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I think MC chris has it right http://mcchris.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mc_chris

Yup that's why MC Chris, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, and the whole Adult Swim / Stone's Throw "Chrome Children" Tour have canceled their international engagements. Oh, whoops... no they didn't.

like mc chris
http://www.mcchris.com

or rappy mcrapperson
http://www.rappymcrapperson.com

The funny thing is, Al is exactly the kind of (relatively speaking) non-mainstream artist who would have the chance to do great via the non-traditional route of the Internet, avoiding a major label altogether. I know that as of today he's got more money than MC Chris or MC Frontalot but then again, he's been at this for almost 30 years.

And for any Star Wars geeks who like hip-hop, I recommend "Yellow Lasers" by Frontalot and (best song EVAR!!!11one) "Fett's Vette" by Chris.

I've got ten bucks that says we see Fett before season 1 is over.

Yup. That episode's plot summary is here.

(Enticed? Hear it here.)

Identifying the good songs is pretty easy these days if you use a little organization and seperate your stuff into different folders and use the right tools:

Folder 1) downloads: P2P clients, web site downloads, etc go here.

Folder 2) unzipped: where I unzip/unrar/unarchive files from folder 1. This is especially useful as I use Emule and usually just download entire albums/discographies (this seems to really cut down on falsely/poorly titled tracks and polluted files.)

Folder 3) tagged. I run MusicBrainz Tagger on the unzipped files and put them into this directory. The nice thing about MBTagger is that now all my files are consitantly sorted by band name and album name, and most of the relevant ID3 info is generally inserted. It does a really good job of automatically labeling most of my music. Then I go through the stuff that isn't automatically tagged and decide if it's worth giving the extra effort.

Within the tagged folder, I then look for subfolders which were obviously not the songs I intended to download (Generally this is just stray artists.) This usually means A)I downloaded something that was mislabeled or B)MBTagger got it wrong. These files usually get deleted as I don't care enough to put in the extra effort just to get a complete collection, unless it is actually a song I was really looking for.

Now, MusicBrainz does a fairly thorough job with western pop music and even modern indie, but is often quite lacking when it comes to tagging jazz, classical, and some ethnic musics (and of course the more obscure, the harder of a time it has.) If that is your cup of tea, you'll probably just have to do your stuff manually. That just is not the userbase of the software, so the database will not be as complete or thoroughly tested. This would probably be true of any similar software. Although the more independant low-profile stuff seems to be a lot more documented, meaning either A)consumers of pop-culture have no respect for music or B)indie fans are in it to impress people with their catalog, not for the music.

After all this, I finally just move everything over to my main media library, and go through the task of picking through duplicates. I just do a find on anything with the pattern (1) in the file name as incrementing copies are given that designation by MusicBrainz. I choose which one I want to keep manually in Windows Explorer, generally keeping the higher sampled quality version.

And finally, as I find files which are still messed up in some way (incomplete, taken from an obviously scratched CD, etc) I get rid of them, and decide whether or not to find a fresh copy.

This method generally seems to work pretty well, and is pretty much the only way I've been able to keep my music collection in any semblance of order (It was fairly manageable in the 1000 track range, but now I have over a month's worth of music (that's I could keep playing for a month, not I've been downloading for a month.)) And then when I find a band I really like, I'll try to go to their show if they come around, or buy a CD or other merchandise.

However it seems alot more likely for me to purchase a band's stuff if I can download music right from their website (Examples include Harvey Danger, Mellowdrone, McChris even though I don't know if they all still have their music for free download, Tortured Soul) than if I download it P2P. Although I have found some great music through P2P that I Probably would not have given a chance otherwise: Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Tindersticks, Tosca, Portishead, Stereolab, Zero 7, Rasputina, Cat Power, Shivaree, Modest Mouse, Ugly Casinova, and rediscovered bands that I forgot that I really like: They Might Be Giants, Violent Femmes, Dead Milkmen... unfortunately it has become a lot more difficult to

Those cats are wack. Only MC Frontalot is a real MC.

Try:
Meter Versus Yard, Old Scratch, Nerd X, MC Chris, Dr. Octagon, 5-Headed Retard, Governor Bolts, Buck 65, Commodore 64, MC Hawking and more for sometimes geek-related stuff that's actually listenable.

check this out http://www.mcchris.com/ This MC is original and comical and if you watch Adult Swim you might recognize him.

Shameless self promotion from a long time lurker - Introducing The Sensitivity Boosters http://www.sensitivityboosters.com/

More on topic, we had the pleasure of opening for MC Chris earlier this year, and that man has got to be the poster child for this genre. http://www.mcchris.com/

He did "Fett's Vette." http://www.mcchris.com/

I know where you're coming from, it's very easy to be "in" the loop on one story, and then "out" on another. http://www.mcchris.com/ is his website, if you're interested. I heard about mc chris from Penny Arcade (in a round-about way). Personally, I could take him or leave him, but you should definitely checkout Fett's Vette. It'd be worth your time just to listen to it once.

But record companies were still needed, he said, because "no unsigned band has been broken by the internet," he said. "Bands are screaming in space on the internet." Its really only a matter of time. And while no artist has become a "superstar" online yet, there are some artists who have built some rather large fanbases (see Mc Chris

Why did my playlist happen to start playing MC Chris - Fett's 'Vette as I began reading that article?

I'm sure I'd use mine on
MC Chris.

On a whim I thought I would check out MC Chris and try and find any music
samples I could listen too. I found
one and I have to say that
is the worst thing my ears have ever heard. Did I mention I work weekends
at a karaoke bar? We have regulars that think they're going to be
discovered there, and this guy sounds about 10 times worse.

I'm sure I'd use mine on
MC Chris.

On a whim I thought I would check out MC Chris and try and find any music
samples I could listen too. I found
one and I have to say that
is the worst thing my ears have ever heard. Did I mention I work weekends
at a karaoke bar? We have regulars that think they're going to be
discovered there, and this guy sounds about 10 times worse.

Here's some awesome FREE music that may help you decide to get off your ass and do some anti-RIAA bounty hunting:

MC Chris - Fett's Vette (lyrics)

MC Chris, you rock! Sorry if you get slashdotted... ^_^

Here's some awesome FREE music that may help you decide to get off your ass and do some anti-RIAA bounty hunting:

MC Chris - Fett's Vette (lyrics)

MC Chris, you rock! Sorry if you get slashdotted... ^_^

No, it's "Knowing is half the hassle."

MC Chris In Tha House!

• fake songs
  
• misnamed /misattributed songs
  
• cooked mp3s
  
• incomplete mp3s
  
• low bitrate / re-encoded mp3s
  
• radio edits
  
• people who don't want to share
  
• people who misreport their connection speed
  
• leeches pulling down your bandwidth
  
• RIAA clowns trying to squeeze your tits.
  

Oh yeah?

Well I'm so indie my shirt don't fit. :P

If you haven't already (since that KOMPRESSOR line is in a song with MC Frontalot) checkout
MC Chris and MC Frontalot (same guy, two names).

Not only does it rock, so does it's music. Check out McChris's web site.