ruby Tuesday w/ Soup Or Villainz, MC Cool Whip – Columbus, OH (inf0)
May 16 – Pittsburgh Comics – Pittsburgh, PA (info)
May 19 – Super Art Fight Charity Show! – Baltimore, MD (info)
May 25 – The Milestone w/ Mikal kHill, Tribe One – Charlotte, NC
July 9 – Littlefield’s w/ Michael Kupperman and Guests TBA – NYC
Adam WarRock “When the Winter Comes” (MP3 |Lyrics)
Beat: Block McCloud “Crazy Man (Straitjacket Remix)”
Single cover designed by Chris Haley
As seen on:
I finally watched ALL OF Game of Thrones this past weekend, after getting countless emails from people saying “Hey, why don’t you do a Game of Thrones track?” or “Why not a Game of Thrones rap?” or “Hey, why are you so stupid, do a Game of Thrones song.” It’s not that I had anything against the show, I just hadn’t gotten around to it. It took Curt Franklin talking about it incessantly, and Chris Haley actually putting DVDs in my hands for me to finally sit down and watch it. And guess what? It was awesome! I mean, obviously.
So here’s the song everyone wanted. So stop emailing me about it.
I’ve got a massive sale on old tshirt designs (while sizes last) at the merch store. $8-$10 per shirt. Go check it out.
Or hey, buy some music! I’ll have a new EP coming out 5.14.12. More on that soon, but it’s going to be $5 for 7 tracks, and takes aim at a pretty huge, historic geek property.
Live Shows
May 12 – EGA w/ Soup or Villainz – Indianapolis, IN (info)
May 14 – Ruby Tuesday w/ Soup Or Villainz, MC Cool Whip – Columbus, OH (inf0)
May 16 – Pittsburgh Comics – Pittsburgh, PA (info)
May 19 – Super Art Fight Charity Show! – Baltimore, MD (info)
May 25 – The Milestone w/ Mikal kHill, Tribe One – Charlotte, NC
July 9 – Littlefield’s w/ Michael Kupperman and Guests TBA – NYC
To say I’m busy would be an understatement. I’m hoping to be able to have a new EP out for sale in mid-May, as well as tons of new free music. I’ll also have a new album out called NOIR sometime in the late fall, that I’m plugging away on. Announcements on those are comin’…
In the meantime, I’m going to be performing at a bunch of places. So check the tour page.
As for the Slytherin Mixtape, we’re going to have to push back the release date. I’ll make a more formal announcement about that probably next week, but kHill’s computer died on him, and he was without a computer for the weeks I was home, able to get a ton of stuff finished. He’ll be back up and running soon, but without his computer and all the fixin’s, we can’t really make songs like we usually do.
In the meantime, check out the merch store, where I am doing a huge spring/summer sale. All older design tshirts are $8-10 each!
It’s been a while since I talked about what I do here, in between songs about racism, TV, and cartoons. So I figured it was as good a time as any to make a song about it.
I can’t remember where it was, but I once read that someone called me the “Rap Chuck Klosterman.” I take that as a pretty big compliment, so I made a song about that. I remember when I first read Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs [1]. I must’ve read that book at least 10 times, and in some strange ways, the book’s spirit and manifesto aesthetic has informed a lot about what I do now.
There’s this idea in society that we aren’t allowed to hold “low brow” elements of media as important and meaningful. I run into that conflict a lot when people find out that I basically rap about pop culture, along with a certain sense of thinking I do shit like that to troll for hits. Let’s be honest, I’m a creature of the web, and so yeah, I need things that people are going to actually give a shit about [2]. So there will always be a certain element of that in my songs. But I make tracks about things I genuinely am a fan of, things I am enthusiastic about. I didn’t like The Hunger Games movie [3], so I didn’t make a Hunger Games song. I have never watched Game of Thrones [4], so no GOT rap (even though I get more emails about that than anything). I love Parks & Rec, Mass Effect, Justified, etc. etc. Music is my celebration of things I not only love, but also are important to me.
One of the things that I took away from reading Klosterman’s writing was that you can be well-informed about foreign cinema and literature and foreign policy [5] and all the kind of things that we view as “high brow culture,” while also holding up these elements of pop culture as truly meaningful and important, personal and powerful. You can pull emotion and meaning out of sitcoms and comics, and I try to do that every time I make something. When me and kHill made The Browncoats Mixtape about Firefy, we ran into so many people thinking we were making weird filk-fan shit. And as people started to listen to it, they discovered it was way more than that, because the show actually has all of that emotion and meaning in it. I love that people still discover the mixtape, and find out it’s more than what they thought it was. We are really proud of that.
I make music about pop culture, geek culture, or whatever you want to call it. I aim this rap laser [6] at whatever I care about, and in the end, I hope the songs that come out are not only shake-your-ass-bob-ya-yead-dope, but also at least a tiny bit more, for some reason or another. That’s what I try to do every time I make a song.
So anyway, that’s what I do around here. And oh, to those people who complain that I give away too much free music: eat my shorts.
And if Chuck Klosterman finds this page thru the magics of the Internet and enjoys this song, believe me, it would mean the world to me. But if no one ever found any of these songs, I’d still make them. It’s just what I do, hits or no hits.
Enjoy. Done with my two and a half months of travel, I have 3 weeks off. Time to make the rap donuts.
[1] Almost 8 years ago, which both seems like incredibly long ago, but also just yesterday that Klosterman first burst onto the scene. If you don’t read him at Grantland, you are missing out.
[2] One could argue that no one except a very tiny population truly cares about Peter David 1990s X-Factor, so y’know, I don’t think getting accused for trolling for hits is always fair. I mean, c’mon, I doubt anyone except Sean, a friend of Curt, Chris and mine in Memphis, really cares about Havok as much as I do.
[3] Never read the books, didn’t know what the movie was about. I thought the movie was bad, I’m sorry.
[4] Nothing against GOT, I just missed the train, and now it seems like SO MUCH TO GET BACK INTO. Also I’m not really a swords and sorcery dude.
[5] And I mean, this coming from someone who loves, what are those things called, books? I mean, I love a lot of “high brow” stuff too, but I don’t think anyone really wants to hear me rap about tax reform or Melville. I mean, maybe they would, but it’s not nearly as fun to make rap songs about them.
[6] Make a note, self. “Rap Laser.” Good song title.
May 12 – EGA w/ Soup or Villainz – Indianapolis, IN (info)
May 14 – Ruby Tuesday w/ Soup Or Villainz, MC Cool Whip – Columbus, OH (inf0)
May 16 – Pittsburgh Comics – Pittsburgh, PA (info)
May 19 – Super Art Fight Charity Show! – Baltimore, MD (info)
May 25 – The Milestone w/ Mikal kHill, Tribe One – Charlotte, NC
July 9 – Littlefield’s w/ Michael Kupperman and Guests TBA – NYC
Pop culture hip hop about the things you love. Comics, TV, movies, video games, or whatever I feel like making music about. Creator of The Browncoats Mixtape, Parks & Rec EP, that Downton Abbey rap song, and other things you may have heard of. Reader's Digest once linked to me.
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