Jonathan Coulton

Summary: 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.

Filed under: acoustic, comedy, folk, indie, singer-songwriter

Upcoming Shows

Thu, Mar 8 2012

they might be giants + Jonathan Coulton

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PAX East 2010 (Saturday): Video Game Orchestra
Published 3/29/2010 by Maddy Myers
The Video Game Orchestra opened their Saturday night concert with this medley of classic Super

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PAX East, Day Two: Best Games of All Time + Nerdcore Musical Guests
Published 3/27/2010 by Maddy Myers
As I write this, I am waiting for the Video Game Orchestra to begin their

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In honor of PAX East: An extended Jonathan Coulton interview
Published 3/26/2010 by Shaula Clark
Jonathan Coulton serenades Wil Wheaton at PAX 2009So -- like the other 60,000 of you

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Geek icon
Published 3/19/2010 by SHAULA CLARK
Jonathan Coulton talks PAX

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PAX East & Anime Boston: One Month Away!
Published 2/24/2010 by Maddy Myers
There’s only one month left before PAX East comes to Boston (March 26-28). That’s