Hacking The Music Scene With Anamanaguchi

If you have the fortitude to follow me on Twitter, you might know I'm big into music, particularly stuff local to me here in New York. That's why it was particularly fun for me to write this month's Kotaku feature about Anamanaguchi, a great band and all around good bunch of guys who play 8-bit music. I'm a big fan of theirs.

The difference between these guys and the chiptunes you might already be familiar with is that they've got much more of a rock sound -- their focus is equally on guitar, bass, drums and overall rocking out as it is on the sound chip music (they use an NES soundchip). There's some cool overlap, then, between the local rock scene and the chiptune scene -- which overlaps in places, if not totally, with the video game scene. Cross-culture, yay!

Anyway, check out the article and give some of their music a listen. You'll see that I think they're kind of breakthrough artists for a number of reasons, and I'm not the only one who thinks so.

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