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Halloween eve and we have an announcement, but on who, it's a mystery. You've heard her bleepbloops coming from the shadows. There's lore about the legendary chiptune empire she built but it would be impossible to feel her greatest glitches, unless: Please welcome Muzak Efron to Boston Bitdown!

we are just getting started!!

Hot Ziggity! It’s Gosh Diggity! Chicago’s chiptune astronauts traveling to Boston via rocketship! This midwest kitchen techno trio is chiptune’s gift to the world. Listen to Gosh Diggity’s summer LP, “Good Luck! Have Fun” and buy your early bird 4 day passes to BOSTON BITDOWN 2!

Boston Bitdown 2 chiptune, vgm, & nerdcore fest Photo of the artist Problems

Are we gonna have some PROBLEMS here?

Yes we are. Please welcome PROBLEMS to the Boston Bitdown lineup! This Chicago electronic shaman enchants electronic shapes & mesmerizes with light patterns of the Ableton Push. We're locked in with PROBLEMS…Earlybird 4day passes on sale NOW! bostonbitdown.com

Boston Bitdown 2 Chiptune, vgm, & nerdcore fest The performer Watch Out For Snakes plays keytair

Ready for a night ride? Let Snakes take the wheel. This 8-bit synthwave warlock brings out the sexy, brooding, neon to your heart. This Atlanta boy is slithering up to Boston Bitdown equipped with his ruby keytar & jean jacket. Sit back and let the smokey synth take over.

Boston Bitdown 2 Chiptune, VGM, & Nerdcore fest Image of Bill Beats seated and Shubzilla leaning Text reads Shubzilla Bill Beats

Chiptune will always be our #1, but we need more: we need nerdcore! Let’s break the mold with Shubzilla x Bill Beats! Straight outta Seattle + powered by NOIR GRIME, Shubzilla x Bill Beats crash into Boston Bitdown like a pixelated tidal wave with 8-bit fury with 16-bar precision

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Boston Bitdown 2 Chiptune, VGM & Nerdcore fest Image of three women in dresses sitting and leaning together Text under reads "Goof Goblin"

Making one last stop delivering their 2nd EP tour, Goof Goblin: Enter the Pizza Verse, these queer, trans, rage-filled Brooklyn Game Girlies are coming to Boston Bitdown to stir carnage and look hot! They're punk, nu-metal, and most importantly #CHIPTUNE!
Get hype for GOOF GOBLIN!
#BostonBitdown

Ad for Boston Bitdown 2 - Chiptune, vgm, & nerdcore fest with an image blurred photo of an artist playing gameboy captioned Boy Without Batteries

Let’s get this Boston Bitdown 2 lineup started. It’s Boy Without Batteries! From the depths of the Florida swamp, Boy Without Batteries is back and he's bringing the heat with him. Armed with a .45 caliber Gameboy, this Florida man knows how to rip a chip AND wrestle a gator! #BostonBItdown #LSDJ

here we go!!

YouTube video by Robby Roadsteamer - Topic When I Sell My Song to Batman 3

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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
#BostonBitdown #Chiptune #Chiptunes #Boston #LiveMusic

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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#Chiptune #Chiptunes #LSDJ #famitracker #VGMusic #VGM #BostonBitdown

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.

⚡ www.wbur.org

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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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ya I think bluesky maybe doesn't like the link without www or https
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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!