As is tradition, we celebrate Pride Month by adding music to Rainwave from queer games and artists. Selections from Dungeon Gals, Little Goody Two Shoes, Chickie Catchers, Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, and Detamine! -Feel Our Determination!- are now streaming. Give them some love. 💜

Our Chill channel has been bolstered with albums from GENTLE LOVE, the Norihiko Hibino + Ayaki Saito collaboration. If you like pianos and soft saxophones and music that makes you feel like you're looking out a rainy window, grateful for your warm cocoa and comfy home, you can hear it *right now*.

Even more new music, as the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Orchestral Arrangement Album hits our Covers channel. Plus: the 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Remix & Arrange Album is here! Great news for Basiscape fans.

Jake Kaufman's soundtrack to the brand new indie game Mina the Hollower is now in the Rainwave library! Please enjoy this alongside other new additions like The Legend of Legacy and Gunlord, plus recent Chill albums including Pokemon D/P/P and Kaze no Notam!

A new week brings new music, as our Chill channel is bolstered with selections from games like Earthbound, flOw, Blinx, Chocobo's Dungeon, APICO, A-Train 6, and more! You could tune in *right now* and hear those songs, if you had the guts. Do it. Click the link. You won't.

Bonus update this week courtesy of Tom! The long-awaited Mario Kart World soundtrack will go live on Rainwave this Wednesday! We've got 52 songs coming in from it, it's ridiculous how vastly it covers the legacy of Mario music. This took quite a while to prepare, so please enjoy!

New music! Please listen to Machine Child, it's literally Shibuya-kei NieR. We've also got Jamphibious' funky little soundtrack for Little Frog Game, selections from Hakita's Ultrakill OSTs, a set of period pieces from Circuit Superstars, and Guardian's Crusade for some reason.

New chiptunes on Rainwave! Featuring: 8BIT MUSIC POWER, Verytex, Bonanza Bros., Toho Chiptune Jigoku, Action Fighter, The Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper, and Gianluca "Giacashi" Sciacca's Golden FamiSun. There are like ten different sound chips represented here, so surely you'll like one of them.

There's a ton of new music this week on our recently introduced Chill channel, including Miitopia, Baba Is You, Blue Prince, Pokemon Black/White, Octodad, Sonic Mega Collection, Hollow Knight, A Little to the Left, Endless Space, Mouthwashing, Tekken 7, and even more I can't fit within the post limi

New Covers channel music on Rainwave this week! Enjoy the Final Fantasy XII Piano Collections, some really '80s Rockman arrangements, a Touhou jazz album, and selections from United Tribute Arrange Force's SpeedSTARS -a Ridge Racer tribute album-. Tune in 10 minutes from now to hear it all featured!

Tune in to Rainwave on April 1st for a fun game of Spot the Difference! Can you identify the @highquality.rip songs hidden in the event playlist? Check it out at 11:00 London time (that's six hours from now) or at 11:00 Pacific time (fourteen hours from now), and jump into our Discord to play along!

New this week on the Game channel on Rainwave: the absolutely stunning digital fusion soundtrack to Chiki's Chase, the funky collectathon throwback New Super Lucky's Tale, tense piano from Stella of The End, bitcrushed hard rock from Rakugakids, and that weird Magic Knight Rayearth Saturn OST.

We've been busy expanding Rainwave's new Chill channel with a lot of music additions over the last two weeks. Games like Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, Kirby Air Riders, Little Kitty, Big City, Rain World, and many more, plus the Zelda Classics and Zelda & Sleep albums. Turn on; tune in; nod off.

NEW MUSIC O RLY? YA RLY Beautiful Katamari Senko no Ronde Eternal Poison Kirby's Blowout Blast Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee

New additions to Rainwave for a (lunar) new year! Astral Ascension, Astral Ascent, Mars First Logistics, Star Gagnant, Star Ixiom, and Astro's Playroom are now in stable orbit!

Very excited to announce that Rainwave now has a Chill station! Our first new stream in 15 years, it's a curated collection of relaxed/lo-fi/chill songs to vibe to, with all of Rainwave's normal features underneath. See our Discord for the full announcement and check out the new section of the site!

