One of the more unusual winners at last night’s Grammys were the 8-Bit Big Band, who picked up the Best Arrangement ...

Rock and metal has quite a lot in common and with Nintendo in particular. One YouTuber connected both worlds and revamped classic songs by Iron Maiden, Slayer, Tool, Ghost, Opeth and more, turning ...

I'm especially fond of jazz covers (I've been a fan of insaneintherain's music for years), and I distinctly remember how ...

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 ...

As technology gets more advanced and pop music relies more heavily on Auto-Tune, there is, as always, a counter-culture movement that looks to previous decades for its answers. As the 8-bit ...

2 Listen to the 2026 Grammy Nominees for Best Musical Theater Album The 8-Bit Big Band, under the direction of Tony-nominee Charlie Rosen, has released their third full length album, Backwards ...

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 ...

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 ...

As far as the Internets go, Doctor Octoroc is the real deal — he's the animator, composer, and wizard behind more or less every good retro videogame parody online, like “Jersey Shore: The RPG,” “Game ...

Like a relentless swarm of Space Invaders, retro videogame graphics have marched into music videos over the past decade. Directors, never immune to the nostalgic allure of the pixel, have injected ...