The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has premiered my new video for “Twenty-Three” today. Spread the word!! We are collecting money for them this tour so feel free to make donations in our AFSP jar if you want to help support their awesome mission.
K.Flay worked with the Stanford Digital Language Lab again this year to find winners for this year’s contests. We watched a lot of creative videos of people rapping in a non-native language and talked about our favorites and why we liked them.
I will be playing the Casbah in San Diego on July 22nd with MC Frontalot, YTCracker and Random as part of Comic-Con this year. Come on down!
Not only does it look awesome next to your action figure collection, but our limited edition “This Gigantic Robot Kills” USB robot toy contains two gigabytes of exclusive MC Lars content! Included is every CD Lars has released to date (in high res mp3 format) as well as every podcast Lars has put out since 2006. The CDs include:
1. Radio Pet Fencing (2003)
2. The Laptop EP (2004)
3. The Graduate (2006)
4. The Digital Gangster LP (2008)
5. The Green Christmas EP (2008)
6. This Gigantic Robot Kills (2009)
7. Single and Famous (2009)
I will be on tour in America this June with mc chris doing a set with YTCracker. Dates below! Tickets on sale now. Guaranteed to be the sickest indie rap tour of the summer!!
June 1st, 2010 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon
June 2nd, 2010 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
June 3rd, 2010 – Eugene, OR – WOW Hall
June 5th, 2010 – Santa Cruz, CA – the Catalyst
June 6th, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
June 7th, 2010 – West Hollywood, CA – the Troubador
June 8th, 2010 – Santa Barbara, CA – Velvet Jones
June 15th, 2010 – Forth Worth, TX – the Aardvark
June 16th, 2010 – Austin, TX – Emo’s
June 17th, 2010 – Houston, TX – Walter’s on Washington
June 18th, 2010 – Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon
June 19th, 2010 – Birmingham, AL – BottleTree
June 20th, 2010 – Mobile, AL – Alabama Music Box
June 22nd, 2010 – Tallahassee, FL – Big Daddy’s
June 23rd, 2010 – Orland, FL – the Social
June 25th, 2010 – Atlanta, GA – the Drunken Unicorn
June 26th, 2010 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
June 27th, 2010 – Wilmington, NC – The Soapbox Landrolounge
June 29th, 2010 – West Chester, PA – The Note
June 30th, 2010 – Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s
I am writing this backstage in Prague. The tour has been incredible. We’ve been playing for new audiences, have become better friends with Zebrahead and Attack! Attack!, and have seen some amazing sights. I saw the house where Karl Marx was born, the bizarre Franz Kafka museum, the bones of the three wise men in Cologne, took a gondola to the Swiss Alps, rode bikes with K.Flay in Amsterdam and have seen some amazing Roman ruins and cathedrals.
Hip-hop is indeed universal but the crowds in mainland Europe see to respond more to the jumping punk rock energy than the breakbeat vibe. The rhythm is in them just waiting to come out and it turns out most Europeans really want to love hip-hop in a way they understand. Punk rock has helped bring that out. DJ continues to give 100% at tour managing and performing and we’ve been blessed to be joined with Zebrahead every night on our set. I’ve been singing Al Yankovic’s classic “My Bologna” every night with Attack! Attack! during their set. Joyful times.
Tomorrow we are off to Austria, then Italy, Spain, France, Belgium for the Groezrock festival with Bad Religion and AFI, and then back to Germany where I meet up with my girlfriend Maura for our European vacation together. We are going to go see my friend Mike in Berlin where he’s applying to the Max Planck University for PhD work. My friends are so amazing.
In summation, I will always love you England but it’s been nice to rock the rest of Europe.
Big high fives to everyone back home in Cali!! I’ll be ready to kick it in Oakland when I’m home in May. Working on new music and “27th Street” will resume on the daily!!
MC Lars
backstage in Prague, 4/15/10
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