NEWS

2011 Top Ten

2012-01-23T10:37:00.001-08:00

Oh yea! The 2011 numbers are coming in. You guys listened to about 1,618 MTR songs last year. These are the ten most popular picks. I've a solid blend old stuff, new stuff, and initial sketches of songs you'll be hearing in the future.

1 Esoteric Devices
A gritty, crime story about a retired cop and the girl he couldn't save.
2 Fake Jazz
Time travel Vs. Hipsters in a blow out!
3 Arlington! Come Back To DC
Pittsburgh is a nicer city than our nation's capitol.
4 If I Were Eric Nassau
I've been singing this to Eric for years. Glad you feel the same way.
5 New Bottom Line
Protest punk is back!
6 We'll Never Fuck
Best chorus 2011
7 Let's Start With What We Do Know(the next great dance craze will tear us apart)
Our The Who song
8 Wonk How The Policy Wonks
Melancholy and the infinite badness!
9 Nicole Is Going To A Sausage Party
A classic sing along from the end of the solo era.
10 Hemlock & Hammers
A sketch from the 2011 daily challenge. Likely to be on the next album.

Thanks for listening!!! Keep it up.

2012-01-15T11:32:00.001-08:00

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Spend Cyber Monday WIth Marvin The Robot!

2011-11-28T09:03:00.001-08:00

Happy Cyber Monday Everyone!

We've had a busy year pumping out tasty jams for you this year.
For the holiday season, I'm offing up some special sales on everything from signed 7"s to digital downloads.

Marvin The Robot/Mors Ontologica 7"
All 7"s Ordered between now and Dec 10th will be signed!
Less than 10 Clear Vinyl 7"s/DVD Combos are left!!!

Hip Hop!!
Yiffing - The Back Order
Brand New EP from my new hip hop project.
Name your own price for digital download in any format.
MP3, FLAC, WAV, whatever. It's yours.

Incognegro - Now That's What's Up!
Singles and Unreleased tracks from my old hip hop project
Name your own price starting at $3 for digital download!

Limited Editions!!
I'm going to make some short run CDs and USB packages for the holidays!

The New Bottom Line CD (only 25)
Hadmade CD and Digipak design for our 2011 release

2011 Daily Songs USB (only 10)
The complete collection of daily songs plus videos, live photos, and more!

Our Hands To Ourselves Double CD (only 25)
Because You Asked For It!!! A physical version of one our most popular digital albums.

Almost Out Of Clear 7"s!!

2011-11-04T10:38:00.000-07:00

Only 3 clear vynill MTR/Mors Onotlogica 7" splits left! These limited edition puppies come with a DVD featuring the video for Unremarkable, a documentary about the making of the seven inch and two shorts.

Of course, we still have lots of plain black vinyl copies. All 7"s come with a comicbook.

7 Inches!!!

2011-09-08T06:40:00.000-07:00

The long awaited Marvin The Robot/Mors Ontologica 7 Inch Split is finally out!!

Pick up at 7"/DVD combo pack off our Etsy page *

100 Black Discs will be available at shows
10 clear are being sold on the Etsy page,
and another 40 marble discs will be made available over the next few months.

* Right click and select "open link in new tab", or if you load the page in this page,use right arrow to scroll over to the "add to cart" button

The Return Of The Loveiathan Remix Torrent

2011-07-26T13:53:00.000-07:00

Back by popular demand!

I'm seeding a new torrent for the Remix Edition of The Loveiathan!

This version comes with the album, videos, and the whole record in raw tracks so you can remix it to your heart's delight.

Download the torrent here

Seeding starts at midnight. Send remixes to marvintherobotexperience@gmail.com

We'll be posting the best remixes to our facebook group in August and September

All Ages Show This Sunday!

2011-07-22T09:12:00.000-07:00

We've got a treat lined up this weekend for those of you with early bed times and the young folks out there too.

We're playing an all ages show this sunday at the Shrunken Head. Featuring Fast Car from Phillie, and One-man dance riot, Teen Fiction.

