As you may or may not be aware there is an entire scene of people demaking popular songs into 8-bit blips and bloops. While chiptunes, in general, have always attracted the most circuit-minded of ...

When you think of pop music, what do you think of? Do you think of top 40 radio and the mindless drones that populate the three chord airwaves? Do you think of traditional vocalists mixed with the ...

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, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In today’s world of hi-gloss electro, you’d be hard-pressed to find ...

NEW YORK — Haeyoung Kim, a classical pianist, took the stage at a hip Manhattan art space before a crowd of twenty- and thirtysomethings, many shaggy-haired and wearing T-shirts and glasses. As her ...

The charm of chiptune isn’t lost on anyone who has rescued Princess Peach from the final castle. It’s a fluid style of music that’s meticulous at best, composed from the sounds of vintage game chips ...

A New Year’s Eve night out? In this economy? Chicago never has a shortage of tantalizing options for collectively marking the completion of another rotation around the sun, but for those of us whose ...

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. When Hatsune Miku goes on her next tour ...

Chiptune is a bit of an aquired taste but if you come from an appreciation of old school video games, then getting into it is a lot easier. June 5, 2012 ...