MUSIC INDUSTRY RESUME…
PERFORMERS NAME: MC LARS
REAL NAME: Andrew R. Nielsen
DATE OF BIRTH: 10/6/82

CURRENT MOOD: Fresh

URBAN PH(as in phat)D (nwa or utfo?):
Stanford Undergraduate English B.A. degree in progress, with KRS-One and Public Enemy minors.

LEAST ACCURATELY LABELED MEDIA STEREOTYPE:
“MC Lars as a trailer-trash b-boy”. I am the antithesis and proud of it.

STREET CRED:
Bowling for Soup, American Hi-Fi and the Riddlin’ Kids. I love “Weird Al” Yankovic and would love to tour with him one day.

SHORT ANSWER SECTION:
• HEARTS THAT HATE (wtf?): They are the Spinal Tap of emo. I did the verses to that song with producer Mike Sapone then he hooked up with two of our friends out in New York who used to be in bands that did similar stuff and they wrote the chorus. We tweaked it to make it fit and cast a fake band for the video.
• GIGS OF MUSIC (just how many gigs are in that laptop(s) of yours?): I run a 40 gig laptop and have done hundreds of shows with that thing.
• PIEBALD APPROVED: (what have they had to say about their sample?) They are fiscally compensated and we toured England together last summer. They like “iGeneration” and I like them so life is good.
• ABANDONED PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY YOU WISH TO RESURECT: (laserdiscs? floppys? ghettoblasters?) I used to use zip disks a lot to record scratch vocals on my BR8. However, that was cumbersome because you can’t digitally edit the flows visually. It was great for guitar riffs so I’d like to bring the zip disk digital recording back in 2006.

• ESSAY
I left my dorm room to bring my music to the masses because:
Today’s music is often unimaginative, stagnant, and calculated. I fought this by doing something honest and ridiculous in my dorm room with some dear friends who knew how to do what was chugging in my brain and have been elated by the response. I will keep writing songs about stuff that excites me until they pry my ProTools rig from my cold dead fingers. Watch out because it’s a revolution of DIY honesty that doesn’t care to be labeled as a novelty, because it’s not.