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MC Lars
Punk / Hip Hop / Christian





Oakland, California
United States

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Member Since8/2/2004
Band Websitehttp://www.mclars.com
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InfluencesPublic Enemy, King Missile, the Bloodhound Gang, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Sage Francis, Atmosphere, Eric B. and Rakim, Nine Inch Nails, Grand Buffet, Bob Dylan, Pantera, Wesley Willis, Ween, Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, Insane Clown Posse, MC Frontalot, ILL BILL, ytcracker, Northern State, the Dead Kennedys, the Beastie Boys
Record LabelHorris Records
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Mar 16 2010 8:00P
Talking Heads (with Zebrahead) Southampton, England
Mar 17 2010 7:00P
Islington Academy (with Zebrahead) London, England
Mar 18 2010 7:00P
Orange Box (with Zebrahead) Yeovil, England
Mar 19 2010 7:00P
Club Revolution (with Zebrahead) Peterborough, England
Mar 20 2010 8:00P
Chords (Shudder Charity Festival) Poole, England
Mar 21 2010 7:00P
Furnace (with Zebrahead) Swindon, England
Mar 22 2010 7:00P
Muni Arts Centre (with Zebrahead) Pontypridd, Wales
Mar 23 2010 7:00P
Academy 2 (with Zebrahead) Birmingham, England
Mar 24 2010 7:00P
Waterfront (with Zebrahead) Norwich, England
Mar 25 2010 7:00P
Roadmender (with Zebrahead) Northampton, England
Mar 26 2010 7:00P
Academy 3 (with Zebrahead) Manchester, England
Mar 27 2010 7:00P
Academy 2 (with Zebrahead) Newcastle, England
Mar 28 2010 7:00P
Rock City (with Zebrahead) Nottingham, England
Mar 29 2010 7:00P
Garage (with Zebrahead) Glasgow, Scottland
Mar 30 2010 7:00P
Cockpit (with Zebrahead) Leeds, England
Apr 1 2010 8:00P
The Louisiana (with K.Flay) Bristol, England
Apr 3 2010 8:00P
O2 Academy Oxford 2 (with K.Flay) Oxford, England
Apr 4 2010 8:00P
Barfly (with K.Flay) Cardiff, Wales
Apr 5 2010 8:00P
Cavern Club (with K.Flay) Exeter, England
Apr 6 2010 7:00P
Waerdse Tempel (with K.Flay & Zebrahead) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Apr 8 2010 7:00P
Chez Heinz (with Zebrahead) Hannover, Germany
Apr 9 2010 7:00P
Underground (with Zebrahead) Cologne, Germany
Apr 10 2010 1:00P
Sportzentrum (Festival) Disentis, Switzerland
Apr 11 2010 7:00P
Universum (with Zebrahead) Stuttgart, Germany
Apr 12 2010 7:00P
Schlachthof Wiesbaden (with Zebrahead) Wiesbaden, Germany
Apr 13 2010 7:00P
Exhaus (with Zebrahead) Trier, Germany
Apr 14 2010 7:00P
Club 59:1 (with Zebrahead) Munich, Germany
Apr 15 2010 7:00P
Lucerna Music Bar (with Zebrahead) Prague, Czech Republic
Apr 16 2010 8:00P
Flex Club (with Zebrahead) Vienna, Austria
Apr 17 2010 7:00P
Conrad Sohm (with Zebrahead) Dornbirn, Austria
Apr 18 2010 7:00P
Bloom Club (with Zebrehead) Mezzago, Italy (near Milan)
Apr 20 2010 7:00P
Sala Salamandra (with Zebrahead) Barcelona, Spain
Apr 21 2010 7:00P
Club Penelope (with Zebrahead) Madrid, Spain
Apr 23 2010 7:00P
Glazart (with Zebrahead) Paris, France
Apr 24 2010 10:00A
GROEZROCK! Festival Meerhout, Belgium
Apr 25 2010 7:00P
Knust (with Zebrahead) Hamburg, Germany

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"I want to be someone who people recognize and want to come to see, but stayed true to their art and message through their whole career. I want to be able to tour the world and play sold out shows. I'd love to have some mainstream exposure to subversively bring my ideas into the popular eye, as long as I don't have to compromise what I'm doing for the sake of popularity. I want to work with more artists that I admire and be known for having one of the most fun live touring shows that has ever hit the road. I'd like to die having put out one of the most original greatest hits albums in the history of the popular music. That would be awesome."

- MC Lars

Self-proclaimed originator of “post-punk laptop rap” MC Lars, whose recent hit album This Gigantic Robot Kills (out now Crappy Records/Oglio), continues to crush retail and wow critics and fans across the globe. Branded as the ideal label for a cutting edge artist like MC Lars, Oglio has made a name for itself in the past few years by releasing albums from underground legends Kool Keith and Wesley Willis. Oglio teamed up with the Texan pop-punk quartet Bowling for Soup’s front-man Jaret Reddick and novelty rockers Size 14’s Linus Dotson for their Crappy Records imprint in 2008, and have gone on to successfully promote and back MC Lars as their breakthrough artist of the year.



