Abel Charrow
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13 Spooky TV Themes for your Halloween Party Playlist
The Nerdoween Party Playlist is in it's fifth year, and it's growing at a frightening rate! In the past, we brought you 13 absolutely required Halloween → Read More
Watch Nerdist Music’s Comic-Con Panel, Featuring MegaRan, September Mourning and More!
What does it mean to be a "music nerd" in the year 2015? This was the question posited to our panel of special guests at Nerdist Music's first showing at → Read More
Horror Composers Discuss Their Craft at Comic-Con
"I have had the opportunity to to see some of my performances before the score was laid," said actor Douglas Tait, speaking to his experience playing the → Read More
William Shatner Brings MAN O’ WAR to Life in New Digital Comic
William Shatner is going to need new business cards. The actor-turned-musician-turned-author has entered another creative medium, premiering his latest project, → Read More
Speculation Abounds Over Potential Ellie Goulding Bond Song
Ellie Goulding posted a photo on Instagram and a common four word expression on Twitter, and now the rumor mill is burning down the internet. The woman with the → Read More
Junkie XL, Brian Tyler, Marco Beltrami Discuss Scoring for Superheroes and Franchises
In the Hilton Bayfront’s Indigo Ballroom on Thursday, the “Musical Anatomy of a Superhero” panel marked it’s third year at Comic-Con. Moderated once again by → Read More
SyFy Composers Talk the Collaborative Process at Comic-Con
SyFy showcased six of their talented composers at Comic-Con on Friday with the panel “Behind the Music: SyFy Chills & Thrills.” Tahmoh Penikett (aka Battlestar Galactica's Captain Helo) moderated, with guests Bill Brown (composer of Dominion), Jason Gallagher (Z Nation), Reinhold Heil (Helix), FM Le Sieur (Being Human), Shawn Pierce (Haven), and Chris Ridenhour (the peerless Sharknado 1-3). The… → Read More
Playlist: Celebrate the Nifty Fifty with our 50 Track-Long 4th of July Mix
E Pluribus Unum. Out of Many, One. When our forefathers included this expression on the Great Seal of the United States, they surely must have been looking → Read More
Go from Sadness to Joy with Our Moody Playlist for Pixar’s INSIDE OUT
Joy to the world! For today, Disney-Pixar's animated feature, Inside Out, sees its wide theatrical release. The new flick introduces us to the five effervescent → Read More
Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” Video Gets a Rotoscope Makeover
Maybe it's the tentacled ballerinas. Maybe it's the twerking hamburger butts. Whatever it is, something about the music video for Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" → Read More
Music Geek Track of the Day: Sia and Giorgio Moroder Give Us “Déjà Vu”
What we wouldn't give for influential electronic music producer Giorgio Moroder to be our Uber driver. The mustachioed, 75 year-old patriarch of electro-pop is → Read More
Geek Track of the Day: Cold Mailman’s “Something You Do” is a Music Video for the Vine Generation
Some may argue the proliferation of digital stimuli in our modern era is shortening our attention spans. Others would counter technology is not necessarily → Read More
Geek Track of the Day: Son Lux Rotoscope Thread and Pins for “Change is Everything”
"Change is Everything", the stuttering and pounding, operatic new track from New York-based Son Lux, was an impressive enough piece of music before it had → Read More
Music Dispatch: Action Bronson Plays a Deity in Fake Doc; Blur Releases New Track
"We want to make sure his beard and his belly keep growing," says one dedicated Action Bronson follower. It's a sentiment we all share for our hairy, heavy → Read More
Music Dispatch: John Belushi’s Widow, Dan Aykroyd Launch Record Label
If you happen to be an aspiring Delta blues man (or woman), Joliet Jake and Elwood want to help a fellow Blues Brother (or Sister) out. What started as → Read More
Interview With Funny or Die’s BEFORE YOU WERE FUNNY Team « Nerdist
Very few people are born funny. Like any craft, comedy requires years of focused practice, honing a voice and sharpening one’s skills, all the while under the looming threats of atrophy and failure. But from even the humblest humor-seed grows the mighty funny-oak.… → Read More
Music Geek Track of the Day: Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes & Neneh Cherry’s ‘He She Me’ « Nerdist
Facebook made headlines in early February for tossing out their traditional male/female user gender option and introducing a third custom option, which consisted of 58 unique categories (from “agender” to “two-spirit”), and acknowledged our increasingly complex understanding of gender identity. Not… → Read More
Music Dispatch: Death Grips Release New Radiohead-like Track, “On OG” « Nerdist
As Austin’s SXSW ratchets up, the rest of the music world takes a breather, resulting in a mercifully brief Music Dispatch today. So we will share some new tracks from Prince, Death Grips, and Beat Connection, and then we will leave… → Read More
Music Dispatch: Carrie Brownstein Interviews Kim Gordon About ‘Girl In Band’ « Nerdist
Kim Gordon, of Sonic Youth and Body/Head fame, has been plowing through the book tour circuit to promote her exciting rock memoir, Girl In Band. Earlier this month, her visit to the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco involved a Q&A with another… → Read More
Recreate The ’80s Arcade Experience With ‘Arcade Ambience’ « Nerdist
In 1996, avid gamer Andy Hofle purchased a copy of Williams Arcade Classics, a PC emulator featuring an anthology of beloved 1980’s arcade games. There was Joust, Defender I & II, Robotron: 2084, Sinistar, and … → Read More