Video Game Music re-arranged, re-orchestrated, and re-made…
August is about to end, which means it’s time for our special episode of “On Stage Now” that showcases a musician and their works of covers and remixes. This month, our featured musician is tnbee. tnbee is a composer and producer or orchestral/hybrid arrangements of music. Their influences point towards several sources, starting with anime […]
The poet is a sayer, the namer, and represents beauty… -Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet” Today, on August 21st, is Poet’s Day, a day that honors the art of the poem and its poets. All poems can take several forms, from the strict cadence of iambic pentameter, to the loose and fancy-free form of free […]
Today we are celebrating the birthday of Daisuke Ishiwatari, a man that wears many hats as a composer, video game developer, illustrator, musician, and voice actor. He is known popularly known for the Guilty Gear series, for its character design, storyline, and music, along with voicing Sol Badguy (until 2007). He has collaborated with several […]
Today on August 7th is National Sea Serpent Day, also known as Sea Dragon Day. It commemorates those mythological creatures that appear in many cultural and urban folklore. One of the more famous sea serpents is the Loch Ness Monster, nicknamed “Nessie”, supposedly photographed in Scotland. While the photograph has been debunked, Nessie definitely left […]
Boy, July was a long, hot month, but we’re finally at its end, which means it’s time our special episode of “On Stage Now”. This month’s musician is RichaadEB. RichaadEB (real name Richard Bichler) is a metal guitarist that records and produces original music and metal covers of music from video games, anime, and popular […]
Before you lies the open road, with its many twists and turns, entrances and exits, and at times a path less used or paved. Your map shows the network of roads that pass through or end at a city or stop. There’s a destination in mind, guided by a general direction that needs to be […]
Sometimes going the wrong way is a good thing… Just ask Douglas Groce Corrigan, a pilot who decide to fly in the ‘wrong direction’, and we’re celebrating National Wrong Way Corrigan Day on July 17th. It was on this day, back in 1938, that Corrigan didn’t follow his submitted flight plan, from New York to […]
Today we’re celebrating the 26th anniversary of Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec, back in July 10, 2001, exclusively for Sony’s PlayStation 2. It was the third installment and is the series’ first game within the sixth generation of consoles. While there is multiplayer mode via Arcade Mode, the core Gran Turismo experience lies in Simulation Mode. […]
Happy 250th Birthday, America! On July 4th, delegates of the Second Continental Congress met to sign a document that would set a course for the Thirteen Colonies. Intense debate and voting sessions in previous days and weeks were required to ensure that all the colonies were in agreement. All knew they were declaring themselves traitors […]
This week’s episode is a special tribute to Bobby Prince (aka Robert Caskin Prince III), the composer for several id Software games and their series, such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Duke Nukem, and Rise of the Triad. He passed away recent on Jun 16th. Bobby Prince had an interest in MIDI technology during the late […]