Mr. Furious Records

Unfortunately, the Allendales had to cancel their performance at the PS Collective on Friday, June 19th for Lincoln Invasion (they scored a second night opening up for country star Chuck Wicks, I believe). Fortunately for me, I was asked to perform in their stead. So, I will be playing a solo show at the Pizza [...]

A couple weeks ago on a Monday, Lara and I went to the Nebraska State Fair to see Boyz II Men play for free at the outdoor theater. There was an awning, but I don’t want to get into semantics on a Sunday. Lara was really excited, because Boyz II Men’s “II” was her first [...]

So, Howie (with contributions from friends) started Mr. Furious Records to write, record, and post our music all for free, with no advertisements or profit or anything.  Ironically, both of our for-profit bands (weird!) are playing a show together tomorrow night (Saturday, August 12th, at the Chatterbox in Lincoln.  All ages, 4 bones, 5:30 pm [...]

It’s been a super long time since I wrote one of these bad boys, and whenever that happens I have a million little things that I want to write about, but I’ll see how cohesive I can make this nasty little elf-of-a-blog-post. The first thing I wanted to briefly comment on was the Echoes mention [...]

My blogs always seem to be a bunch of crud smooshed together in the semblance of some sort of bigger, more important crud. With that in mind, I’m totally going to make this blog about a theoretical mix CD of MFR songs, and there’s going to be ten songs on the sucker. This is off [...]

Ever since I’ve been playing live music, I’ve have many different experiences as far as how the show’s been received. I’m sure Howie or Tucci or Nate or Derek or any other MFR artist can tell you the same thing. Sometimes, there are b-loads of people at shows, and they’re loving it; other times, there [...]

Even when I go see my favorite bands live, I have an incredibly short attention span for the sets.  I get tired of standing really easily, my ears get tired of loud music easily (even with earplugs, sometimes), and I more often than not wish the sets would end about 20 minutes earlier than they [...]

So anyway, Nate and I formed our first band, Merona. At first, Merona consisted of Nate (Bike), Cory (Shacker, BP), Mike Papagni (Sexual Jedi), Yale Ensminger, and Josh Boys. Yale eventually quit, and Josh did too, because I don’t think either of them were super interested in being in a “serious” band- Josh had a billion [...]

When MFR released Nebraska Verses, the MFR audience got a pretty good taste of the history of MFR and how it related to Crete/Doane College… but, since the last track on Nebraska Verses, there have been a few people who have been very important to the identity and image of MFR. The first project on MFR to [...]

This blog is going to be three fold, as cleverly suggested by the title.  The first musing I have is on the howie&scott (or as I like to call them, Scott Money Big, or S$B) double-disc, signs.comets.  I have listened to the CD plenty of times, and although I know they were seperated into two [...]

I was going to do another blog about hip-hop, but instead, I wanted to write a blog that facilitated more discussion, because I like it when that happens.  So, I am going to lay out a couple questions I’ve been kicking around, and you can tell me what you think, MFR fans. 1.  You know when [...]

So, last Saturday, Tucci and I were one. Well, we’ve always been ONE, but what I mean to say is, we played together at Meadowlark Coffeehouse in Lincoln, NE. Originally, it was supposed to be Beach Puppy, but my feeling is that once you add a member to a solo group and the band member writes their [...]

I drove up to Minneapolis this weekend to visit my Uncle, Emerson Biggins, and to visit/record some hip-hop freestyle battles with Mr. Furious.  This is what I listened to: On the way there: The Return; Danger, Danger Silent Stranger Kula Shaker; I forget, but the record with “Mystical Machine Gun” on it Simon and Garfunkel: Greatest [...]

I want to take this opportunity to introduce a possible new MFR artist, even if we don’t release anything for another year.  We don’t have a definite name yet, or a commited drummer (although we know a guy who said he would do it, so as soon as he e-mails me back…).  We have ten songs, [...]

This is going to be a weird one, but I wanted to start a little list of the things I like about music, and what I think makes a good song.  I think the definitions are somewhat objective in the sense that the qualities all need to be there for it to be fully “great,” but [...]

It’s been a little while since I’ve added any blogness to the Mister Pister Albums Records web-log site http://www.señorfuriosorecordizzapizzamakerdeluxe4000.com/nerdyblackflips/freshfruit.org and so it’s time to do so! The Beach Puppy is getting closer and closer, and frankly, I can’t wait.  I’ve heard some just-about-finished products and it’s a lot better than I could have even imagined.  [...]

These are my favorite MCs ever and why: Kanye West: although he doesn’t floor me with his rapping skills, I am a big big fan of his beat production and most importantly I enjoy that he doesn’t take himself too seriously or talk about killing people or anything. He’s somewhere in between KRS One and [...]

The next few weeks are going to be pretty intense.  They will include (in chronological order) these things:  resigning from my job, getting a visit from Jaimie Tucci, hanging out with Matt Wisecarver, going on a cruise, and packing up and heading back to Nebraska for real.  Musically, this means a couple different things (I am [...]