It's on!

2011-07-13T01:07:00.000-07:00

Marvin The Robot June Sale!

2011-06-07T11:03:00.000-07:00

Here's a chance to save some money on good music and help determine the future of your favorite, friendly, neighborhood indie rock legends.

Only one Marvin The Robot album will be available on iTunes for the rest of 2011. Which one will it be?

You decide!!!

Download The Album I Should Keep On Itunes

Midwesterns or The Loveiathan
Download for whatever price you choose starting at $1 in any format your heart desires. Physical prints available too!

A Cinematic Week For The Robot

2011-06-02T13:22:00.000-07:00

I'm not gonna lie. I love the sight of my own face. Even when I could really loose ten pounds.

This week rules cus you can find me no less than two on-line premieres!

#1 Riot In The Heart.
A new series about the Columbus, Ohio music scene, friends, lovers, and amps.

Episode 1 is all about me. Enjoy this classic line up of Me, Danielle on bass, and Tim O'Dell on drums.

#2 Hoodlum
The first release from Arawak City Films, a baby of Columbus Indy Media. See me sing dirty, filthy things in this modern parable.

Hooldum is free to download everywhere in the world.
It also comes with a movie poster and a soundtrack.

The Insatiable Bottom Line

2011-05-26T14:09:00.000-07:00

A live music video made in support of insatiablebottom.com, a anti-Kasich joke site devoted to repealing SB5, or at least making fun of the loser who stands behind it.

Season Two Of The Daily Song Challenge

2011-05-26T11:21:00.000-07:00

We're already of day two of Seaon Two of The Daily Song Challenge!!

Boiling Quinoa is the first new song of the second season.

More songs every day.

Last Stalker Edition on Etsy!

2011-05-03T07:20:00.000-07:00

I'm down to the last copies of Enthusiast and Stalker Editions of the Loveiathan.

Order it now on Etsy before some one else does.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/64423581/marvin-the-robot-the-loveiathan-stalker

The Enthusiast is a pill shaped USB drive that comes with album, music videos, a documentary about the early years, and a photo gallery.

The Stalker is the Enthusiast plus Two DVDs containing the entire album in raw tracks for all you remix mavens in the hizzy. I'm still waiting for Girl Talk to make a dubstep version of Sign Of The Times.

The 6th Annual 24-Hour Zombie-Jesus Easter Movie Marathon

2011-04-19T22:53:00.000-07:00

Simultaneous video-projected screenings of zombie and Jesus/Easter-themed movies to celebrate the O.Z. (Original Zombie).

A musical pre-show will start the festivities at 9:00 p.m., Saturday, April 23, with Marvin The Robot and Biff Boff Barf.

At Midnight, celebrate the power of Zombie-Jesus with the beginning of the movie marathon! Bring your sleeping bags, true marathon-e...rs!
Easter Sunday Evening musical services will be provided by No. 1 Cat and Quiet Pepsi.
follow this link for movie schedules

Record Store Day!

2011-04-16T07:13:00.000-07:00

In honor of record store day, I've changed all the prices of digital download to cira 1997 rates. Specifically the pricing scheme of Believe In Music in Grand Rapids, MI where I used to work.

Go out and support your local record shops. Keep hipster working in the only jobs they're good for. Please America!!

I'd also like to shout out all the record stores that support me. Support them I say!!

Columbus, OH
Used Kids, Lost Weekend, Spoonful Record, Dreadful Sounds, What The Rock!?!?

Akron, OH
Square Record

Grand Rapids, MI
Vertigo Music, Dodd's Record Shack

LA
Sea Level

Spring Sale 2011!

2011-04-12T10:57:00.000-07:00

Hey Ya'll!

Nice weather is around the corner. Record Store Day is like any day now.
Why wait to stock up on jams?

