premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival. Hess attended the festival as a musician and panelist. Hess made an appearance as a judge on the sixth episode of the first season of TBS's King of the Nerds, originally aired February 21, 2013. Musical influences Much of his earlier music features samples from other artists' works, many times using music acquired from famous artists such as Paul Simon, They Might Be Giants, James Brown, Fiona Apple, and many others. He addresses his borrowing of various drum beats in the song "Good Old Clyde", a song commenting on and using the popular "Funky Drummer" drum break by Clyde Stubblefield. Since he began selling his albums commercially, Hess has collaborated on almost all his tracks with Baddd Spellah, an electronic musician and hip-hop beatsmith, and Gaby 'Gminor7' Alter, a composer and keyboardist whose playing was the basis for many of Frontalot's earlier songs. Hess has also collaborated with fellow rappers such as MC Hawking and Canadian rapper Jesse Dangerously. Discography Studio albums Nerdcore Rising (2005) Secrets from the Future (2007) Final Boss (2008) Zero Day (2010) Solved (2011) Question Bedtime (2014) Net Split, or the Fathomless Heartbreak of Online Itself (2019) Other releases Nerdcore Hiphop (freely available demo) Favoritism (greatest hits collective available exclusively in the Humble Music Bundle) Front's Humble Remix Addendum EP (remix collective available exclusively in the Humble Music Bundle) Non-album tracks "24 Hours" (abandoned demo) "Bitchslap" (by MC Hawking) "My Sister" (by Duboce Triangle with The JBB) "Oh, the Hilarity" (from Indie Pop Cares a Lot) "Rappers We Crush" (with Kompressor) "Rhyme of the Nibelung" (with Baddd Spellah) "Romantic Cheapskate" (with Baddd Spellah for Song Fight!) "Soda Water" (by Jess Klein) "Oneonta (Eli Porter)" (with YTCracker and MC Lars on The Digital Gangster LP) "O.G. Original Gamer (with MC Lars on the MC Lars album This Gigantic Robot Kills) "Don't Wear Those Shoes" (for the "Weird Al" Yankovic tribute album Twenty-Six and a Half) "Another First Kiss" (for the They Might Be Giants "Mink Car" tribute album marking the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks.) "Challenge Your Audience (Featuring MC Frontalot & More or Les" (by Mikal kHill) References External links Official MC Frontalot website, includes official song lyrics, news, music, and forum Such a Scream, Hess's professional website 1973 births Living people West Coast hip hop musicians Nerdcore artists Wesleyan University alumni Rappers from