First week sales of This Gigantic Robot Kills quadrupled the already staggering first week sales of Lars’s previous endeavor, The Graduate. The week the album hit shelves, Lars headlined Dutch software company’s 4Worx’s first annual hip-hop festival, where Lars played to a packed crowd in Amsterdam two days after the release of Robot. The European press descended on the event, interviewing Lars on national television and in newspapers, enticing Lars to spit one of the hottest freestyles ever kicked on Amsterdam radio. Lars then went on to be featured as a breakthrough artist at MarsCon in Minneapolis a week later, rocking heads at the growing sci-fi event that highlights some of the best underground indie hip-hop acts in the world.


Lars went on to rock more faces than humanly thought possible at his March showcases at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Continuing his talks on hip-hop and postmodern culture at high schools and colleges in the spring, Lars has remained a bright light in the world of rap music, proving time and time again that the genre is more than just a vehicle for extolling “promiscuous women, blunts, 40s, and gats.” In April, Lars went on to headline his 10th UK tour, receiving incredible press for his new album, as well as garnering the “Guitar Hero Hero (Beating Guitar Hero Doesn't Make You Slash)” video high rotation on English music television and nearly selling out the entire run.


Lars’s spring This Gigantic Robot Kills US tour featured shows booked with with rap legends Nas and Ludcaris, as well as a headlining set at the prestigious Rochester Lilac Festival, playing to a sold out arena of 5,000 on a spring evening in upstate New York. A successful East Coast club run followed, where the “Teenage Dirtbag” hitmakers Wheatus joined Lars on stage in Manhattan for a rousing rendition of “True Player for Real”. Following the US mini-tour, Lars returned to Australia for the third time, selling out 300-400 capacity clubs across the country, receiving strong press and radio reaction to the Australian release of the record.


In June, Lars headlined the local stage at the Live 105 BFD festival at the Shoreline Amphitheater, playing to thousands of Bay Area fans. As a result of this, “Hipster Girl” has gone on to receive top rotation on mainstream Bay Area rock radio, while the album's title track has topped commercial radio on the East Coast, primarily in upstate New York. Such radio traction was the result of years of hard work on Lars’s behalf and his personal connections with regional DJs. Mainstream rock radio is alive and well for MC Lars, as various tracks from This Gigantic Robot have gone on to receive play across the country all year.


This summer saw Lars performing an interpretation of Stanford professor and renowned classical composer Mark Applebaum’s “Metaphysics of Notation” score and the Cantor Art Museum at Stanford University. A breakout concert in the world of experimental sound design and performance art, Lars shows that he will never stop pushing boundaries creatively. Fellow rapper K.Flay, a Bay Area hip-hop artist currently being developed by hip-hop legends Zion I, invited Lars to collaborate on an EP with her in June. The EP’s breakout title track “Single and Famous” went on to become a YouTube hit with the fans and received prime airplay on Live 105 in San Francisco, spurring more incredible sales of This Gigantic Robot Kills.


Lars headlined the Nerdapalooza festival in Florida in July, impressing the crowd and showing he still had love for a scene (nerdcore) that he had transcended commercially and artistically. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Lars signed autographs for post-punk laptop rap fans at the convention center and then headlined the first annual After-Con, a sold out after-party attended by many influential Hollywood producers and Internet taste-makers. In September, Lars completed a song for the American Heart Association, whose marketing team are currently launching a giant national campaign to teach kids about CPR, of which MC Lars will be the main figure.


Lars gears up to return to the UK with old friends Bowling for Soup, and new friends Zebrahead and the Leftovers on his second run of the This Gigantic Robot Kills UK tour. His video “True Player for Real”, made entirely from sock puppets, will debut as the iTunes single of the week on October 13th, additionally being promoted by legend “Weird Al” Yankovic on his website and to his million Twitter followers. “This Gigantic Robot Kills”, the new video and single, will hit mainstream and college radio this fall, with an ingenious green-screened video to be serviced to MTV by Oglio/Crappy.


The Agency Group is currently booking a November headlining club tour for Lars, and plans are underway for Lars to go to Moscow to headline a New Year’s show, spreading the sounds of This Gigantic Robot Kills to the nation that was once labeled our parents’ nemesis in a Cold War Apocalypse. While Russians once feared being pelted with American nuclear missiles, now they rejoice in being pelted with dope American rhymes and beats, courtesy of California’s MC Lars. Hallelujah.


Having been in the hip-hop game for almost a decade, Lars and his team have proven that an independent artist can survive comfortably in the face of a changing music industry and uncertain economy. With successful tours in nine different international markets, Lars has stayed on his grind nonstop, well aware that today's indie artist make a living through constantly playing shows and maintaining an Internet presence. On a shoestring budget, Lars has received exposure from MTV, G4, and mainstream rock radio, as well as laudatory reviews from Rolling Stone to SPIN to Alternative Press. Continuing in the punk rock and DIY footsteps of his heroes and forebearers, Lars has stayed relevant as an iconoclast misfit arbiter of pop and underground culture. It's amazing how far one can go with just a laptop and a dream.


