Beethoven bore you? Bach got too much bite? (Need a more modern example:) The Wurzels not woo you? Is the only music you can stomach made up of 8bit beeps and bloops? Wondering if this entire ...

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 ...

A song-by-song reworking of Nine Inch Nails' 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine, has been produced as "chiptunes" - using obsolete games console sounds instead of instruments. For those of a certain age, ...

Diode Milliampere holds an ancient Toshiba laptop up to the camera of a more modern laptop, so that the window of our Skype conversation fills with a flickering, constantly refreshing grid of numbers ...

When it comes to chiptunes, the original Nintendo Entertainment System and the Game Boy get all the accolades. The OPL synths have all the fun. But there’s another chip out there in dusty old machines ...

If you were lucky enough to own one of the earlier game consoles, you may still remember those little bleeps that passed for music. Earlier technology was extremely limited in the way it could output ...

When you think about singer-songwriters, the name Bob Dylan might come to your mind. You might think about Jeff Buckley, you might think about Hank Williams, Springsteen, David Bowie, or Prince. You’d ...

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 ...