Dj CUTMAN Interview: Chops and Beats
Dj CUTMAN has gained massive popularity in the game music scene for his “cuts”, where he takes samples from original video game […]
Tag: MAGFest
Saori Kobayashi and Yumiko Takahashi Interview: AKANE and MAGfest
Saori Kobayashi has received widespread acclaim for her work on Crimson Dragon and the Panzer Dragoon series. In 2010, she teamed up with Suikoden II‘s […]
Peter Kim Interview: Materia and Jazz Fusion
Peter Kim founded the OverClocked Remix band Materia after meeting up with likeminded musicians at MAGfest a couple years ago. The group […]
Stemage Interview: MAGfriends and MAGculture
Grant “Stemage” Henry has made a name for himself through a blend of original music and creative covers. His band Metroid Metal […]
Grant Kirkhope Interview: Reflecting and Looking Ahead
Grant Kirkhope has been praised for his iconic work on a wide variety of games, from Banjo-Kazooie, Viva Piñata, the Perfect Dark […]
Triforce Quartet Interview: Hey! Listen!
The Triforce Quartet is a unique ensemble that plays with the boundary between classical music and game scores. The four classically trained […]
Manami Matsumae Interview: A Retro Revival
Meeting with one of the original legendary Japanese game composers, Manami Matsumae, was memorable. When she first walked out for her Q&A, […]
Bear McCreary Interview: New Ventures in Game Music
Emmy award-winning composer Bear McCreary initially burst onto the scene with his groundbreaking score to Battlestar Galactica, and since then his compositional career has […]
Peat Rains & Michael Zucker Interview: This Place is Haunted
Peat Rains is the bassist and frontman of videogame music cover band This Place is Haunted and “pre-historic post-rock” band You Bred Raptors? […]
Yuu Miyake and Yoshihito Yano Interview: MAGFest 13
Yuu Miyake is a game music pioneer best known for being the sound director and lead composer for the Katamari Damacy series. […]
MAGFest 13: Maryland, January 2015
The amount of things one can do at MAGFest is seemingly limitless; nevertheless the concerts tend to be its biggest draw. After […]
Yoshitaka Hirota Profile
Best known for composing the unconventional but beautiful Shadow Hearts soundtracks, but has also worked as a sound designer and music producer
Yuzo Koshiro Profile
Ys. Sorcerian. Streets of Rage. Shinobi. ActRaiser. Shenmue. Wangan Midnight. Etrian Odyssey. 7th Dragon. One legend scored all these titles…
Nobuo Uematsu Profile
The most popular game music composer across the world, the artist won legions of hearts with his Final Fantasy scores, albums, and concert productions
Luke Esquivel (aka A_Rival) Interview: Street Fighter x Mega Man
Today, Capcom released the action game Street Fighter X Mega Man as a free download. The Blue Bomber serves as the protagonist of this 8-bit […]
MAGFest X: Maryland, January 2012
Our highly anticipated first presence at MAGFest was a bit shorthanded due to a sudden illness. Nevertheless, I did my best to […]
Blaine McGurty Interview: Retro Remix Revue Volume 2
Retro Remix Revue is a game music remix project who have just released their second album. In this interview, Don and Blaine recollect […]