Classic Albums $1
Initmate Distances

The first album. Originally released as handmade digipack/booklet. The download edition comes with a photo collection including original artwork, live photos, and old t-shirt designs

Psalms For The Sexually Disenfranchised
A good choice for anyone going through a winter into spring break up. Recorded at the famous BLD Studios. Featuring the NPR hit, No Use

Pop Monster Cassette EP

This beloved, but frequently out of print gem has been brought back for your enjoyment.

All yours to download in your favorite formats (FLACs for you audiophiles, MP3s for regulars, whatever you want!! Just one American dollar.

Newer Albums for $2

The New Bottom Line

The latest release from the house of Robot.

Recorded for the annual RPM Challenge!

A quick romp through economic collapse, Chinese take out, discomfort in the workplace, and line dancing all night.

The Loveiathan

The First full band album. Catchy, frenzied, witty, and ready to cuddle up.

The Hits Of 2011 First Quarter

2011-04-02T00:38:00.000-07:00

Here are 5 of our most popular songs of the new year. Click on the name of a song, and it will take you our Bandcamp player.

Thanks for the spins ya'll!

Fake Jazz

Arlington! Come Back To DC

No Good Boy

We'll Never Fuck

Rich Kids Got It Easy Baby

Thanks Pat Radio

2011-03-31T10:42:00.000-07:00

Pat radio
‎Mealworms LP release party, and Guinea Worms/Grafton/Cheater Slicks featured prominently, along with Marvin The Robot and Andrew Graham and Swarming Branch. Tonight at 6 on Wcrs Columbus or follow the link and listen right now, by golly.
pat radio - March 31, 2011 | WCRS LP Columbus Community Radio
www.wcrsfm.org

By the way, upcoming shows for Marvin the Robot include April 23 at Skylab and May 14 at Ruby Tuesday as part of the annual Black Box Benefit. The Bildmeister, Bare Wires, and Davila 666 tracks can all be downloaded for free from the Free Music Archive.

Great Review by Sue

2011-03-25T15:04:00.000-07:00

The New Bottom Line got some coverage in The Review by Sue this week. Check it out. Thanks Sue!!

Before you get all ‘isn’t this the kind of music you say is controlled by secret circles and snotty hipsters” on me give the album a chance. Unlike the ultra cool hipster secret circle music the music doesn’t make you feel like an outsider when you listen to it. Of course you might not get it , or rather understand exactly what they are singing about like say in the first track “Esoteric Devices’ but don’t shy away the third track “Two Purple Hearts” will make you feel better giving you something more to relate too, “House won’t burn / Wife won’t Leave “ are lyrics most people can relate to.

A Tribute To Donnie Wahlberg!

2011-03-17T15:42:00.000-07:00

Oh Donnie Wahlberg Boy - watch more funny videos

Lyrics and Video by Eliza Faria Santos

Dot Pop Rocks

2011-03-08T17:30:00.000-08:00

Here's a documentary I made just before graduating college about the Grand Rapids, MI punk scene. It follows the music and philosphy of, well, my best friends. You can hopefully get some insight on where the robot comes from.

Digital Fire Sale!!! Final Day!

2011-02-28T10:08:00.000-08:00

I have monitary deadlines and new record coming out tommorow, so midnight tonight is the end of the digital fire sale.

In other words, if you want to get yourself some Marvin The Robot at the sweet price of $1 an album, act now!!

Today's Special: Our Hands To Ourselves

An album dedicated bad parties and bad romance. Set to some funky beats, and features a host of guest apperances including Tim O'Dell and the first MTR recordings with Danielle Kelly. Get it while it's hot!

Previous Specials

Incognegro - Z Sides:One Bling To Rule Them All
This edition features two songs not available on the iTunes version

Marvin The Robot
The Loveiathan - First release as a full band. Only the new album for rest of today.

Midwesterns - A cross country adventure in indie/folk rocking

Digital Versions include a music video.
Both of these albums are available in digital and physical formats.

Digital Fire Sale!!! Day Two!

2011-02-27T09:35:00.000-08:00

Thanks to everyone who gave support yesterday! Every bit helps.
I still have a ways to reach my funding goals, so I guess it's time to raise the stakes!

