[DID NOT ATTEND: November 17, 2022] I Fight Dragons / MC Lars / Schaffer The Darklord
This show was moved from Milkboy to Silk City pretty close to showtime. I’ve never been to Silk City, so I don’t know much about it. Bu I assume it’s pretty small.
I have wanted to see MC Lars for a couple of years now and the shows keep conflicting with something else.
This show had two of the Four-Eyed Horsemen show that I wanted to go to back in 2021.
But I hadn’t heard of I Fight Dragons. They are an American chiptune-based rock band from Chicago. Their music is a combination of rock with chiptune, featuring electronic sounds made using Nintendo Game Boys and Nintendo Entertainment Systems.
A review from Greeblehaus says
If you have never seen I Fight Dragons live, their sound is chiptune-based, which I think (in some ways) sells them short as musicians, because that sounds like they rely on video games to make their music. Every single one of the guys is incredibly talented musically, and just like any good performer, these self-proclaimed geeks use those clips to make their songs – and performances – more interesting.
I rather wish I had gone, although I think I’d like to see MC Lars as a headliner. But I Fight Dragons sound pretty cool.
MC Lars, according to Wikipedia,
plays with a laptop and occasionally a punk rock band to back him up, which he refers to as “post-punk laptop rap”. Samples from bands such as Supergrass, Piebald, Brand New, Fugazi, and Iggy Pop play a key role in MC Lars’s music. Hearts That Hate, whose song “Cry Tonight” is sampled in Lars’ “Signing Emo”, is a fictional group created by the rapper. MC Lars has also shown an interest in using lyrics and song titles based on English and American literature. “Rapbeth” references William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, while “Mr. Raven” is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”. “Ahab” is about the novel Moby Dick and “Hey There Ophelia” on This Gigantic Robot Kills retells the story of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Schaffer The Darklord
Is nerdy, but is also very raunchy–unlike the other rappers. He seems a little out of place here, but not really.
Here’s a blurb from Little Village
Schäffer the Darklord, a.k.a. STD, is a 47-year-old (in 2022) rapper who’d probably have a few words to say to his 20-something self if he had access to a time machine. “I feel like I made an impulsive decision to adopt the stage name in 2003,” Mark Schaffer said, “and all these years later, I do have a bit of buyer’s remorse. But I’ve built too much of a catalog at this point to consider changing it.” Over the past two decades, the Iowa born-and-raised MC has released several albums, EPs, singles and collaborations, including several with fellow Iowa City expatriate Coolzey. His songs are filled with a mix of goofy juvenilia, absurd sexual content, nerdy grammatical breakdowns and introspective lyrical detours, such as a song about sexual consent titled “Yes” from his 2015 EP Sex Rhymes.
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