Latest Gamemusic Podcast Episodes
Episode 112 – High Score Jamz
XVGM Radio - May 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHigh score rankings have been a thing since the 70s in video games. But the music layered behind them didn’t really pick up until the 80s. Justin and Mike examine these tunes to explore the eastern vs western comparisons. Eastern composers tend to create much shorter high score music than western...
Episode 111 – Modern Retro Game Music
XVGM Radio - April 17, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsMany of today’s indie and AA developers know their retro. That’s why there’s an abundance of amazing games available for modern platforms which channel the games of our pasts. Thankfully, game composers of the current era haven’t forgotten the roots of VGM either, as the amount of modern games wh...
NMM #120: Resorting to VGM Con with Theology and Vaughn Rowles
Nerd Music Meltdown - April 11, 2024 13:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe're all taking off for the Sunshine Resort at VGM Con! Taking place April 19th-22nd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, VGM Con celebrate video games and music with live performance, panels, and more! We have Vaughn Rowles of VGM Con and The Bards Quartet along with Theology to talk about the VGM Con...
NMM #119: Mason Lieberman's Tournament Arc
Nerd Music Meltdown - March 14, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe have video game and animation composer, musician, and audio producer Mason Lieberman on Nerd Music Meltdown! His credits include PUBG Mobile, One Piece, Made in Abyss, Soundfall, Apex Legends Mobile, RWBY, and more. We talk about his start through Rooster Teeth and their shutdown, how VGM m...
NMM #118: SXSW and Nerdcore Dayz with NOIR GRIME and DJ R.O.C.K.M.A.N.
Nerd Music Meltdown - February 28, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSXSW is coming up in Austin, Texas this March and nerdcore will be repped very hard during the festivities with the official SXSW Nerdcore Showcase on March 16th, as well as the Nerdcore Dayz festival March 13th to 15th. We have Shubzilla, Bill Beats, and DJ R.O.C.K.M.A.N. to break it all dow...
Episode 110 – Musical Therapy: An Interview w/ Norihiko Hibino
XVGM Radio - February 14, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsMusic touches all aspects of the soul. It’s a large part of what makes us human. In tough times or happy moments and everything in between, music can be therapy in many ways and video game music is no different. On today’s episode, we sit down for a chat with Norihiko Hibino and listen to … Read...
NMM #117: MAGFest Prime Recap with Stemage, Katy Scary, and Jimmy from Abandon Quest
Nerd Music Meltdown - February 02, 2024 15:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSuper MAGFest Prime was 4+ days straight of video games, music, partying, and friends. Kent actually worked for the event and has MAGFest performers Stemage (Metroid Metal), Katy Scary (Klaymore), and Jimmy Granger (Abandon Quest) on to talk about the weekend, favorite moments, getting dance pad...
Episode 109 – Emotional Damage VGM w/ Niko Tengoku
XVGM Radio - January 17, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIt’s that time of year again! It’s January in a new year and as always with XVGM Radio, we bring in the big guns: NikoTengoku! Our old pal and honorary third co-host Niko joins us once again to ring in 2024 with a somber note: Emotional VGM. Whether the moments in the games touched our … Read mo...
Episode 41
Broken Chair Scores - January 13, 2024 21:48Welcome to season 5 of the Broken Chair Scores soundtrack podcast. This is the season where we're probably going to go viral. Did you see that we're on Instagram now? Follow us there via this link or find it on our landing page. We're cool now! Tell your friends about it. In this episode we ...
NMM #116: Super MAGFest 2024 preview with 88bit and Dom Palombi
Nerd Music Meltdown - January 11, 2024 14:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHappy 2024! We are kicking off the year strong. Super MAGFest 2024 is NEXT WEEK. There are a lot of new acts performing on main stage for the first time, including 88bit and Dom Palombi. We have both on to talk about their road to MAGFest, what they have planned for the weekend, how they have ...
NMM #115: GameGrooves Strikes Back
Nerd Music Meltdown - December 29, 2023 16:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLast episode of the year! GameGrooves has been cookin' in 2023 and have even more to look forward to in 2024. We have the found of GameGrooves, Allen Brasch, on to talk about how GameGrooves operates these days and the challeneges of running a video game music netlabel. Also, what are we doing a...
Episode 6 - Remastered!
Broken Chair Scores - December 23, 2023 21:24This is 2023 and I'm having some time on my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. This means re-inserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it better. The original music was just recorded as played in the room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into t...
Episode 108 – The NEC PC-FX
XVGM Radio - December 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIn 1994, video game system manufacturers were just starting to shift into the realm of 3D-based video game consoles thanks to the fifth generation. But one company decided to continue building upon the legacy of 2D in the mid-90s with their final console release: NEC. The PC-FX was host to 62 gam...
NMM #114: Mahn and Carrie Escape Hell with Premium Vintage
Nerd Music Meltdown - December 14, 2023 17:45 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMahn and Carrie Wood have formed a new symphonic metal band with Masikus called Premium Vintage. (That's a Hades reference.) They just released their debut album, The Symphony of Hades. And we talk all about that, favorite parts of Hades, the upcoming sequel, possible future projects, Sega Satur...
Episode 107 – Infernax w/ composer Jason Letourneau
XVGM Radio - November 22, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThough Halloween season is over, we’re still playing with gore! XVGM Radio sits down with VGM composer Jason Létourneau to discuss his music in the 8-bit modern retro classic, Infernax. Hear us grill Jason to learn about his process and how some of our favorite modern VGM composers helped him ear...
