Live from CES
Posted on January 10th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:14 pm
In as much as I’m actually posting from DivX’s booth, where I’m about to perform, literally. It’s pretty much awesome here, though Vegas is a pretty surreal place. Thankfully, I’m here with a bunch of great friends (and my girlfriend,) so it’s been pretty cool so far.
I’ll blog again after my set, which is in about 3-5 minutes now.
PS: Check DivX Stage 6 for plenty of video of everything that went down. Well, everything they were filming.
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Gig Updates
Posted on January 7th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 9:20 pm
Final flyer for the Vegas shows (CES and Beauty Bar) is up here. Meanwhile, it looks like the details have filled in for my new show at Fuel, namely the line up and price. I’d say 8 dollars is pretty good deal for a night of great Nerdcore.
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My younger fans might want to skip this one…
Posted on January 4th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:41 am
Ultraklystron feat. Nursehella & Baddd Spellah – Shoujo n’ Shonen – lyrics
Yeah, it’s a little sexually charged relative to, well, anything else I’ve ever done, so those of you out there who don’t want to hear myself and Nursehella talk about which anime characters we think are attractive, even though it’s a very playful and silly song, should just skip this. Those hoping for a return to songs with out any romantic content can take solace in the fact that there are plenty of bonus songs on Romance Language, and that Opensource Lyricist is very devoid of romance. Both releases are still filled with comedy, emo and straight-up nerdcore playa spirit (whatever that is,) and both are basically a few vocal re-records away from completion, so hopefully early 2007 will be a good time for Ultaklystron fans with songs for everyone (well, as long as they are nerds.)
Oh, and speaking of stuff my younger fans can’t enjoy, looks like I have another gig lined up at Fuel, and it’s sooner than my previous gig (January 19th.) I really hope I can do some all-ages stuff in the future though, cause I know I have a lot of fans that are under 21. For the moment though, I guess have to take the work I can get.
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“You Get Sprung” – Sir Mix-A-Lot
Posted on December 28th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 5:52 pm
I am taking this quote entirely out of context to mention that yet again, Boing Boing is showing love to Nerdcore, very specifically, the upcoming gigs in Vegas. Maybe this will never get mainstream ink, but if it keeps getting Nerd press, that maybe all it needs.
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If there is a new found spring in my step…
Posted on December 11th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:46 pm
It might have something to with Boing Boing linking the nerdcore documentary trailer. Hurrah for horrible puns and free publicity!
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We ain’t goin’ nowhere
Posted on December 8th, 2006
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 1:06 pm
We ain’t goin’ nowhere. We cannot be stopped ’cause we are Nerdcore For Life:
So yeah, the Nerdcore For Life trailer is out. Look out for me doing all the nerdy things you’d expect me to do be doing, and note that even some of my friends made the trailer (and not just nerdcore friends, like friends from Anime Kingdom friends.)
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Ease my troubles, that’s what you do.
Posted on December 7th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:23 pm
Normally stuff like getting towed because I parked in an area you apparently can’t park at between certain hours would leave me dismayed and panicked. However, with my girlfriend, it was OK. I knew I’d get through it without much in the way of a hassle because she’s smart, cool and collected in these kind of situations (well, she’s always smart, cool and collected.) Heck, because we’d parked there, we had a fun time singing MC Frontalot’s “Crime Spree” in public, (not because we noticed the parking rules, but because we were worried about feeding the meter ironically enough,) and while we waited for one of her friends to pick us up and drive us to the impound lot, we goofed around with her cellphone camera at bus stop. Besides, the place we were parking for was this awesome mall loaded with great Asian stores, including multiple anime shops and great import fashion stores. For a day that could have been miserable, it rocked instead.
In less sappy news, I’m back in Seattle, and I’m going to be putting the final touches on my CD within the week, hopefully.
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Preview Medley
Posted on November 29th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:25 am
Lots of singing, cause it’s all chorus no verse. ETA for CD hopefully this Saturday. Hopefully.
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Video of Nerdcore Renagade Show @ PS3 Best Buy Line
Posted on November 21st, 2006
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 6:14 pm
It’s hard to rap when it’s cold, but I still sold CDs. It contains 4 songs – 2 off revision, 2 off Opensource, some between set banter and some working out mix issues while rapping. At least the crowd dug it by the time all was said and done, not only buying CDs as mentioned before, but so much so they even asked me to autograph their CDs without prompting from me and they brought me two water bottles too so I could keep rapping. As such, I had fun too. Hopefully the fellow shooting the documentary about waiting in line for a PS3 will have some footage up eventually as well, because that’d be awesome.
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Podcast Promoted / Nerdcore Renagade
Posted on November 18th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 8:40 pm
first half of the headline: Anime Pulse bumps my beats as 4Kids dives into the red for the first time.
second half of the headline: 9pm Toys’R’Us, nerdcore show. might be fun.