I present to thee Z Sides: One Bling To Rule Them All.

The long whispered about album by Incognegro. This $1 version comes with bonus tracks not available on the iTunes version.

It also features liquid hot beats by the one and only Mikey AK, the nerd/horror lyrical styling of Detcha, and the smooth ryhmes of MC Dibbz.

With it's fair share of dance floor afrodisiac. I'm looking to sell 100 of these today. At $1 a pop, you're getting way more than you'll pay for.

Digital Fire Sale!!! Now Until March 1st

2011-02-26T14:07:00.000-08:00

My life is a financial disaster. The upside for you is CHEAP MUSIC!!!

I'm uploading entire albums to our Bandcamp site every day that you can download for $1. If you wanna give more, you have that option. But the base price is $1 for an entire album, most of which will come with music videos, or pictures.

These download editions are way cheaper than iTunes, and you can download it in any format you want. FLAC, .MP3, .WAV. You name it!
Today's Specails. The Loveiathan and Midwesterns!!!
You can also get physical CDs for as low as $4. ($4 Includes shipping and handling)

In three days, The Loveiathan won't be the new record anymore, so why not give her a good send off?

Download Here

The download comes with the video for Unremarkable, and the last last two USB copies are going for $5.

I really love this record. It features some of my best friends, and was recorded all over the place. From BLD to Los Angeles.

Download Here

This download version comes with the video for Fear & Loathing Of Los Angeles.

This is totally an NPR pleadge drive moment. Team Robot is drown in debt, and you can help for as little as a dollar and get some sweet tunes out of it.

The New Bottom Line

2011-02-25T18:36:00.000-08:00

Our next album, The New Bottom Line will be coming out Tuesday March 1st. We recorded this album over the course of this last month for NPR's RPM challenge.

It's also note worthy that this is the first MTR album recorded on analog 4-Track since the original EPs.

I'll be leaking out songs here on the Facebook page over the weekend.

No Good Boy

2011-02-08T07:12:00.000-08:00

No Good Boy

Here's the first recording from our new practice space, deep in the heart of downtown Columbus. See us perform it live Thursday, at The South Campus Gateway Theatre.

We Started A Bandcamp Page

2011-01-24T08:18:00.000-08:00

Those of you who keep up with the Facebook group know that I've started a daily song series. Where every day I post a song, new, old, lost and recovered. I'm sure it will get weird.

What you may not have noticed, is that I'm hosting this collection on our new Bandcamp page.

Drop in, and listen to tune. Literally, new ones added every day. Everything is name your own price to download, so just go nuts guys.

Next Weekend. Friday Night. Being Awesome

2011-01-22T03:07:00.000-08:00

If you haven't been to The Woodland's yet, you should. Right in the heart of Grandview, and living up to the name.

A night of rock music!
Erika Carey 9pm
Spruce Campbells 10pm
Marvin The Robot 11pm
The Glass Winged Sharp Shooters 12am

Tonight @ Treebar

2011-01-20T08:51:00.000-08:00

Human Fakebook, Parker Paul will do his live karaoke, come down and sing all the indie rock anthems you can drink of.

Afterward, join me for a solo set of Marvin The Robot classics, new songs, and songs I've written for imaginary bands.

Fun for all who brave the weather, guaranteed.

Join Our Mailing and Get Exclusive Downloads

2011-01-16T00:02:00.001-08:00

Thanks Reverbnation for doing all the coding so I can spend more time rocking for you.

Use the widget to join the mailing list below and get two exclusive downloads of new MTR songs.

Janurary 6th @ Circus Rock N Roll Side Show

2010-12-30T07:20:00.000-08:00

We're starting the year off right with a little help from our friends. Janurary 6th, come check us out at CD 101's Rock N Roll Sideshow.

Click on the poster to join the Facebook event. You know you want to.