Episode 40
Broken Chair Scores - November 17, 2023 20:01This is episode 40 which marks the end of season 4 of the Broken Chair Scores podcast. Instead of having the quiz we just play our 5 (actually 6) favorite tracks each from episodes 31 to 39. For reasons concerning this change, listen to the episode. We talk about it on the air. If you want to...
NMM #113: Free Playin' with Lame Genie
Nerd Music Meltdown - November 09, 2023 16:53 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe lads are back on Nerd Music Meltdown to melt your faces off! Lame Genie has been tearing it up at conventions and retro game expos all over the country, dominated YouTube, and dropped a bunch of music and still crank out weekly videos! We talk about what Lame Genie has been up to, their so...
NMM #112: Lacey Johnson Gets Spooky
Nerd Music Meltdown - October 26, 2023 13:41 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Keytar Kween Lacey Johnson just played at TwitchCon and now she is back in Orlando this weekend for the OngakuVania II. We talk about that, favorite spooky games, fighting games, playing all over the place, and managing an intense schedule of releasing music, YouTube videos, performing, and ...
Episode 106 – Spookyfest 2023
XVGM Radio - October 25, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThey’reeeee bacccckkkkkk! The XVGM Radio boys are back for another haunting year of SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOKY songs to celebrate the holiday season! Join Mike and Justin on their 5th annual Spookyfest, complete with crowds cheering them on, buying Poltergust 4000 vacuums and gettin’ their sour pukes on! ...
NMM #111: Ro Panuganti is Sitar Crazy
Nerd Music Meltdown - October 12, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBack on the show is VGM prog rocker Big Ro Panuganti! His new album "SitarCraft" drops October 20th and will have a heavy amount of Indian music influence. We discuss the album, Indian culture and music in video games, being married to another video game musician, Legend of Zelda, playing more l...
NMM #110: The Limit Breakers
Nerd Music Meltdown - September 28, 2023 13:43 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsRepresenting DUUUVAL with pride are Florida fusion rock video game band The Limit Breakers. We have Jisun, Dani, and Lukas on to talk about what the band has been cooking this year. This includes a super successful Twitch fundraiser that got them to VGM CON, how they maintain a band their size, ...
NMM #109: Documenting Marc with a C with Jo Canterbury
Nerd Music Meltdown - September 21, 2023 13:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThere is a Marc with a C documentary coming! Half Serious, Half Kidding: The Digital Footprint of an Obscure Rockstar chronicles 20+ years of Marc with a C's career as well as Orlando music history. Kent talks to director Jo Canterbury about how the documentary came together, how he got to know ...
Episode 105 – The Musical History of Natsume Part 3
XVGM Radio - September 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsContinued from Episodes 99 and 102, Mike and Justin close out the musical history of the developer, Natsume Co. Ltd. After the split between Natsume Co. Ltd. and Natsume Inc, Natsume Co. Ltd. would continue to work on developing games, mostly on the Super NES and eventually handhelds like the Gam...
Episode 39
Broken Chair Scores - August 31, 2023 19:45The second post-Covid live and on-site recording felt just as great as the first one! Join us as we dive deep into the magical world of Outcast, the 1999 Infogrames video game with a soundtrack written by Lennie Moore. This is interlaced with the absolute banger score of Neon Genesis Evangeli...
NMM #108: Bi Scorin' with Ian and Carrie
Nerd Music Meltdown - August 24, 2023 13:09 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe're back from another hiatus and settled into a new studio! Kent gets everyone caught up and brings on the newest, funky video game duo of Ian Cowell and Carrie Wood, otherwise known as Bi Score, to chat about making music for people to score to from TWO different coasts. And being bisexual wh...
Episode 104 – Shantae Tunes
XVGM Radio - August 16, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWayforward’s Shantae on the Game Boy Color was the swansong release on the handheld and the beginning of a franchise in the making. Now, Shantae has not only blossomed into a 5 (soon to be 6) game series, but can be widely considered Queen of the indie game scene. One particular stand out in this...
Episode 103 – Video Pinball VGM
XVGM Radio - July 19, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsPING! BLAM! DING-DING-DING-DING! CH-CHUNK! Pinball certainly has some exciting sounds. Video pinball brings the experience of pinball home to consoles, PCs or on the go. But what rarely gets discussed by video pinball aficionados is how great the music is in these games. Today, we’re getting our ...
Episode 102 – The Musical History of Natsume Part 2: Natsume Inc.
XVGM Radio - June 21, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsContinued from Episode 99, Mike and Justin hit the dusty trail of Natsume’s musical history for a second time to uncover the North American-based publishing (and sometimes development) side of the company. Splitting from Natsume Co. Ltd. in 1995, Natsume Inc. began publishing a wide variety of ga...
Episode 101 – Elevator Action Returns
XVGM Radio - May 24, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsStep into the world of Elevator Action Returns: A place full of guns, explosions and most importantly…elevators! Justin and Mike climb back into the world of Taito’s in house band, Zuntata; more specifically Yasuhisa Watanabe’s stellar soundtrack for this exciting sequel to the original arcade cl...
NMM #107: EyeQ x Substantial are Friends & Fam
Nerd Music Meltdown - May 22, 2023 15:12 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEyeQ and Substantial are in the final week of their Friends and Fam Tour, which goes through MomoCon this weekend and concludes in Orlando on Memorial Day! We talk about the current state of live shows, fun moments of the tour, free comic book day hauls, fan conventions finally embracing black...
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