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christian bernhardt (us) at the agency group

geoff meall (uk) at mercenary pr

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sue marcus (us) at the stunt company

emma watson (uk) at fifteen three pr

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ArRoGaNt F. bAsTaRd

Arrogant Batsard



Mar 9 2010 11:09 AM

im not a drama queen those are song lyrics just like evrything else i put as my status comments listen to more music b4 u run ur mouth have a nice day
Samm

Samm Hauke



Mar 6 2010 8:59 PM

Any plans to reunite with Grassroots?
It could only be a good time :)
Technicolor Keyla

Technicolor Keyla



Mar 4 2010 4:59 PM

Dear MC Lars,
I would miss Jersey.
I love Jersey.
It's nothing like The Jersey Shore or that horribly offensive new show on Style channel with the fake hair, fake nails, and fake boobs, I promise.
Come back to the East Coast, it misses you.
The end.

Tricia

Tricia



Mar 4 2010 4:59 PM

:)
CG RECORDS INC.

CG RECORDS INC.



Mar 2 2010 8:06 PM

thanks
Flash Fire

Flash Fire



Mar 2 2010 8:05 PM

peep it!
♣ ChrisT ♥ ♠

Christopher Teeter



Mar 1 2010 4:23 AM


 

Sock it to ya...!!!
A's socks are punk rock...@#$%
Brian Burks

Brian Burks



Mar 1 2010 4:23 AM

Hope yer selling buttloads of cd's. I remember when I pre~ordered "the graduate" you sent me a very nice comic strip. Thank you. I have it on the wall.

If you would like to check out my music on my page that would be fine. Im sure you are very excited about each new song I put up. I make me all from the comfort of my couch. IM PRETTY DAMNED GREAT. Nobody has noticed yet but Im sure in time they will. Anyways if you like my stuff be sure to sign me to your major record label so I can be rich with you and get a giant "The World Is mINE" statue to put in my mansion that you will give me as a bonus when I sell my first million 1$ downloads. Word up bitch!   
sophie...who?

Sophie KulliKauer for president



Mar 1 2010 4:23 AM

oh my fucking god. thank you!!! i just found out that you come to austria on the 16th of april with zebrahead. ... ow im so damn speechless really. thank you. im so looking foward. going to download all the songs i dont have :D and yeah please play six degrees of curt cobain. great lyrics.
huh im so excited. sorry. XD
yay, so have a nice day there!
She Calls Me Cute (ON ITUNES NOW!!!!!)

She Calls Me Cute  (ON   ITUNES   NOW!!!!!)



Mar 1 2010 4:23 AM

=]
5 Days Dirty

5 Days Dirty



Mar 1 2010 4:17 AM

 was awesome performing with you the other night, so much fun. you're a great guy, looking forward to many more!!


5DD
dRdRu

Andrew Kent



Mar 1 2010 4:17 AM

When listening to the song Nerdcore Died, I feel like an outsider eavesdropping on someone else's conversation.
alison loves tunes and freinds

alison maclean



Mar 1 2010 4:09 AM

hey mc lars mate i got the newest album today which album is na na na na na na download this song on ok c u soon
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Benji Walker



Mar 1 2010 4:09 AM

Hey Lars,

Can't wait for the 16 march... talking heads show is going to be epic.  Make sure you go down to Big George's on the corner... best chips in the city.

Catch you later

Benji @ Live and Loud
DreamReel

DreamReel



Mar 1 2010 4:07 AM

hey lars, we played with you as Hyperbole Caboose in rochester! whats going on?
Leaf Erikson

Leaf Erikson



Feb 16 2010 4:22 AM

peace to u from detroit.  u comin here this summer?  scream back when u get a minute...
Joaomalabarista

Joaomalabarista



Feb 12 2010 5:43 AM

Hello from lisboa. Thank you.
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Feb 12 2010 5:42 AM

Heavy sound! love it

bbx
The Principles

The Principles



Feb 5 2010 3:00 AM

you get some mention...here you go sexy man



Brad

Brad



Feb 5 2010 2:59 AM

I saw u guys at a bowling for soup concert at the cleveland house blues..and now i listen to u guys more then them... U guys were nice to u gave me free merch
Brad

Brad



Feb 5 2010 2:58 AM

Come back to cleveland!!!
dvnknt豊

Devin Knight



Jan 29 2010 9:15 AM

haha go metric system: http://i.imgur.com/Q9Jru.jpg
Kate the Great. (VSE CADET .051)

Kate Ward



Jan 29 2010 9:15 AM

well, it sucks that your bottom of the hill show is 18+
:( unfortunately my birthday isn't until september.
Milk Plus

Milk Plus



Jan 29 2010 9:13 AM

Hey Lars... Looking forward to your visit to London in March. Before then I'd love to promote you on my UK Nerdcore Spot: http://www.mcmilkplus.com

Let me know.....
Diamanda

Diamanda



Jan 23 2010 5:59 PM

I hope you do. My friend once saw you, I'm not sure when.
He said he was totally drunk so he doesn't remember much. I always hold it against him that he doesn't remember as I seek details. Lots of details. I guess I'll have to see for myself some time, it would be great if you do under 18 shows. Other wise I'll wait it out!
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