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 ...

We interviewed the New York-based musician Haeyoung Kim — aka BubblyFish — one of the performers at this year’s Blip Festival (November 29 to December 2 @ New York’s Eyebeam lab), to find out more ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Emo math-rock band Daydream Plus have released an 8-bit chiptune remix version of their debut album Second Last Day of Summer that's only available as a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) cartridge.

Remember in high school when mom pawned all your old video games ‘cuz you never played them anymore? Then, as soon as you got to college and first felt homesick, you ended up buying a used SNES and ...

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 ...

Diode Milliampere holds an ancient Toshiba laptop up to the camera of a more modern laptop, so that the window of our Skype conversation fills with a flickering, constantly refreshing grid of numbers ...

Long after their ‘80s heyday, the kind of chirpy sounds that helped make Mario and his contemporaries famous have been adopted by electronic musicians across the board, and the influence of ‘chip’ ...

Nintendo Game Boys and Commodore 64s are the types of aged devices one might find in a childhood closet or stuffy attic. But imaginative musicians in a gamer-centric subculture have been using this ...