“Nerd rock” pop punk band Nerf Herder will play an acoustic show Saturday at the Mercury Lounge in Goleta. (Dana Ross Sherlock photo) In a surprising second life in music, Gripp has written and posted ...

Parry Gripp has had an interesting musical life, from nerd punker in Nerf Herder to YouTube viral video wizard to music writer for children's cartoons. Nerf Herder released Rockingham this spring, so ...

Recently, we reported that Nerf Herder released a new track called "I'm the Droid You're Looking For" as part of the Crappy Records compilation Have a Crappy Summer. As a follow up to that tid-bit of ...

The ’90s were a much softer time. You could sell a bunch of records as a rapper if you were just a decent rapper but could kill some choreography, and pop-punk was all the rage, offering ...

Listen on the player above, or download as an mp3 here (right click, save as). Some of the greatest hits from Nerf Herder’s brief flirtation with traditional rockstardom included singing Clive Davis ...

Nick Woods, frontman of hooks-and-heck-raisin’ pop-punks Direct Hit!, chatted up Gripp about the legend of Nerf Herder, the roots of “nerdcore,” what the internet has done for him lately and the ...

In celebration of the mere Rumor (sorry Blabbermouth we need to at least read it on Guitar World), LAist will be dancing the night away to all the classic Van Halen tunes today because of word that ...

But don’t cry for Gripp, Santa Barbara. Most people grow content with lives of quiet desperation; Parry’s existence has been more like a parade of brilliant, hilarious career triumphs. The former lead ...

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Midway through judging the Cask’s Not Dead Festival’s thirty-ish entries, a perfect beer engine pull of an ultra-traditional English Dark Mild sat before me. Scoring blind, it got a 10/10 for ...

Nerf Herders, as the current “Star Wars” revival will attest, is an impolite name that Han Solo tosses off in the overrated space series. Here comes a band with considerably less pretension using the ...