The March of the Bit Brigade: After doing this job for so long, it’s good to know that it’s still possible to be surprised, to see something that feels completely different. With that in mind, Athens, ...

Bit Brigade transforms plonky 8-bit Nintendo music into a spectacle of squealing prog rock virtuosity. Although this may sound like a novelty act, the band’s prodigious talent has earned them critical ...

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I’ll bet you never thought gaming could be a part of performance art. I never would have thought it could be either, and if it somehow was, I would have expected it to be sort of lame, not ...

Classic video game soundtracks for titles like the original Contra, Metroid and the Mega Man series may just sound like simple beeps and boops, but these songs are so complex and meticulous that ...

"Nerdgasm" is a word invented for Bit Brigade and a thing that happens pretty much constantly during one of the band's intense shows, which are the perfect marriage of two worlds. Bit Brigade is a ...

Bit Brigade could be more famous if they wanted to be. They're a five-man rock band, but one of their members doesn't play an instrument — instead, he speedruns through a classic NES game while the ...

"We watched the moment of defeat," Neil Young sings, "Played back over on the video screen." If there was ever a band that took that lyric from Young's perennial 1992 closer "Natural Beauty" to heart, ...

Bit Brigade is a rock band with a very particular job: play a complete video game soundtrack, start to finish, in real time, while their fifth member speedruns the game live on stage. The Athens, ...

Like a lot of rock bands, Bit Brigade of Athens, Ga., has a couple of guitar players, a bassist and a drummer. Unlike a lot of bands, Bit Brigade also has a player. His name is Noah McCarthy and he's ...

Eder is a journalism major at the University of Oregon and copy chief of Flux, the School of Journalism and Communication's flagship magazine. When he's not playing video games or writing about them, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 6—Bit Brigade transforms plonky 8-bit Nintendo music into a spectacle of squealing prog rock virtuosity. Although this may ...