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Fastball on their newest release, Little White Lies

Though they didn’t technically breakup, fans would be forgiven for thinking Fastball had called it quits after 2004’s Keep Your Wig On, arguably the band’s best album to date.

Though Fastball has been keeping pretty quiet, the members have been busy putting in time with other bands and working on solo projects as well as catching up with families and just trying to live normal lives. Half a decade after putting the tour bus in storage, the Austin-based band is back with Little White Lies, their fifth full length. The record is, in the tradition of their early albums, straight ahead rock.

Guitarist Miles Zuniga and bassist/singer Tony Scalzo spoke with us recently about the hiatus, the new album and really bad baseball porn.
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MC Lars
by John B. Moore

It’s not hard to imagine MC Lars, one of nerdcore’s most famous ambassadors, lip syncing to Weird Al songs as a youngster.

It was a bit of idol worship then, when the twenty-something rapper found himself recording with the accordion-totting parody king last year. Weird Al is just one of well over a dozen or so guests who stopped by to share the mic with MC Lars for his latest This Gigantic Robot Kills.

The record, his ninth if you throw in the numerous EPs he’s released, is exactly what people have come to expect from the California born and bred MC: witty swipes at celebrity, hipsters and trends.

MC Lars (born Andrew Robert Nielsen), spoke with INsite recently about the European fans, his new album and the chances that he may someday record with Raffi.
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