MARVIN THE ROBOT
MATTE BLACK SILHOUETTES http://www.myspace.com/MatteBlackSilhouettes
HONEYMOON the youngest brainchild of http://www.jonathanhape.com/

$3 C.B.C. PINTS ALL NIGHT LONG!!!
The ROCK N ROLL SIDESHOW is a monthly showcase sponsored by CD101 and Columbus Brewing Co..

Every Pregnant Woman Is A Vrigin Today.

2010-12-24T09:36:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas Ya'll!

Here's a song from our live set at the Secret Lunar Base. Relive the joy of us filling the vaccum of space with hot rock. All while supporting the Astronauts with some righteous holiday jams.

Fact. If you plug yourself into a guitar amp in space, you WILL NOT float. I have no reason to lie to you.

Merry Christmas people of 2010

We're On Etsy Now!!!

2010-12-16T02:18:00.000-08:00

Where was Etsy when I started making handmade CDs and tapes in 1999? Where was I when Etsy came out in 2005?

Well, we've finally come together, and I'm happy to lead you to it!

Visit The New Shop

This Saturday @ Kobo Live

2010-12-08T19:09:00.000-08:00

This time last year, Big Nasty and the Robot crew were sharing the attention of mix master Chronic Debotchry at his studio recording our respective albums.

This Saturday night, we sall reunite along side Heady Nuggest, which sounds good for business right? Come on down!

This show is actaully 18+ too, which is rare for Kobo.

Loveiathan USB second run. Preorder Now!

2010-11-29T06:47:00.000-08:00

I'm taking pre-orders for the second batch.
The first 30 orders are guaranteed by Christmas.

The Loveiathan - Enthusiast Edition is a USB, portable musical experience including the album, music videos, photo gallery, and a mini documentary. Specializing in highly hummable hits by Marvin The Robot.

This inventive design allows you to get a lot without taking
up tons of space. Pre-order now!

This $25 package includes. The USB drive and a special holiday DVD available only to folks who pre-order before December 8th.

Wanna get it for less?

These fine shops still have one or two copies left of the first run. Who knows how long that'll last.

What The Rock?
http://www.whattherock.com/home.html
1194 North High Street Columbus, Ohio 43201 614.294.WHAT

Dreadful Sounds
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Columbus-OH/Dreadful-Sounds/1073363626300713339 1/2 N. High Street Columbus, OH 43202 (614) 725-2243

MIstletoe Launcher $19.99

2010-11-27T11:46:00.000-08:00

All young pregnant women are vigins today
sittin' with a mistletoe launcher
laying in wait.

Party people
party too much.
At least you know what they want for Christmas.

Click Here To Listen. Enjoy!

A Little Love From The Alive

2010-09-22T18:06:00.000-07:00

I sat down with Chris Deville from the Columbus Alive just before the album release. The article features a pretty sweet slide selection.

!Enjoy!

Thanks Pat Radio!!

2010-09-16T10:35:00.000-07:00

We got some love from the king of WCRS's airwaves. Pat of Pat Radio.

I chatted about the new album, some of the band's history, and generally had fun. Now you can too.
Listen Here!

Testing The Enthusiast Editions Now!

2010-08-26T19:08:00.000-07:00

Marvin The Robot. Now In Pill Form.

9pm on a Thursday night is a time typically reserved for watching Burn Notice around these parts, but the adventures of my favorite yogurt addict will have to wait.

Seriously, what could be more important that Bruce Campbell?

It must be that I got a shipment of brand new MTR USB drives!!!  Right now, I'm listening to them and watching all the videos to make sure everything is there.  So far, so, so good.

right now

 Preorder A Copy Now!

I still need to get about $150 together by Tuesday to complete the order for the CD versions. I'm selling them for $10 now, but will probably raise the price after the official release.

Loveiathan Now Available

2010-08-26T11:43:00.000-07:00

Via Itunes:Loveiathan

Also Available:

Loveiathan "Enthusiast" USB Edition - $10.00

Loveiathan "Standard" Edition - $6.00

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