The MC Lars Podcast

Parry Gripp and I talk about his early years, his love of RUSH, what it was like touring with Weezer while they supported "Pinkerton" and how he created the "nerdcore" musical subgenre in the mid-90s....

15 Huhti 20191h 28min

On today's podcast, I sat down with Greg Carlisle, a theater professor at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky. I was playing a show in Lexington, so I rented a car and came to visit him. ...

8 Huhti 20191h 32min

Lisette Rimer went through something that no mother should have to, the loss of her son Patrick Wood to suicide in 2006. In trying to figure out why someone so brilliant and succesful would take his ...

1 Huhti 20191h 55min

In 1982, programmer Howard Scott Warshaw had five weeks to create an Atari 2600 game based on Spielberg's hit movie "E.T.", and he was up for the challenge. According to urban legend, when fans found...

25 Maalis 20191h 37min

Twenty years ago, Sean Donnelly and I were both teenage artists attending Stevenson high school in Pebble Beach, California. He was a year older than me and always inspired me to be creative and do m...

18 Maalis 20191h 25min

MC Hawking (Ken Lawrence) and I met online over ten years ago when I posted my misgivings with nerdcore's problematic potential racist overtones. We performed together in and around Boston for the fo...

11 Maalis 20191h 23min

Louis Logic once rapped as part of the Demigodz and was a protégé of Vinnie Paz from Jedi Mind Tricks. This week, we talk about his childhood on Long Island, the beginnings of his career as a Philade...

4 Maalis 20191h 40min

I met Vinnie Caruana when I Am the Avalanche, Plain White T's and I played a show at Rutgers in 2007. We kept in touch over the years and crossed paths again at the VANS Warped Tour in 2013. On toda...

25 Helmi 20191h 26min