For those of you who attended the first X-Bit show, you know how awesome it was. Are you ready for Round 2!? We’re going to rock it even harder this week so join us again for X-Bit Part 2: Revenge of X-Bit, THIS FRIDAYApril 6 at Pink Gorilla U-District. In case you haven’t heard, X-Bit is an all-new series of Read more...

Wha-wha-whaaaat?? Just when you thought CrunchyCo was dead, here we are at the forefront of the next big thing in chiptune this side of the coast. You didn’t think we’d abandon you, did you? CrunchyCo is working in collaboration with Bookr (some of the guys behind Seattle’s famous Decibel Festival) to gather the hottest chiptune talent around and wrap it Read more...

Just happened at Ground Kontrol in Portland last night featuring Ondoh, Plain Flavored, Mechlo, Seanbad, Oven Rake, and Operation Mission. Unfortunately we did not attend. BUT, if you couldn’t make it either, we found some footage of the action on the interwebs. Looks like they had a pretty sweet laser show! Check it:

A new track from local boy-man and friend of Crunchy, Oven Rake has found its way onto 8bitcollective in the last couple days. To be honest, I don’t know that I ever noticed him to have anything in the way of facial hair, but here it is for your listening pleasure, Shaved My Face, trying his best “not to rip off Read more...

For those of you who don’t know, Shiftwave is a West-Coast chiptune celebration that has evolved from humble beginnings in 2008 as a little event called “Chipfest.” Since then, it has been re-named, re-organized, and re-vamped to be better than ever. Taking over Seattle’s Vera Project for the second time, Shiftwave 2010 is sure to bring a unique line-up of Read more...