Once you’ve finished watching the latest 8-Bit Music Theory video on “To Zanarkand” from #FFX indulge yourself in @finalfantasypod.bsky.social ‘s episode of Phoenix Downbeat where we join the music with a story analysis, revealing how Uematsu tells the game’s entire plot in one song #gamemusic

First lifer of 2026, a wonderful Eastern Screech-Owl! #birding #coloradobirds #owls #lifer #getoutside #coloradowildlife #touchgrass

Happy New Year, Traveler Enter this year with the intention of being kind, helping those in need, and supporting your communities

The best NPD yet -- a custom utility pedal! The folks at Saturnworks were great to work with, getting me an Airship Overdrive-branded Order Switcher pedal, showcased here with the #FF7 battle theme Which do you prefer? Distortion first, or Phaser first?? #guitarpedals #saturnworks #phaser

Oooohh what delightful little device do we have here? #guitarpedals #custom

🎤Phoenix Downbeat: Snow & Ice Music of #FinalFantasy ☃️What makes something sound like winter? What makes a musical theme sound cold? We listen to: ❄️Buried in Snow #FFVII | Lake Macalania #FFX | Xarcabard #FFXI❄️ 🎶+ 3 mystery tracks from across the series 🎄Walking through a winter wonderland!

Fellow #Switch players, some awesome games for <$5 on sale right now that also feature great music 🥷 The Messenger 🖼️ GRIS 🏔️ Celeste 🥾 A Short Hike 🗿 Bastion 🎲 Dicey Dungeons

Hold up, hold up… @atnathanyaffe.bsky.social has entire playlists of video game guitar covers? Allow me to introduce myself 👾🎸

Traveling soon? Consider listening to “Travelers”, a full-length concept album of video game music covers performed 100% on live guitar and percussion! 🎸👾🎮 It retells the Hero’s Journey through music from Octopath Traveler, FFVII, DKC2, Celeste, Journey, and more Enjoy! #gamemusic #traveling

Happy 21/12 Rush Day! My wife’s wedding-day present to me was a framed gold pressing of the “2112” album itself, which I still proudly hang in my office to this day! Still worth a listen today. #Rush #RushDay

Wake up babe, new music genre just dropped #cabincore

Phoenix Downbeat: Otherworld (FFX) ⚔️ #FinalFantasy goes heavy metal! 🎸 @airship-overdrive.bsky.social guides us through distortion/guitar techniques & FINALLY gets to play guitar on the show! 📖 Plus, we break down the lyrics to Nobuo Uematsu's loudest masterpiece 🎶AN OTHERWORLD AWAITS YOU!!!🎶

So many hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides (help!) Greatly enjoying my play of Octopath Traveler 0 so far. "The Festival" theme heard here with all the drive coming from the @avlmusictools.bsky.social AFG-1, a surprisingly great drive on its own! #guitarpedals #gamemusic #Octopath

Octopath Traveler Zero, first impressions after ~13hr: 🎨Same great aesthetics and battle system as the first two games 📜Dialog is a bit heavy on “as you know” exposition, but generally moves nicely 🌾The mini Stardew elements are great and give a good basis for the single-protagonist story focus

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

Happy anniversary to Final Fantasy V, released on this day in 1992! Enjoy this short cover of the best song from FFV through one of my favorite pedal combos, synth > zero-through flanger #guitarpedals #guitareffects #finalfantasy #battlemusic #Uematsu

🚨NOW AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY!!!🚨 (Please follow us on your favorite podcast app!) 🎶In this first episode of our NEW series discovering the music of #FinalFantasy Ryan Laney of @airship-overdrive.bsky.social joins us to do a DEEP DIVE breakdown of Liberi Fatali from Final Fantasy VIII:

We and @airship-overdrive.bsky.social listen to OVER 20 pieces of overworld music, mostly from non #FinalFantasy RPGs from 1986-2018 A myriad of composers (including Koji Kondo, Yasunori Mitsuda, & Yoko Shimomura) showcase their brilliance in scoring the vibe of a world youtu.be/b9saWNRj6uI?...

Super Game Music Fest was a success! Big thank you to the Boulder Public Library for allowing us to host such a niche little event for our local communities and sharing something we're passionate about. #livemusic #BoulderCO #gamemusic #Coloradomusic #libraries

🕹️🎵🎸 TODAY!!! Super Game Music Festival at the Canyon Theater in Boulder, CO, 1-4pm featuring 5 great video game cover acts including @audiomocha.com @pandorasbread.bsky.social @zeldarocks.bsky.social @airship-overdrive.bsky.social @chunderfins.bsky.social No charge, stay as you please! 🎹👾🎧

Boulder, CO video game fans, TOMORROW is the day!! 👾🎵🎮 Come check out the Super Game Music Festival, Sun 11/30, 1-4pm at the Canyon Theater near the CU campus. Five great game music cover acts🎸🕹️🎹 🆓 No charge ⛰️ Stay as long as you please ♨️ Warm toasty theater 🎼 Great #gamemusic live See you there!

