A. Video game music is similar to generalized bodies of music in the past, such as the Great American Songbook, top 40, and jazz standards. Because there was a collective experience of consuming video ...

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 ...

Big-band jazz and video games normally come from different eras, if not different universes. It took Charlie Rosen — Berklee graduate, Broadway composer, lifelong gamer and leader of the 8-Bit Big ...

On a typical day in 1992, the young guy who would go on to become the chip-rockers Anamanaguchi would be hanging out in their parents' basement. Bottles of Jolt cola might be sitting next to a ...

On the latest episode of The 8-Bit Show, host Hekla Peturrson talks to Madison Turner about RVA’s alternative music scene.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Disney Channel’s animated series Amphibia is a wild portal fantasy following a young girl named Anne who finds herself in a swampy world full of anthropomorphic amphibians. Creator Matt Braly (Gravity ...

Soccer Mommy was supposed to be on tour this summer for her album Color Theory, but like most other live music events, those plans have been scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Luckily, fans can ...