Author Archives: Chad Walker

Last year, Marian Call’s double album Something Fierce was one of my favorites of the year. This year, in an effort to get more mainstream attention (NPR, Paste Magazine, etc.), she is rereleasing the album on November 13. For my part, given that I Read More

This year’s list features more Cthulhu than in the past. I was inspired by the fact that my students are actually reading an H.P. Lovecraft story, “The Outsider,” right now. Yes, I’m totally trying to drive my students crazy. Read More

I’ve only mentioned Kim Boekbinder in passing a couple of times before, but I really enjoy her music. This new album will feature songs about and / or inspired by science and space. The first single, in fact, uses images from NASA processed into sound Read More

I’ve mentioned Marc with a C plenty of times in this column, including putting last year’s Motherf***ers Be Bullsh***in’ on my Best of 2011 list. Clearly I’m a big fan. So I’m really particularly excited to find that he’s crowdfunding a new album that Read More

Well, geez, it seems it’s that time again. The new releases have been piling up again, and it’s time to promote a bunch of cool stuff at once. It seems every time I think I have a handle on the new release someone either sends me something new or I run Read More

Firefly had its television premiere on September 20, 2002. It’s been 10 years. Wow. Let’s celebrate with some music! Read More

It’s time once again to present several geeky covers of songs. There’s some really old stuff as well as some very new stuff in this set. As always, it’s all good stuff (although some may be NSFW)! Read More

Sweet Fever is a web series about candy, pillow fighting, and violence. Sweet Fever needs to save her candy store so she decides to join the Pillow Fighting Federation, which unfortunately doesn't have room for newbies. But if Fever will do the PFF Read More

Quite a while ago, I featured a list of songs about nerd girls. It seems appropriate to revisit the topic. This list does feature more specific types of geek girl than the previous list, but like the last there’s a wide variety of music and lyrical content. Read More

I’ve recently rediscovered Warp 11, a punk rock Star Trek band, because of their recent collaboration with Sci-Fried. Their songs touch on pretty much everything Trek-related, from Federation to Klingons to Vulcans and everywhere in between. Read More

After my epic, four part recap of Nerdapalooza 2012, I’ll try to keep this report on the shorter side. Once Nerdapalooza was over, there was still a bit more geek music to come. Monday night brought us The Day After concert at The Haven. A few artists Read More

Sunday at Nerdapalooza finished off with Beebs and Her Money Makers, YTCracker, Random, Koo Koo Kanga Roo, The Protomen, and more! Read More