You may be noticing some instability on Rainwave as we endure ten years worth of software updates at once. The site may be slightly out of sync with what you hear - just pretend you're Nic Cage in the movie Next. If any streams go offline entirely or other bugs occur, please let us know on Discord.

The wait is over: Goddess of Victory: Nikke is breasting boobily onto Rainwave with 43 songs selected from its infinitely vast soundtrack. From chipper rock music with ultra clean guitars to dramatic orchestras, heavy metal, and chiptunes, it's quite a spread.

Day 5 of Baby Park-A-Thon! More karting, OC Remix tunes & a NEW EMOTE inspired from my AGDQ run. 899 / 1825 races completed 926 races left 30:21:55 total time Enabling the Twitch 35% sub gift discount today, tomorrow & Sunday as they're getting refreshed in February.

New this week on Rainwave: - Selected Persona and Shin Megami Tensei songs covered by Bi Score - Danceable electronic Final Fantasy remixes from VISION◆SQUARE - Diverse shmup arrangements from the Kiku ga Yoi. doujin album - The World of Ruin EP from VGM cover forerunners Year 200X

If you're confused and disoriented by the new year, consider fast-forwarding it by listening to Blinx: The Time Sweeper, or one of the other new soundtracks added to Rainwave this week which include Grinsia, To a T, Quiz Magic Academy V, and Akatsuki Blitzkampf.* *Pending FDA approval

Quench your ears with the new soundtracks on Rainwave this week! Amazing arrangements from Mario Kart 8 mod CTGP Deluxe have arrived, as well as Touhou 12.5, Generation Xth, Hanakisou, and tohomoko's great digital fusion soundtrack for indie game Shadow Trick. Hear them all Monday at 11 a.m. PST!

New chiptunes on the radio this week! The classic Sega arcade title Quartet, excellent authentic work from the fan game Mega Man: Super Fighting Robot, Soyo Oka's OST for VS. Excitebike, and a pair of fun PC-88/98 soundtracks in Elm Knight and POWER DoLLS. Check them out!

I got distracted by a car accident, so no new music this week. Instead, tune in tomorrow (Nov. 10th) at 11 a.m. PST for an hour of recently added selections which don't have enough user ratings to show a global average. Like Caesar in the Colosseum, you alone control these songs' fates. 👍 / 👎 / 👉👌

aaaaa a bunch of people followed us and I realized I've been forgetting to post about new music. Last week we added fan arrangements of Touhou, Sonic, Castlevania, and Undertale - see the attached images. Stay tuned next weekend for new chiptunes. You can always join the Discord for more details!

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This week, selections from Azure Striker Gunvolt, Tokimeki Memorial 2, and Bloons TD Battle 2 have been added to Rainwave, as well as music from incredible fan project Sonic Riders Tournament Edition!

The soundtracks to Kabuto Park, Cobalt Core, Loop8: Summer of Gods, Wolf Fang: Kuuga 2001, and Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Innocent Black are new on Rainwave this week! Tune in in an hour to hear the full block of new selections back-to-back.

A bunch of new music this week from insaneintherainmusic, Lame Genie, and The 8-Bit Big Band! Check it out!

August may be hot, but we're keeping things cool with new chill music additions: Zelda & Chill II & III, Samus & Chill, Souls & Chill, Chilltendo Deluxe, and The World Is Square's Square Love all came to the Covers channel this month. Look forward to more relaxing music in a new project this fall!

Enjoy some new covers this week from acoustic Zelda band Dog Food For Bananas, as well as albums from their violinist @roninopf.bsky.social and their pianist @angrypolarbear.bsky.social! (also some unrelated bonus Splatoon stuff) Big thanks to these guys, very excited to share their tunes!

Today, Rainwave is 18 years old. That's kind of crazy. Much appreciation to everybody who's tuned in over the years! There aren't a lot of remnants of the old internet anymore, and I'm glad we can keep this going. (Also, happy pride month! Stay tuned for new queer music later in June.)

