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Concert photo of Math the Band from a high angle

Concert photo of Saoirse Dream from a high angle

Kevin from Math the Band sits on a monitor with a guitar on his lap

Trash80 playing on stage in front of a crowd

Some quick shots from Boston Bitdown
(because of course if there's a ladder, I'm climbing it to get crowd shots) featuring here @saoirsedream.com, two shots of Math the Band and Trash80
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Vocalist from Ultradeluxe dancing in the crowd

Ultradeluxe performing on stage

attendees playing with a rainbow parachute during the Ultradeluxe show

Ultradeluxe on stage

Have some more. You got our stream tech up and dancing. He was super impressed

Graz and the crowd waving at the camera while Graz performs

Graz on stage performing

Graz on stage performing with Donutshoes dancing in the background

Graz on stage performing with delayed shutter effects

Well I am full on firing flash in your eyes but you took it like a champ

Ultradeluxe performing with their vocalist shooting bubbles out of a bubble gun

Graz performing in the audience

Donutshoes performing with some shutter delay effects causing streaking light

Nullsleep performing on stage in front of a crowd

Some more shots from Boston Bitdown

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Boston Bitdown 2025 — HUMP DAY NEWS The chiptune and digital arts fest makes a splash in Somerville and beyond.

"Boston Bitdown was the much needed reminder that you’re allowed to do literally anything in art. There’s no age limit, no expectations you have to meet, no phenotype you have to align with. ...Bitdown was a breath of fresh air." -- <3 @humpdaynews.bsky.social

⚡ www.humpday.news/music/live-r...

Live Shows: Boston Bitdown, The Jungle Community Music Club and Warehouse XI, Somerville, MA 3/6/25 Sometimes it's good to step outside of your musical comfort zone, and I don't know how much more I can step outside of mine than by going to...

If It's Too Loud hit the opening night of Boston Bitdown last week at Warehouse XI and The Jungle Community Music Club, catching sets from Battlemode, Math the Band, and more.

⚡ www.ifitstooloud.com/2025/03/live...

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That was awesome.

Thank you AZ for this!! You are wonderful! See you at #BostonBitdown!! <3

WBUR WBUR is Boston's NPR, featuring NPR news and programs such as On Point and Here & Now.

Tune in to @wbur.org at 7:45 and 9:45am ET to hear a radio feature on this week’s Boston Bitdown chiptune festival, with interviews with Battlemode and geekbeatradio.

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Boston Bitdown boots up for three days of chiptune - The Boston Globe The three-day festival features over 50 musical and visual artists across several venues.

Shoutout to The Boston Globe for this awesome feature on Boston Bitdown, with interviews with Battlemode, geekbeatradio, Minusworld, AmateurLSDJ++.

The chiptune + digital fusion festival kicks off Thursday.

⚡ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/04/a...

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Recordville returns to Northampton with 70,000 albums for sale - The Boston Globe Organizers hope to expand the fair to Somerville, as well.

Shoutout to the Globe for the Boston Bitdown plug in Sound Check column -- "Game on, chiptune fans. ...the fest will showcase chiptune artists from across the country at new venues every day..."

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/27/a...

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Explore the local chiptune scene at Boston Bitdown music festival The Boston Bitdown music festival, March 6-8, will feature more than 50 artists across five different venues in Somerville and Arlington.

LINK w/BostonBitdown fest info!
Thanks @boston.com!!!
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Full artists daily lineup for BostonBitdown March 6-8 2025 with a qr code link to purchase tickets.

3 weeks until #BostonBitdown!
3 day passes are limited but still available, which is the only way to get into day 1. Tickets to day 2 & day 3, as well as to the Final nights #BitRave, all available now at BostonBitdown.com

The full lineup for BostonBitdown by the day, in alphabetical order, all superimposed over a variation onnthe BostonBitdown theme and logo

Schedule & lineup now at an updated BostonBitdown.com
tickets on sale now!
@freezepopband.bsky.social @buttonmasher.bsky.social @floorbaba.bsky.social @ultradeluxe.bsky.social @excitingexcellent.com @sammulliganmusic.bsky.social @grazcore.com @lamegenie.bsky.social @nullsleep.bsky.social and more!

The Fucking Machines logo superimposed over a variation on the BostonBitdown theme and logo under the words "a 3-day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025"

The '25 lineup's complete. Fucking Machines is the newest digital fusion it-girl! This project is brand new, but MikeVideopunk's pristine resume astounds. Providing an improvised PARTICIPATORY hardware techno industria experience. They're 1/3 Modular 1/3 Groovebox & 1/3 Harsh-Noise-From-The-Audience

hahahahahhaha amazing let's just go with it 🤣😂

Game Genie Sokolov artfully lit and posing while leaning towards the camera and looking deep into your eyes superimposed over a variation on the BostonBitdown theme and logo under the words "a 3-day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025"

HAIL Sega QUEEN @Ggsokolov.bsky.social This gamer girl is everything you love about sega cool, sexy, it’s midnight. Sonic embodiment of driving the open road in a cherry mustang on a starry night. This Montreal chip artist knows exact timbres & moves to send you back to 97 & jolt you forward to 20XX

minusworld's keytar logo superimposed over a version of the BostonBitdown theme and logo under the words " a 3-day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025" Below the Keytar logo it says "minusworld + burlesque show"

Welcome minusworld to BostonBitdown! We can’t give our keytar bbs a plain set. They deserve better! Met 'em in the court of sexy high energy digital fusion! Hot in the local burlesque scene curating shows w/live music. Bringing all that to BostonBitdown! Bring $1 bills & fill up that drink honey!

