Blog: Max Bumps

For Chicago band I Fight Dragons, saving the world--and sounding great--is all in a day's work. This week I caught up with lead singer Brian Mazzaferri, who explains the band's mix of pop-rock and sweeping electronic melodies--those cute beeps and bloops from old video games. "When I heard the distinctive waveforms and patterns of the NES soundcard growing up, it was always associated with adventure, with epic journeys," he said. The band channels that energy into their songs, be they clever tributes to video games or just plain knock-your-socks-off rock. To play the NES components of the songs [...]