If you’ve never been to a chiptune show – yes, they exist – you’ve noticed the awesome visuals behind the performers that are usually displayed with a glitching NES. If it’s a really good show, that 8 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boston-based chiptune band Battlemode has come a long way since the group’s early days when some of their first crowds were less ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...