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MC Frontalot, popularizer of nerdcore rap about buggy software, spoilers, and math, has just released a new CD called Solved. It goes without saying that we love it — Frontalot is a permanent part of the io9 soundtrack (he even played at our party a couple of years ago at South By Southwest with great aplomb and panache). With songs like "Invasion of the Not Quite Dead" and "Nerd Versus Jock," you know this CD is going to give you earworms. More »
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MC Frontalot's song "Spoiler Alert" is all about giving away the plot to your favorite movies (and real life), so it's hilarious that the song's brilliant video is spoiler-proof. There's no way to explain this story of bears with jetpacks. More »
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Nerdcore's annual geek-themed calendar is back, and this year's calendar girls are baring all in horror-themed spreads. Check out a few of the sexy send-ups of monsters and scary movies. More »
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I am totally in love with this band Goblin Cock, whose entire goal in life is to sing about geeky topics in a register that can only be described as Spinal Tappian. This video from their song "Stumped" contains every possible great thing: druids, comic book stores, women's softball, robots, and street fights. I guess you could call this the other side of nerdcore — the side that's all about rock and roll, man. The side that has its roots in the darkest of the dark geek arts: filk music. More »
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Comics anthology Meathus has been showcasing a slew of talented artists for the past eight years, under the Nerdcore banner. The newest edition, Meathaus S.O.S. comes out this May, and features art from superstars like James Jean, Farel Dalrymple, Brandon Graham, Tomer and Asaf Hanuka, Thomas Herpich, Jim Rugg, Corey Lewis, Matt Furie, D-pi, Ross Campbell, Sheldon Vella and Dave Kiersh. Publisher Jon Gibson was nice enough to pull sixteen of the scifi related pages from the book for us to show off exclusively, and you can check them out inside. More »
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Totally Nerdcore provided a geeky calendar for 2007 that featured naked women playing old school video games, and marked crucial dates like the day HAL 9000 was switched on. Now the 2008 sequel is out, featuring a slew of superpowered nude women. Check out some NSFW images from both calendars after the jump. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=347585&view=rss&microfeed=true Sure the nerdcore craze is totally hip, with guys like MC Frontalot and MC Hawking drawing in crowds of dozens with their geeksta raps about particle physics. But they're just selling out the real scifi music underground, which includes hidden classics like the Portal Song, above, written by Popular Science magazine's resident composer and included in the closing credits of cult video game Portal. Plus, nerdcore bands are just johnnies-come-lately in the true scifi music tradition. More »
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