New this week: enjoy some tasty, groovy covers by Bi Score, some Tales of Phantasia metal covers from Unknown Pseudoartist and friends, and some Ace Combat series arrangements just in time for its 30th anniversary.

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Sega Saturn's North American launch, enjoy some new selections from the Burning Rangers soundtrack, to be highlighted in a Saturn tribute playlist Monday at 11 a.m. PST and Tuesday at 10 a.m. UTC. We need more Saturn music around here.

New soundtracks this week: - Puzzle & Dragons - Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth - Astal - Rapid River - Yakuman DS

New this week: chiptune soundtracks from Sega's Body Slam, Konami's Parodius, Falcom's Sorcerian, and, uh, somebody's Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Okhotsk ni Kiyu. Also, tune in tomorrow morning at 11 am PST or the following morning at 10 am UTC for a show celebrating Majora's Mask's 25th anniversary!

Everybody makes mistakes, even Rainwave's listeners when they unjustly reject perfectly cromulent music over concerns about "quality" and "hearing damage". Tune in tomorrow, April 1st, at 10 a.m. UTC or 11 a.m. PST, for Songs from the Rain Cellar, a showcase of music *too hot* for the radio.

Tune in in 9.5 hours (or again in 25.5 hours) to hear new soundtrack selections from KanColle, Akai Ito, RetroMania Wrestling, Super Off Road, and Sega Bass Fishing. There's something for everyone, as long as they like one of those five things.

I keep forgetting to post here; apologies! Anyway, new Chiptune music this week from the Mega Man series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Rush'n Attack, Star Gagnant, and the wonderful Namachuukei 68 OST (thanks to @t4n3.bsky.social for inspiration!). Power Hours Monday 11 am PST / Tuesday 10 am GMT

hi we got some new music 2day frm G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra and also Gran Turismo 2 and Energy Breaker and Gradius Gaiden and Heaven's Gate, so if u like badass Tee Lopes tunes or sick jazz or SNES rock or Atlus or shmups u should totaly check it out tmrw in Power Hr @ 11am PST or tuesday @ 10am GMT

Tune in today to hear new additions from Genshin Impact, Guardian Angel, Plus Alpha, Alpine Surfer, and Super Adventure Island II!

New soundtracks added today: - Graffiti Kingdom (Yasunori Mitsuda tunes) - Vantage Master (Falcom jdk tunes) - Asterix (Arcade) (Konami Kukeiha Club tunes) - Tenerezza (inexplicably Japanese-exclusive Xbox tunes) - Nitronic Rush ('80s synth rock tunes) - Street Boyz (tasty hard rock tunes)

Happy 2025! Very excited to add new music this week from the inimitable VGM klezmer band Glitch Kibbitz. Also new: ThePlasmas' Mega Man 6 album, Falcom Acoustics 2, Undertale String Quartet, and salvation by faith records' We Bros. X. Tune in Monday 11 a.m. PDT or Tuesday 2 a.m. PDT to hear it all!

During 2024, Rainwave added more than 1,100 new songs across more than 160 albums - more than 32 hours of music. Tune in today at 11 a.m. Pacific / 2 p.m. Eastern to hear highlights we added throughout the year. (Non-US folk, you'll get yours at 10 a.m. GMT - that's in ~22.5 hours.) Happy New Year!

New Chiptune music today, including Panic Restaurant, Aqua Kitty, and much more! Did you know? We have a Discord server with in-depth and unhinged posts about new music, including audio versions by professional newscaster Salty. This week's is even done like a news show! Check it out! Link in bio!

It's been a tough day for everyone, and the news out of Pennsylvania is hard to cope with. Join us tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time for a special #Luigi themed Power Hour featuring old favourites and new additions from his first outing, Mario Is Missing!, as we get through this together.

New music day! We've got selections from some of the biggest games of the last year: Elder Gate, Meltylancer, Princess Maker, and more! Hear them now, or tune in tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time (or again at a Euro-friendly 10:00 a.m. UTC) to hear all the new songs played uninterrupted.