Laptops and iPods: MC Chris and Math the Band

I saw Math the Band and mc chris this past weekend at Tempe's Clubhouse. I didn't know who either of them were a half-hour before the show, but I had an extraordinarily good time. I took videos too, which came out sucky, but I decided to upload them anyway because I have a weird hobby of saturating YouToob with crap.

Math the Band makes Game Boy glitch music and play it on an iPod adding in guitar and (as you can see) Justine's synth and awesome drum kit. She was wailing all over the place, my friends and I were moshing (which pissed off the boring hipsters) and we had an exhausting good time. The bizarre thing is their albums sound nothing like their live shows. Whatever.

You might know mc chris for his work on high-pitched voicework on Adult Swim as MC Pee Pants or his internet famous song about Boba Fett. He's one of those reluctant nerdcore rappers who sing about Star Wars, weed and video games, and it works.

According to chris, he threw up twice before coming onstage and hated his last experience in the Phoenix area. So it was up to us to make it a better show. Hopefully, we did a decent job but Phoenix's music scene is not the greatest.

There was a t-shirt contest that was rather boring and it lost a lot of the energy of the show. After a couple limp songs, it came back with a vengeance, with a classic rock version of Fett's Vette. It seemed like he was lip-synching to a lot of it, so he stopped playing his laptop for a minute and busted a rhyme without any beats. Whatever. It was fun and it was movement. That's what people really go to shows for. To blow out their eardrums and sweat and move a lot. It's more fun than the gym.

Good show all around.