The MC Lars Podcast

Back in 2000, Atom & His Package changed my view of what punk rock could be. Mixing comedy, humor, intelligence, catchy pop choruses, punk and a QY700 sequencer, Atom Goren started performing and tou...

16 Feb 20191h 38min

Back in 2008, Timothy Crist (a.k.a. ShoEboX, a.k.a. Worm Quartet) and I collaborated on an Atom & His Package cover for my "This Gigantic Robot Kills" album. This week, Crist and I talk about his wor...

11 Feb 20191h 16min

When I was in seventh grade, Sam Salerno bought me Rush's "Test for Echo" on CD, and it changed my life. He showed how literature (in this case, Ayn Rand) could be translated to music, and this was d...

4 Feb 20191h 17min

Boy Pierce got his start as a mashup artist, before going on to create viral rap tributes to Nick Foles, Phish, Family Matters and AOL. This week, we talk about our respecitve experiences as fans of ...

28 Jan 201953min

Without D Lyrical, there would have been no ICP. On this episode, I talk to Detroit rap legend Dale Miettinen Jr., a.k.a. D Lyrical! We connected online when I started my Hatchet Chat series and revie...

21 Jan 20191h 13min

I found out about Marcelo Vignali's work after seeing his skecthes for the Roger Rabbit ride at Disneyland, and reached out to him diretly to see if he would be interested in letting me interview him....

14 Jan 20191h 22min

Quelle Chris got his start in Detroit in 1996 as part of the Wasted Youth Collective. After meeting Proof, Quelle was determined to push his lyrical boundaries to surprise his mentor. A fan of ICP a...

7 Jan 20191h 39min

I connected with George Watsky in 2012 on Twitter when we both realized we were mutual fans of each other's work. Being from the Bay and growing up with a librarian mother as well, he and I collabora...

31 Des 20181h 10min