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The Baron will see you now. Don’t keep him waiting… Traveling through space & time to bring Boston the chiptune of 20XX, join Dr. Wilde, Billy Lightning, Commander Robert Bruce Murphy,& The Baron as they ride the waves of their newest album, FUTUREPROOF, right to Boston Bitdown 2026!

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!

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!

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

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.

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

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

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!!

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

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

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

Some more shots from Boston Bitdown @ultradeluxe.bsky.social @grazcore.com @donutshoes.bsky.social @nullsleep.bsky.social @geekbeatradio.bsky.social @battlemode.bsky.social #Chiptune #Chiptunes #LSDJ #famitracker #VGMusic #VGM #BostonBitdown

"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...

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... @ifitstooloud.com @battlemode.bsky.social @geekbeatradio.bsky.social

That was awesome.

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 @battlemode.bsky.social @geekbeatradio.bsky.social

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... @battlemode.bsky.social @geekbeatradio.bsky.social

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... @bostonglobe.com @battlemode.bsky.social @geekbeatradio.bsky.social

LINK w/BostonBitdown fest info! Thanks @boston.com!!! www.boston.com/things-to-do...

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

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 '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

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

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!

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

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!

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.

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

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!

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

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!

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!

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!

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!

Are they good enough, cool enough? Does their music suck? Or are they just a fuc…Not dead yet! We’ll squeeze some more bleep bloop from Indiana Joe @ #BostonBitdown! ATL knows this band as the Peach State’s authority on DIY 8bit. Now Boston will get to thrive in the bit waves of Indiana Joe!

The final #BreakBleeps #BitRave addition is @floorbaba.bsky.social who combines EDM w/elements of almost every other genre to create a signature sound. A pluswav team member, their behind the music of indie games “Egg Squeeze” “Yars Rising” & “Vitamin Connection” Give them their flowers 🌼

As we enter the coldest, darkest months let #BostonBitdown be the light waiting for you in March🌷in the light awaits chip royalty @nmlstyl.bsky.social She’s been tagging Philly up & down to let chumps know Philly is her city! Who knows? She might take Boston over too! Early Bird passes on sale now!

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Welcome @diamondmachine.bsky.social to #BostonBitdown! Hot off a new EP “Just booping around” & BOSTON8BIT certified. you might recognize them as ½ of badware, co-host for years @geekbeatradio.bsky.social , helping run some of the original Mag chipspace open mics, or collabs with digitalsoup!

Welcome Kings of Vegas chip Decaying Tigers to #BostonBitdown Their 1st performance on the east coast! Staples of official sin city anime & The Happiest Place on Earth Double Down Saloon, they've even played #LifeIsBeautiful! Catch them shred live in March get early bird tickets @ BostonBitdown.com

20% Taco Bell 20% BTJones 100% metal VGM bangers & 100% playing #BostonBitdown for our VGM PowerHour (or Two) lineup. PVD based heavy hitter @LameGenieVGM invoke the power of Slayer headbanging to MegaMan2 tracks + you'll finally hear Gilbert Gottfried announce the Mortal Kombat Champions

Now that’s what I call DANGER! Welcome Magnificent Dangerto BostonBitdown’s VGM Power Hour (Or Two). Bostonians know this behemoth as the brass band that fills our streets with mega VGM classics,& now we want to share Magnificent Danger with Boston Bitdown audiences!!

Here at #BostonBitdown we wanna showcase the OGs, the established, & the fresh faces. They may be new, but they're already sweeping the scene Welcome Koji Kompote Band to BostonBitdown's VGM Power Hour (Or Two)! They bring jazz oriented signatures to your favorite VGM soundtracks

Sure, Bitdown is a chiptune/digital fusion fest, but we gotta pay tribute to our VGM fam! This week we will be announcing the 3 artists performing at Sat afternoon’s VGM Power Hour (or 2) - each with their own signature approach to VGM. Early bird tickets available at BostonBitdown.com

Blueberry is back baby, and they’re coming to #BostonBitdown!! This 8bit backyard indie trio (4-piece if you count the Game Boy) just came out of their 3-year hiatus full-swing, dropping their return LP, “Blueberry (II)” amplifying the chiptune sound to the Los Angeles music scene!

Hey Boston…..😏 See you March 6-8 at Boston Bitdown.