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 ...

Ok so I normally don't do this but, since a lot of people asked for a mix of "arcade punk" without the vocal sampling, And I ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images Musical genres often form an integral part of a wider scene, and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Chiptune is a genre that developed from reusing the onboard synth generation chips in classic gaming consoles such as Nintendo's Game Boy. Nowadays, we can use any number of software synths to create ...

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 ...