Ultra Magnus & DJ SLAM!

Last year, I talked to a couple of musicians about their favorite Christmas music, and that got me thinking that I should do the same thing with Halloween music. And so as I interviewed several guests this year, I started off by asking them just two Read More

In this episode of the Fandomania: Geek Music podcast, I talk to Ultra Magnus and DJ SLAM!. In the interview, we talked about skeet shooting, colored vinyl, the Toronto Raptors, scratching, and black face in 2016. It was so completely ridiculous, I Read More

This month we get a couple of EPs from podcast guests, more Pokémon Go and Stranger Things, and some other tributes as well. Read More

For part one of this month’s slate of new releases, I’m featuring a preview of an upcoming peer reviewed rap album, an artist that is completely new to me, and an album that probably isn’t nerdcore but also sorta could be. Expect more in part two soon! Read More

Well, geez, it seems that it’s time for yet another list of cool music videos. Featuring some familiar voices plus some new ones, they run the gamut from former presidents to gay cows to Canadian cuisine. Yeah, when I put it that way, it does sound Read More

It seems to me wholly appropriate that the MC known as Ultra Magnus shares a name with one of the Transformers (a fact brought home with various bits of dialogue sprinkled throughout the album and the track “Autobot Anthem”). His rap style can transform Read More

A new year, a new set of music videos. For this list, I’ve included a farewell to a band that had all too brief a life, Claire and the Potatoes, who played their last show on Nov. 12, 2014 (fortunately, however, the show was recorded and can be found on Read More