Boston-based chiptune band Battlemode has come a long way since the group’s early days when some of their first crowds were less than friendly. Founding member David Jubinsky, or Biff as he’s known in ...
Last week, I was in Boston to give a book reading, and after the event, I went to South Station to get a midnight bus back to New York. In the bus station, I heard an older woman, probably seventy, ...
Conversations about the chiptune music scene usually conjure up images of nerds with Nintendo Game Boys and dusty Commodore computers twisting retro sounds into hyper dance music. That’s true to an ...
Music veteran Eric Brown, known as Rainbowdragoneyes within the chiptune community and around town for his drumming in Vale of Pnath and Vimana, describes his one-of-a-kind computerized music style as ...
I haven’t been playing live shows as a chiptune artist for very long compared to some of my peers, but nearly every time I do, people ask me the same question: “What are you doing with that thing!?” ...
Chiptunes are the fantastic, bleeping musical renditions of the soundchips of retro consoles past. Performers of the art overwhelmingly favour the various flavours of Game Boy, though there are those ...
Do you remember the 1980s or 1990s? Were you even born then? Well, if you were, then you likely fondly remember things like the Nintendo Entertainment System or Game Boy and those other fabulous ...
Chip music band Starscream employs aged video game and computer equipment to create their unique sound Nintendo Game Boys and Commodore 64s are the types of aged devices one might find in a childhood ...