Mar 21, 2013

Teacher, rapper, hero… Mega Ran is one of my heroes. Through his music, he has helped re-invigorate my love of gaming and help me appreciate gaming music tenfold. I’ve written about his albums many times and I’ve bought many of them. But for some reason, I have never interviewed him. I had to fix that. With his album Castlevania out soon, I took the...

Mar 19, 2013

If there’s a thing I like, it’s things that aren’t, for the most part, mainstream. Call me a hipster. I just like what’s different. I like what I like and I won’t apologize for it. Video game rap music, or Nerdcore if you want to call it that, is among one of those things I love. My childhood consisted of my living in the ghetto playing my video...

Mar 14, 2013

It was 45 years ago in February that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play  – and went down in history as the first rock’n'roll album to win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was an album with many firsts, and not just its Grammy, which it won on February 29, 1968 at the 10th Annual...