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Watch "Set List" for YouTube Comedy Week

Beginning Sunday, May 19th, YouTube will be holding a seven-day comedy extravaganza, YouTube Comedy Week, featuring some of the best and brightest of internet funny-making. The Nerdist Channel is among the participants, and will be supplying premiere episodes of Set List. It’s “comedy without a net”: In each episode, comedians will be given topics via a screen behind them and will have to riff on said topic. No prep, no… more

Music Geek Track of the Week: Gita’s “Hood Rich”

All right, so this week’s track is sort of a slept-on/overlooked jam from 2012 that I recently discovered is a major “bad-bitch” anthem. SO mad that I wasn’t blasting… more

Music Geek Track of the Week: The National – “Don’t Swallow The Cap”

Over the course of their past three albums, The National have become experts in the pace and gait of weighty emotions. Ever conscious of the glacial inertia of loss, sorrow,… more

Music Geek Track Of The Week: Tyler, The Creator – “IFHY”

Tyler, the Creator is back, and he’s dressed like a doll…a very serial murder-y looking doll! “IFHY” features Tyler exuding big emotions on miniature scale, as he marches around… more
 

Music Geek Track of the Week: IYES’ “Glow”

IYES are a Brighton-based electro pop outfit comprised of Josh Christopher and Melisa Soyaslanova, who make charming, deliberate pop music. The succinctness of this description is actually a compliment. “Glow”… more

Music Geek Track of the Week: The Men’s “I Saw Her Face”

Have you ever wanted to get up from your workweek cubicle and HULK SMASH the nearest furniture or office supplies just to see how great it would feel/how weird… more

Music Geek Track of the Week: Charlie Sheen and Katheryn Winnick. Really

This month Charlie Sheen will be making his first big box office appearance since things got a little crazy for him (cocaine, hookers, #winning). Fortunately for us, film is not… more
 

The Music Geek Track of the Week – Youth Lagoon’s “Dropla”

If you’ve followed me on the Nerdist throughout the past couple of years, you know that I am huge fan of Boise indie-rocker Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon. Every… more

A Music Geek’s Top Albums of 2012

I connected a lot of dots in 2012. Well, it was more like I colored by numbers and filled in a lot of gaps that way. I have been in… more

The Music Geek Track of the Week: “Fresh Eyes”

By all accounts, I am not a morning person. According to my friends from high school, I wasn’t so much sleepy as I was just plain angry until around lunch… more