No, not Boulder Canyon -- The Canyon Theater in Boulder, CO!! (though I do love Diddy Kong Racing...) 🎮👾 This Sunday 11/30, 1-4pm at the Canyon Theater in Boulder, CO right by the CU campus, come join us for the Super Game Music Festival! No charge, 5 great VGM cover bands, stay as long as you like

If you’re around #Boulder Colorado this weekend, come check out the Super Game Music Festival at the Canyon Theater, Sun 11/30 from 1-4pm!! 👾🎮🎶 5 great video game cover bands performing, including myself. No charge, stay as long as you like, get involved locally! My #pedalboard for the show below

Finally carved out time to play through “Her Story”, a fantastic ~3-hour story game about uncovering the details of a murder through interrogation clips. Recommended by @claytonashley.bsky.social and @gamemakerstoolkit.com My “notebook” notes below (spoilers!) for those curious #indiegames

Ok hear me out… Pampered Chef parties but instead it’s all guitar pedals and everyone gets to try guitar pedals

Video game fans in the Boulder/Denver area! Mark your calendars for the Super Video Game Music Festival!! Sunday Nov 30, 1-4pm at the Canyon Theater right by the Pearl Street Mall. Enjoy live performances from 5 great video game music cover artists including yours truly! #BoulderCO #GameMusic

Me turning on the power supply after a complete pedalboard transplant

In case anyone needs a gift idea for your favorite guitar pedal-centric video game cover band frontman… 👀👀👀 👾🎮

Fantastic interview as always with Jamie from Earthquaker Devices, conducted by Products of Music. Really happy one of my questions was chosen to be asked (the “Eureka! moment” one), not surprised at all by his answer! Support small businesses, make good music 🎶 🎸 #guitarpedals #EQD

Envelope-filtered delays?? The Empress Echosystem does it! Enjoy this short section of "Theme of a Moonlit Night" from #Suikoden complete with a clean dry signal and a "wah" style dynamic envelope filter on the delays #GuitarPedals #GuitarEffects #GameMusic

Who’s ready to learn how synthesizers work via Final Fantasy music?! Had a blast recording this episode and talking about synths, vco’s, and polarity phase shift 🎹🧲🎵⚡️ #gamemusic #ff8 #ffviii #synths #synthsky

Yup, even in Colorado we’re getting insane views of the Northern Lights. Even with the light pollution, easy to see! #AuroraBorealis

New lifer, the Least Bittern! A super-rare sighting in my neck of the woods They truly are the “least” of their grouping, less than a quarter the size I expected. Do you see it? #birds #birding #lifer #COwildlife

Game music fans in the #BoulderCO area, we’re only 3 weeks away from the Super Video Game Music Festival!! Sunday, Nov 30 at the Canyon Theater, featuring these fine acts (including yours truly) and hosted by @audiomocha.com Event link in this thread, come one, come all! #gamemusic #Boulder

Hey @joelcorelitz.bsky.social is there any way to acquire sheet music for the soundtrack to The Unfinished Swan? I recently played through it and really enjoyed the music 🦢

@airship-overdrive.bsky.social guides us through the epic-in-scope overworld music for #FinalFantasy VII, the odd and alien music of "Blue Fields" for FFVIII and then we "Cross Those Hills" into FFIX. Plus, we hear more Studio Ghibli, Chrono Trigger AND Cross, and BATMAN!

Fans of zero-through flanger unite

The latest DEVO documentary is on Netflix now, and I *highly* recommend it to anyone interested in the music industry of the 70’s and 80’s Particularly interesting to see how the Kent State incident and Dadaism directly affected how Mothersbaugh and crew approached performance art #documentary

Fingers crossed that it's going to be a good week 🤞 Keep pushing forward, traveler. My own take on Nishiki's amazing "Octopath Traveler Main Theme" recorded 100% on live guitar and percussion. Starts soft, ends strong. #guitarpedals #gamemusic #octopathtraveler

Just played the demo for Minishoot Adventures from SoulGame Studio. Really, really fun little combo of twin-stick shooter, bullet-hell, and 2D adventure in a slick package with great controls. Very few complaints on this little gem, easy wishlist. #IndieGames #TwinStick

The main melody to the "Ghost Valley" tracks from Super Mario Kart on the SNES. The Catalinbread Perseus DIO is feeding two additional sub octaves of synthy grit into the Walrus R1 Reverb on 'Air' mode with the high, wispy sustains maxed out. Happy Halloween! #GuitarPedals #GameMusic #TooSpooky

A great analysis we did here of 2 otherworldly and intense themes from Final Fantasy VI right around the moment that main villain… actually wins? Themes from “Magitek Research Facility” and “Floating Continent” both utilizing hyper-programmatic music and effects #FinalFantasy #GameMusic #Kefka

As the wonderful @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social reminded us all recently, “Don’t forget, this isn’t the end of the story; this is the middle of the story.” 💙

Catching some @v0oid.tv streams of SMRPG today reminded me of this tasty lick I recorded a while back Performed through the CatalinBread Perseus DIO, Tone Charm SNES Fuzz, AMpT AFG-1, and Empress Phaser for absolute crunchy synth goodness #guitarpedals #SMRPG #speedrun #gamemusic

The only production where you can see Gandalf, Emperor Palpatine, M, Muldoon, and the Sheriff of Rottingham share a stage #thescottishplay

Enjoying the newest entry in the #Katamari series? These games have such unique and fun soundtracks that I had to include a song from the original Katamari Damacy as the closing track on Airship’s debut album Performed entirely on guitar through effects pedals. Enjoy! #gamemusic

Overworld music of Final Fantasy IV, V, & VI (Terra's Theme!) including alternative overworld themes showing Nobuo Uematsu's growth as a musician and storyteller We compare once again to Studio Ghibli as well as Xenogears and Eiyuden Chronicle #finalfantasy #finalfantasymusic #ffiv #ffv #ffvi

Getting excited for #Kirby Air Riders? Take a nostalgia trip into one of my favorite tracks from the Gamecube original, "Top Ride - Fire" Heard here with the LPD Pedals Lucent (boosted bass, added overdrive guitar), BOSS SY-1, and Walrus ACS1 for that heavy, thumpy feel #GuitarPedals #AirRiders

Finally watched this classic among the original spooky season films. Not to be *that* guy, but… the book is better #Dracula

The Overworld music for Final Fantasy II, The Promised Land, mirrors the events of the game by slowly falling apart as we listen: