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The year 1984 might be remembered as the year that gave us Purple Rain and Ghostbusters, but the fictional 1984 of George Orwell’s classic 1949 novel will always loom large in the popular ...

MC Lars, a self-proclaimed “post-punk laptop rapper,” may be best-known for his fast-talking rhymes about Hot Topic stores and hipster girls, but the Bay Area musician is notably literary, and ...

Dubbed a “post-punk laptop MC,” Brooklyn musician MC Lars has almost initiated a new form of music with his fast-talking, rap-ish songs about pop culture. With his compositions of electronic beats and ...

Cerebral Oakland rapper MC Lars takes distinctly left turns with his rhymes, posing at Edgar Allen Poe and a beyond-obsessed Pokemon Go devotee and is passing through town with equally creative ...

In terms of popularity, nerdcore occupies a space somewhere between underground hip-hop and the end of the universe, according to rapper and educator Mega Ran. Nerdcore is a brand of hip-hop ...

MC Lars, the Stanford-educated rapper best known for the hit "Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock," is back with a new album, "This Gigantic Robot Kills." Mixing hip-hop beats and punk guitars with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MC Frontalot (in red) proudly displays what others would hide. Photo from New Zealand PC World. When my sister asked me to take her to see MC Frontalot, she ...

Northern California rapper MC Lars tells bits of his life story in "True Player for Real." He boasts of graduating from Stanford University, though he laments that his English degree hasn't gotten him ...

MC Lars is a laptop MC, born and raised on the Internet and a healthy dose of the classics by such legends as RUN DMC. His musical tastes are so diverse and representative of the post-millennial ...

As prolific as MC LARS is, releasing a wave of singles, EPs and remixes throughout his decade-long run, his latest full-length, This Gigantic Robot Kills, has been cooking for a healthy block of time.

When firing on all cylinders, this thing they call nerdcore is that rare musical subclass that seems to utterly defy the standard critical rubric. Trying to parse an artist like MC Lars for subtext is ...