Remember when Troy Baker (Booker from BioShock Infinite) and Courtnee Draper (Elizabeth from BioShock Infinite) dueted "Will the Circle be Unbroken" (the song FROM BioShock Infinite) LIVE...and how it was awesome?!?! Well, that was just the tip of the iceberg! Over Memorial Day weekend, hundreds of con-goers packed into a room to hear Troy Baker... Continue Reading →
BIOSHOCK INFINITE’s Troy Baker (Booker) & Courtnee Draper (Elizabeth) LIVE at MomoCon: “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” (VIDEO)
Today, hundreds of con-goers packed into a room to hear Troy Baker (Booker) talk about his voice-over acting career. What we got was a Troy Baker LIVE acoustic concert, VH1 Storytellers style. Fans were delighted when a Troy Baker panel turned into a Troy Baker concert. As an encore, he made every BioShock fan's day/week/life... Continue Reading →
Maroon 5 Frontman Adam Levine Joins Cosplay Community
If there's one name you don't generally associate with the nerd community, it's Adam Levine. Maroon 5 doesn't exactly rank high on the nerd-cred-o-meter, but it looks like they're trying to change that. Adam Levine just shared a picture of his first cosplay. It seems the Maroon 5 frontman is a fan of either Buffy the... Continue Reading →
A Music Scholar’s Take on the FROZEN Soundtrack…with GIFs!
Frozen is, without a doubt, the best thing Disney has done in years. It takes us back to the Disney films we watched as children and sang along with. The soundtrack to Frozen stands out as a work of true genius. Given that Disney has released the Sing-along version of the movie in theaters, it... Continue Reading →
Metroid: Nintendo’s Forgotten Middle Child
I have been a Nintendo loyalist for a long time. From the time I got my first Super NES in 1995, I have bought almost every system Nintendo has released (Super NES, N64, GameCube, Wii, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, & Game Boy Advance). There are many reasons I love Nintendo as much as I... Continue Reading →
Nerd-Worthy Metal: Blind Guardian
In my memory, there are very few moments that I consider to be life-changing: the day of my wedding, the births of my children, discovering role-playing games, watching the first episode of Firefly. Among them is hearing the music of Blind Guardian for the first time. A few months after it was officially announced that... Continue Reading →
The Madness! The Horror! The Halloween Party Music!
Okay, you and I both know that Halloween means parties, and parties mean music. The problem with this is that so many parties play the same music over and over again each and every year. And while that's not such a bad thing the first, oh, twenty or so times you hear a song in... Continue Reading →
There Is Adventure (and Horror) in Sound: Atlanta Radio Theatre Company
Hidden away in a tiny little southern hamlet called Atlanta, Georgia is a small group of people tirelessly plugging away at making something old new and enjoyable again. This group, the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, called ARTC from here on out, specializes in the new old style of radio entertainment, and they like to point... Continue Reading →
I Fight Dragons Puts a Nerdy Spin on Pop Rock Music
UPDATE: The new I Fight Dragons album ("The Near Future") is out & available at amzn.to/1zHZpTW (digital download - $8.99) or ifightdragons.com/store (vinyl+digital download - $23.99)! That's right: they decided to dump CD's in favor of digi-download and vinyl (see below)... ...We're abandoning the now-obsolete CD format. What's the use of a CD in [2014] anyway, besides... Continue Reading →
Reunited & It Feels So Good: Miracle Laurie (Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE) Reunites with Screen-Used Imprint Chair! Miracle & Christopher May (Uke Box Heroes) Interview
Miracle Laurie (Dollhouse) arranged to stop by for an interview and see an old friend ... the original screen-used imprint chair from Topher's office! A few years ago, Joss Whedon broke his usual mold and created the short-lived series Dollhouse. It traded the witty surreal formula of vampires and spaceships for a more serious, and more... Continue Reading →