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Jonathan Coulton is a geek rock/folk rock musician. He is best known for such compositions as “Still Alive” and “Code Monkey”, as well as his cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”. He is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman’s Little Gray Book Lectures.

Every week for a year Coulton released a new song for free on his website as part of his Thing a Week podcast, on topics as diverse as vengeful nerds, self-loathing giant squid, partially-imagined historical figures, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store. The Thing a Week project is now complete, and all songs can be streamed from his website, http://www.jonathancoulton.com/. Many of the songs on the site can be downloaded for free.

The song “Code Monkey” became the theme song to the G4 television show Code Monkeys.

Coulton’s song “Still Alive” has been featured in Valve Software’s game Portal (and has become a hit among the gamers who finished the game) . He also made a recording of this song called the “J.C. Mix” which is exactly the same except he is singing rather than Ellen Mclain as GLaDOS. “Still Alive” went on to be featured in the game Rock Band, as well as Skullcrusher Mountain and Re:Your Brains
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  • DJ_Damien

    It's the first of May!

    26 days ago

  • eN4ez

    <3 por_tal

    last month

  • Cogumelo_G

    still alive > want you gone > re your brains ! PERFECT ! <3

    last month

  • XPEHBAM

    wtf!? how the hell did i get here listening to good old black metal! on last.fn black metal radio!?? Last.fm, w u n brains!?!?!?!?

    March 2012

  • siriusthinking

    @weirdojace I totally agree, it's completely different. I don't like it as much as his other stuff, but it's not bad. Just different.

    February 2012

  • weirdojace

    I dunno what you heard because Artificial Heart is way different than all of the stuff before, both lyrically and musically. Not that I mean it's better or worse, but it's definitely different.

    February 2012

  • Ice_9

    Seems like Artificial Heart consists of a lot of the same type of song he's done previously. Either very similar thematically or musically. It's still ok, just not as good as other things he's done.

    February 2012

  • DavidGaal

    faggot nerd

    February 2012
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Vancouver, BC – 06/23/12

24 Jun 2012 | from www.jonathancoulton.com

When Saturday, June 23, 2012 7:30pm - 19+ Where Venue (map) 881 Granville Street Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 1K7 « Back to the calendar

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