E-gads man! So much has been happening over here lately I don’t know where to begin! I suppose the best place to start is with news that With Sprinkles will be available for pre-sale any day now! It’s taken almost two years, but I finally have a new album’s worth of material for you to hopefully enjoy. In anticipation for With Sprinkles I have done two things.

1) Made a video single for “Geek Out”

Track number 5 on the album; number 1 in your hearts. The beat was produced by Mustin, who himself has just put out one hell of a youtube vid. It took me a really long time to record this track because it was so layered and there we’re a lot of little bits that needed to be recorded. Combine that with that fact that I’m extremely lazy and you get a better picture as to why it’s taken 2 years to get the album out.

2) Rolling Doubles is on sale for $5

By now, most of you have picked up your copy of Rolling Doubles through Amazon, iTunes, at a show, or via bit torrents, but in case you were left in the dust and want to catch up with this whole nerdcore thing you’ve been hearing so much about, now is your chance. At Bandcamp you can download high quality digital files and you can stream preview each track. But the whole thing is only $5. It would be silly to pass on these savings!

As excited as I am for the new album to drop, I am equally as excited about albums that have just dropped from some friends of mine. Ok… I am possibly more excited for my own album, but that’s only because I’m self-centered and selfish.

E For Everyone is the latest from Seattle’s own Kirby Krackle. For the unaware, they do nerd rock a la Shael Riley or Jonathan Coulton but with more pop and more references to the Fantastic Four. This is album first and foremost for comic book nerds, with tracks like “Ring Capacity”, “On and On”, “Can I Watch You”, and “Great Lakes Avengers” making me want to run to my long box and remember the good times. KK also reps for the gamers, with fantastic opening track “Vault 101″ tackling the hardships of Fallout 3 and “Take it From Me” showing love to Capcom’s favorite blue robot boy. There were only two tracks on the album I wasn’t in love with: “Secret Identity” and “Dusty Cartridges and Long Boxes” because they come off as too happy and too silly respectively. I can get behind the kind of silly involved with having Uatu come onto me via funk song, but not the kind of silliness involved in track 10. Lastly, my very favorite tracks are “Henchmen” (if they say they weren’t partly inspired by The Venture Brothers I will call them liars to their face!) and “Going Home” (which may be the best –and only– con-song I’ve ever heard). The album is $10 plus shipping and the boys are where all the good comic action is. So if there’s a comic convention near you make sure you check out my boys in Kirby Krackle.

On a personal note, I must also mention that currently my biggest regret is being a lazy ass and not jumping on the opportunity to be featured on the track “Roll Over.” Don’t get me wrong, GMK The Great did a fantastic and entertaining job and should be congratulated for putting in a great performance, but it should have been me! Maybe next time lol

The other new CD in my car holds the work of Dr. Awkward with his new release Unlimited. I screwed up when burning my disk, so the first track on my copy is “Timid”, which I’m ok with since I think the best of this album is at the end and beginning in my opinion. I love Doc Awk’s flow and performance on each and every track. My favs include “DualShAwks” (even though it references the old and horrible Dane Cook, I feel Awk is making it his own) [I'm a goddamn idiot and I confused my lewd hand signs. I knew Doc was better than that. Stupid, fat Beefy!], “Fireflies”, and the title track “Unlimited.” Doc likes to rap about females… a lot. I found that my only real issue with the album was that I wanted some more varied content. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve written a billion songs about girls and I think it’s an extremely valid topic for discussion in any musical form, but after “Red Queen”, “Catch”, “Be My”, and “Otaku Girl” I found myself hitting the skip button around round 3. This is only Dr. Awkward’s second album and he’s still exploring the space of his own creativity. Invest now. That way you can be one of the cool kids in the future saying “Pffft.. man I liked Doc Awk before he was all mainstream and being talked about on Beefy’s blog and shit.” The very best part about the album is that it’s FREE. For reals. 100% download-that-shit-right-now free! Tell ‘em Beefy sent ya and it’ll drop 60%. Saving you a cool $0. You are welcome.

Also, this just in, I’m opening up for Billy the Fridge and MC Frontalot at The High Dive this Saturday! Better start doing my rap stretches! $8 Advanced/$10 at the door. 21+. Action getting started around 9. I will be drunk around 10. <3

-beef