Blip Festival 2012, which took place this past Memorial Day weekend, was many things. It was the greatest assemblage of 8-bit musicians from across the globe and on a single stage, for the sixth year ...

When Fuzz launched a microblogging service for music aficionados called Blip.fm last May, no one in the company expected it to rise above the status of an experiment. But before long, Blip.fm’s ...

Chiptune artists at the Blip Festival perform in front of a low-bit video screen. * Photo: Courtesy blipfestival.org * Videogame soundtracks may be on par with Hollywood film soundtracks these days, ...

Blip Festival New York 2012 is one of the world’s largest gatherings for chip musicians, who play using the Game Boy, NES, or other old gaming consoles. Blip Festival New York 2012 is one of the world ...

One boring day in late February, I stared listlessly at my Twitter feed looking for nothing in particular when a tweet popped up from one of my friends touting a new social networking site. Did I dare ...

In the digital world, you know you've made it when you become a verb. Google this. Twitter that. Blog the other. Well, now there's another service out there bucking for digital verbhood. It's called ...

The founders of "Twitter for music" site Blip.fm this week launched the beta version of its brand new service Fuzz, a site that offers a new slant on interacting with songs you like and the people who ...

The first thing I thought about this morning, as I opened my eyes, was that the cat trying to rouse me from my hung-over sleep sounded like a Game Boy. The second thing is that I had a really, really ...

David Byrne's worldly Luaka Bop label will on June 4 will release two compilations presenting cross-sections of the little-explored musical genres of "blip hop" and the French Nouvelle movement. By ...