always listening
I’ve written about Bit Brigade before. They’re a Georgia-based rock band that performs painstakingly faithful adaptations of music from Nintendo games from the 80’s and 90’s. Or more specifically Nintendo Entertainment System games. And they are thorough. They will performRead more…
Video game cover music has become quite the sub genre. Type the name of a video game you like into YouTube’s search engine and there’s a good chance somebody’s got a video of themselves playing a tune from the soundtrack.Read more…
You’ve got to admire Bit Brigade’s painstaking attention to detail. With “Ninja Band,” they’ve recorded note-for-note covers of the soundtracks from the NES Ninja Gaiden games. Tecmo’s series of side-scrollers were notorious for two things: their brutal difficulty and theirRead more…
My introduction to chiptune-powered outfit Anamanaguchi came many years ago when the gamer-centric (and immensely influential) website Penny-Arcade linked to their “Power Supply” EP. I was immediately hooked by this band creating original music using what sounded like an oldRead more…
When the Minibosses released a handful of video game covers back in 2000 it was novel and fresh. In the years since there’s been a ton of bands providing variations on the theme. While the Minibosses specialized as a four-pieceRead more…