Math the band smiling together for a photo dressed in white jumpsuits superimposed over a variation on the BostonBitdown theme and logo below the words "a 3-day chiptune festival march 6 - 8 2025"

You think we were gonna have a Boston chip fest without New England’s prized chip jewel? Welcome @maththebandtheband.bsky.social to BostonBitdown! For 23 years, Math has been creating the most enjoyable, anxiety filled, nintendocore known to chip. A Math set makes you dance, panic & smile <3

Zebbler washed in light performing superimposed over a variation on the BostonBitdown theme and logo below the words "a 3-day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025" the word VIZ appears in the lower left

Post 9/11 who puts cartoon art w/batteries on bridges around town? Some sort of MORON?! NOT THE '07 MOONINITE PANIC AGAIN! Menino is rolling in his grave w/this one. Welcome @zebbler.bsky.social to viz lineup! We get to celebrate w/Boston’s #1 art installation bad boy & esteemed Berklee Prof of Viz!

Active Knowledge striking a pose while performing superimposed on a variation on the BostonBitdown theme and logo under the words "a 3 day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025" a stamp that says B8B Boston8Bit certified appears in the lower left.

4 score & 7 yrs ago, our 8bit fathers brought forth on this city of Boston, a new chip collective, conceived in bleep bloops & dedicated to showcasing & promoting the local scene of chip music & other 8bit art. Welcome to the lineup, one of the fathers & co-founders of Boston8Bit: Active Knowledge.

MS PAINT with her visuals projected on her face superimposed over a variation on the BostonBitdown logo and theme under the words "a 3-day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025. The word VIZ appears in the lower left corner.

Last day of artist announcements! When the clock strikes midnight 3-day early bird pass pricing ends. Get yours now before prices go up!
On that note welcome MS PAINT to BostonBitdown. This Brooklyn based artist has a pallette of pixels, a technologist & artist blending glitch analog w/digital

v.Kash, crouching, holding a spray paint can, perhaps looking at a work in progress art piece, with other spray paint cans on the floor in front of him. superimposed over a variation in the BostonBitdown theme and logo under the words "a 3-day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025" the word VIZ is bottom right

datacats pictured on a CRT TV with cables likely from video gear or a gaming system below superimposed over a variation on the BostonBitdown theme and logo under the words "a 3-day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025" the word VIZ is bottom right

Double viz post here since I got sloppy over the Holiday & missed an announcement. Welcome to #BostonBitdown projection map wiz v.Kash who fills spaces w/imagery you only thought possible in dreams & @datacats.bsky.social reinventimg reality through an analogue lens, both elevate any performance!

Battlemode theatrically lit superimposed over a variation on the BostonBitdown theme and logo below the words "a 3 day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025" there is also a stamp that says "B8B Boston8Bit certified"

Ya Battlemode helped put this whole thing on just so they could say they played the sickest chip fest. Boston’s most tolerated chip trio Astro, Biff, & Sam Mulligan strive to combine humanity w/electronic. Boston8Bit certified & JUST COOL, OK?!? Tickets available at BostonBitdown.com for March 2025

Close up photo of our handsome friend Brick BRKer, superimposed over a variation on the BostonBitdown theme and logo, below the words "a 3 day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025" There is also a stamp that says "B8B Boston8Bit certified" as well as another stamp showing a happy frog with the words "grapic design is my passion"

You don’t announce Brick BRKer to #BostonBitdown lineup, he announces you. Who you think designed everything from the start? Logos, graphics, shirts, Brick BRKer’s all over it. He’s been composing tracks since he was a lad, he's now a man of Memphis, preparing chiptune symphonies!

Members of Agavemaria, slightly glitched and standing in front of some glitched visuals, superimposed over a variation on the BostonBitdown theme and logo, under the words " a 3 day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025"

Going by many names: Rolly Mingwald, Chrome Cobra, O2Star. He's from the Planet Zaxxon. Welcome Agave Maria to #BostonBitdown! If chip, Space Jam & MS-DOS had a kid, They would be Agave Maria. This synth maniac has found a 2nd home w/@BOSTON8BIT. We <3 him & claim him as our own. 100% B8B certified!

The Civil War in France playing music backed by a rainbow flag in a white room superimposed over a variation on the BostonBitdown theme and logo under the words " a 3 day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025"

Sacre Bleu! Philly based The Civil War in France is playing #BostonBitdown! Passing every vibe check, Gay as hell ✅ Criminally Trans ✅ Savage chip bangers ✅ Civil War’s LP “There You Are!” just dropped & Theses girls are hitting up Boston to wreck this town w/ screamo in 2025!

Roboctopus performing with a couple gameboys and a mixer superimposed over a variation on the BostonBitdown logo and theme below the words "a 3 day chiptune / digital fusion festival march 6 - 8 2025"

Welcome @roboctopus.bsky.social to #BostonBitdown! There’s no frills or flair only authentic LSDJ bangers (2 Game Boys & an M8 if you’re nasty). This Alabama based artist is fresh off his new EP, “summerfade”. It’s gonna be catfish meets clam chowdah at BostonBitdown!