One of the more unusual winners at last night’s Grammys were the 8-Bit Big Band, who picked up the Best Arrangement ...

Composer David Farrell started making 8-bit covers of Christmas songs several years ago for fun. Using tones roughly based on the sounds that an old Nintendo console makes, Farrell would generate the ...

I'm especially fond of jazz covers (I've been a fan of insaneintherain's music for years), and I distinctly remember how ...

The 8-Bit Big Band rehearses to a classic Super Mario game. (Photos courtesy of The 8-Bit Big Band) A full-size orchestra that plays video game music? Whoever heard of such a thing? For Los Angeles ...

The 8-Bit Big Band, under the direction of Tony-nominee Charlie Rosen, has released their third full length album, Backwards Compatible. An exploration of the "Great Video Game Songbook'', this ...

Japanese artist and developer Riki Iwasaki last month released 8-Bit Music Power, a chiptune album that as of now can only be played on Nintendo's original home console. Adam Bolton is a contributor ...

Earlier this year, the Digital Culture Beat had the pleasure of attending the “8-bit Music Exhibit” for the Digital Studies Institute, planned by Toni Bushner and Norah Vulpes — a digital scholarship ...

When Soccer Mommy dropped her sophomore record, color theory earlier this year, she was looking forward to playing it live for everyone. But then the coronavirus pandemic hit. So she had to think of ...

You’ve got to love that 8-bit sound. Blips and bloops and beeps magically merge together to create choppy, nostalgic melodies that remind us how far we’ve come since the first personal computers. But ...

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