The bleeps and bloops from vintage video games like Donkey Kong, Super Mario Land and Mega Man are being celebrated this weekend at a new festival. Boston Bitdown is a three-day bash with dozens of ...

Kris Uzzle, also known as Astro, uses the nostalgic sounds of his handheld Gameboy to make an 8-bit style of electronic pop music called chiptune.

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Last month, radio host and event booker Rob Carballo went to Arlington’s Capitol Theatre for a screening of “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” Edgar Wright’s 2010 adaptation of the cult graphic novel ...

Miles Davis probably never played Nintendo. It’s technically possible; the genre-bending, stereotype-defying jazz legend lived until 1991, six years after the first Nintendo Entertainment System was ...

The electronic microgenre of chiptunes has always stood with one foot in the future and one firmly in the past. Chiptune musicians use the hardware found in old video game systems such as Atari and ...

Concerts Explore the local chiptune scene at Boston Bitdown music festival The music festival, taking place March 6-8, will feature more than 50 artists across five different venues in Somerville and ...

A fan produced a chiptune cover of the Battlefield main theme and shared it online. The original Battlefield theme was composed by Joel Eriksson, appearing first in Battlefield 1942. The upcoming ...

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