Blip Festival

Thrift-store electronics collide with dancefloor sensibilities as Blip Festival makes its long-awaited return to New York City. Produced by 8bitpeoples in association with The Tank and Live Nation, the Blip Festival 2012 finds Manhattan once again at the center of the chipmusic universe…

Photographer Leia Jospe accompanied Anamanaguchi on a trip to Japan where they played Tokyo’s own version of the Blip Festival along with Nullsleep and others…

This year‘s Blip Festival was thrown at Eyebeam on New York City’s West Side by a collective of chip musicians called 8bitpeoples, with help from NYC nonprofit The Tank…

Anamanaguchi @ SXSW (more by Tim Griffin)Matthew Hawkins: Chip music seems to have really gone far in the past few years, especially the ones with you and the rest of the gang being active…

Peelander-Z at The Studio in January (more by Leia Jospe) Welcome home Peelander-Z! The NYC band is finally home after an extended tour with Anamanaguchi that kicked off at SXSW and ended on April 30th…

tonight in NYC * Ronnie Spector @ BB King’s * Mos Def @ Highline Ballroom * Currituck County @ The Stone * Blip Festival alumni show @ Pianos * Soft Black, Wide Eyed Beauty @ Death By Audio * Uninhabitable Mansions, Pocket Knife @ The Cameo * Matisyahu, Kevin Devine @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Lucy Wainwright Roche w/ Family & Friends @ City Winery * The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (DJ) @ Insound Design Store * The Willowz, Fan-Tan, Kill Kill Kill, Plumsucker @ Mercury Lounge * Anamanaguchi, Starpause, IAYD, Magic Hammer, 8BK @ Public Assembly * Theo Angell, Jozef Van Wissem, Grasshopper, Ghost Moth @ Silent Barn * Bryan & The Haggards, Bobby Radcliff Trio, Elliot Sharpe 3, Jahn Xavier @CakeShop * This Frontier Needs Heroes, Justice of the Unicorn, Class Actress, Cat Martino @ Union Pool Didn’t get enough blip…

tonight in NYC * Hanukkah * Blip Festival * The Weight @ Union Pool * Antibalas @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn * Larkin Grimm, David Garland @ The Stone * Small Black (DJ) @ Insound Design Store * ACME plays John Cage & Phil Kline @ The Tank * Matisyahu, Kid Koala @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Contact…

Tonight (12/17) at the Tank, American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) perform music from Phil Kline and John Cage (two earlier works, String Quartet in Four Parts and Credo In Us)…

REFORMAT THE PLANET is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as chip tunes, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using old video game hardware…

DOWNLOAD: Nullsleep – Fearless Flight (MP3) Archaic game and home computer hardware is recast into the unlikely role of musical instrument and motion graphics workstation in the BLIP FESTIVAL 2008, a four-day event showcasing nearly 40 musicians and visual artists occupying the international low-res cutting edge…