
The Philly 8-bit community is a rising and supportive group of forward-thinking musicians while still being able to keep true to their roots and childhood love. Below is a new (classic) track from Autoscroll called "Beatnik on the Ship - Streets of Rage." Autoscroll is the side project from members of Cheap Dinosaurs with help from their 8-bit pals ( Animal Style , Chipocrite , Store Cats , an0va ). They just dropped their debut self-titled album yesterday (which you can grab HERE ). [...]

Nero - Doomsday (Exclusive Preview) [HD] from Drone V on Vimeo . Nero s for awhile now has seemed the righful heir to the Justice throne of stadium electronic rock music and this new album cements that title... Tracks like Doomsday and Me and You are the perfect mesh of ROck N Roll and electronic. I've listened to most of the album now and would say this is one that you should support. They also launched a new game on their Facebook page called [...]

The rising producer Melé offers us wicked blend of " Streets Of Rage 2 " videogame soundtrack and " Clubbin " by Marques Houston ft Joe Budden: this works really well and it will fit in your dj set to drop some hip hop groove! It reached the 100 downloads limit in a few hours but say thanks to Melé who added a new link! MELÉ - STREETS OF RAGE

Streets Of Rage , c'est l'association de Bootyben et de Marvy Da Pimp , deux fous furieux adeptes de ghetto music qui tachent ! Pour leur premier EP intitulé The Art Of Fighting , ils signent trois originaux booty house, accompagnés de deux remixes du titre Drop Like This , l'un juke par Leatherface , l'autre ghetto-tech par l'icône chicagoanne Umbertron . Attention au tabassage de dancefloor avec cette sixième sortie Booty Call Records ! Streets Of Rage - The [...]

Streets Of Rage est l'association machiavélique et sanglante de Marvy Da Pimp et Bootyben , qui ont comme but de lutter contre les forces du mal et les démons du clubbing avec pour seules armes basslines rugissantes, kicks frontaux, et gimmicks meurtriers, afin de rétablir l'harmonie musicale. Leur premier opus nommé The Art Of Fighting , est composé de trois tracks originaux à l'efficacité éprouvée qui se voient complétés par la puissance de feu des remixes du terrifiant Leatherface (du collectif Nightmare Juke Squad ) et de l'inégalable UmberTron , icône de [...]
Finally, finally get round to showcasing what February has in store for me/you/us in the coming weeks.... TUESDAY 8th FEBRUARY ------------ BRIGHT EYES @ Oran Mor It starts off tonight with Saddle Creeks finest, the unashamedly solemn Bright Eyes performing at the Oran Mor. Unfortunately for me, regardless of the gig being 10 minutes ftom my flat, i won't be making it as it's fucking sold out. Gutted. I'm not the only one of my friends to miss out though so we'll take solace by listening [...]

The last week or so has been absolutely sensational for gigs in Glasgow. Some i did make, some i didn't make and one got cancelled altogether. Over the course of 6 days from the Tuesday (14th December) to Sunday (the 19th) there were some pretty amazing shows performed and played throughout Glasgow and it's various musical locations. Below i've compiled a list of the best gigs and included MP32s (where available), videos and links. The week should have began with Civil Civic but they sadly had to cancel their gig at The 13th Note last Monday. But since [...]

Graphic by Talia Fifteen years ago Bone Thugs-n-Harmony dropped "Eternal," a nasty free-flowing track with a sample from the video game Eternal Champions. The Super Mario Bros. theme gets remixed like crazy. Video games and music cross paths constantly, and there's plethora of bass-thumping tracks floating in our ears while we rack-up points. While we could all name tons of sweet background music, there are a few tracks that are just dying to be sampled. So without further ado, peep game.
Any kids born in the eighties will have remembered this Sega Mega Drive classic as a seriously tough guy beat em up. Streets of Rage, or as its known in Japan, "Bare Knuckle: Furious Iron... High quality download and some links hidden from RSS feed, click through to http://www.feelmybicep.com for full download

hideous choice to make tonight. a quadumvirate of decent live shenanigans to choose from. sunn o))) doing their comedy doom routine in stereo? steve earle bluecollar bluegrass bluepunkspringsteening at the rch? har mar superstar shaking his sweating love loaf in tuts? pah, pish, tish, and tosh. nope. none of these. seen them all anyway. instead i trundled along to the (un)welcoming basement of the black sparrow on a dreich sunday night with a handful of other brave foolhardy souls to see hawnay troof spit out beats and electrorhymes at the fag end of an endless tour. twas another rum [...]
For today's Friday top 5 I thought it would be fun to take a look at a thoroughly under-appreciated musical genre. Video game music. In particular, video game music from the 8-bit and 16-bit era. Follow the jump as we take a trip down memory lane and countdown the top 5 old school video game tracks. I'm sure there are plenty of amazing soundtracks for current games, but I just don't follow the gaming scene like I did when I was a pimple faced teenager. Back then I had to [...]