Slow Trauma Day

We haven't posted anything in a while because, frankly, you guys are boring. Someone's got to drum up a little drama so we can belittle those involved. I suppose for now we can go with the good ole fallbacks:

• WoW sucks
• Nerdcore music sucks

:D

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NCD crew... alive???

It looks like the NCD crew has been stumbled onto by voodoo witch doctors and administered zombie powder, because this essay was just posted to Facebook, essé. We didn't feel like reading it, since we're only interested in physical and mental trauma, but maybe you want to read it between wiping your Cheetos stained fingers on your beards. That means you, ladies.

Ever since Nerdcore first crawled out of the dark basements and bedrooms of its creators and made its way to the internet, it has been surrounded by drama. Some of you who were around for this might remember the various battles about who and what was actually "Nerdcore enough" to use the title (and those of you who don't can watch Nerdcore for Life), and the drama has continued steadliy, with at least one major incident occuuring about every three months. If anyone has ever stopped to think about it though, the drama created far outweighs the significance of the actual events.

It was this false level of importance that prompted the creation of nerdcoredrama.com. Modelled after celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton's site, it was intended to poke fun at the outlandish level of drama and infighting that surrounded a relatively small number of people. None of the posts on the blog (save for one) actually reflected our personal opinions, and we actually had a hard time coming up with topics, as all the really interesting stories had already happened.

The idea was simple: perhaps if enough attention was paid to the relatively insignificant events that were argued about on message boards and social networks, people would realize that what they were fighting about was actually unimportant, and return to making music instead of firing up their keyboards and dedicating pages of posts to meaningless events.

What we didn't count on was how serious some people would take it. The site was eventually hacked with the cooperation of John "Hex" Carter and Madhatter McGinnis, and emails were forwarded and all the posts were deleted, with the emails being publically displayed for all to see. Some of the information that was published online should have never been made public, as we deemed it either too controversial, unfounded, or nobody's business. Mr. Carter even took it a step further accused the blog of "tearing down the physical community" and "fueled concerns that artists would be expected to be able to perform at a growing festival":

"This year, we had a fear that many of the repeat artists were feeling "entitled" to performing at Nerdapalooza and could coast into the event, feeling that they've "earned" the spot, while not really progressing over the last year. Not that I feel that it is my position to explain the committee's decision, it was our observations at the time that EPP was still recovering from losing Jaylyn, hadn't released anything since 2008, and played scattered shows with inconstant lineups. This made us unsure that EPP would perform a quality show. Your passive aggressive attacks through the Nerdcore Drama site as well as your attacks in this email only fuels the fear that there are some artists that feel that they are entitled to perform at a growing music festival despite our concerns." - John "Hex" Carter in an email to us.

Mr. Carter goes on to explain the Nerdcore Drama may also have been to blame for the negative feedback Nerdapalooza has received:
"For months, there has been a negative stigma around Nerdapalooza and the scene, and that was caused by your actions."
Now I was at Nerdapalooza, and not once did I hear any mention of Nerdcore Drama or any stigma involving it. What I did hear, however, was that EPP managed to put on a solid show despite having such a difficult performance slot, and many people remarked that it was one of the highlights of the whole weekend.

However:
"Breeding that much negativity and animosity, targeting it passive aggressively at me instead of sending a simple email are not traits I support. As such, I, as a promoter, am doing my part to discourage that kind of activity. I'm boycotting you and Kourtney as performers at shows. I have discussed this with the Nerdapalooza team, and we are in agreement that neither of you are welcome to perform at our shows."

After sending this email, Mr. Carter went a step further, banning not only those responsible for the blog, but also the other members of Emergency Pizza Party from performing or even attending any Nerdapalooza-related events. Mr. McGinnis then took it upon himself to remove Emergency Pizza Party from his label, even though none of the other members of EPP had any knowledge of who was behind Nerdcore Drama (they actually didn't care at all). As of this writing this change has not been reflected on scrubclubrecords.com, but I have it on good authority that it is indeed coming.

Let's put this in perspective. Do you think the promoters of Bonnaroo go around hacking into blogs and banning people from attending because they expressed a negative opinion? How about the people who run any major record label? No. Not only is this because doing so is a federal crime and violates the Constitution, but because they are reasonable people who know that the opinions of one blogger on the internet don't hold enough power to bring down their organization.

Now, not once did we ever receive an email expressing any concerns about this, and instead of talking to us directly, these two decided it would be better to hack the site, destroy the bad press and ban the people who dared to express any negative opinions publicly. What is the justification behind this? Were they so scared of bad press that they would illegally hack into someone's website and expose their personal information as well as unfounded rumors about people that we never intended to publish? Over what? A gossip column? I really hope they never achieve any sort of real celebrity, as that kind of behavior doesn't work in the real world.
Banning three prominent members of this community and their band members (who were uninvolved) from being at Nerdapalooza for running a gossip column shows exactly how everyone in this scene takes themselves too seriously.

The hypocrisy here is clear:
"Breeding that much negativity and animosity, targeting it passive aggressively at me instead of sending a simple email are not traits I support." - John "Hex" Carter

Yet hacking a site, deleting its contents and posting personal information instead of sending a simple email is.

Awwwwww shit, sons! It's on!

BREAKING NEWS: The NCD staff is dead

NerTra has just received words that the editorial staff behind the controversial Nerdcore Drama blog have been killed. Our condolences to their friends and family. Nerdcore Drama touched us in ways we'll never forget. Dirty and wonderful ways. Ways of the dragon. To our friends from Nerdcore Drama: you will be missed.

So who's up for a festive dinner? Coronas on us!

MC WRECKSHIN IS PREGGERS?!?!?!?!?!

A reader sent in the damning photo of MC Wreckshin from NAP2010. It looks like he's showing a little! Who could the father possibly be? Smart money is on Rappy! Congrats to the new homosex fathers!