LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! In 1973, Roland released the Space Echo, a tape delay machine that delivered that delivered a distinct repetitive, rhythmic,… Read the rest of the article: How to make extra-long, strange, and trippy tape loops inside a standard cassette
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Digital hardcore duo Machine Girl, with the late-October release of their new album MG Ultra still echoing, is making… Read the rest of the article: Machine Girl meets Game Boy: an 8-bit photo gallery
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! "Steamed Hams" is a segment from the 1996 anthology episode of the Simpsons, "22 Short Films about Springfield." Considered… Read the rest of the article: Steamed Hams and the beautiful degradation of copying VHS tapes (video)
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Recently, retrosound77, an Instagram account about interesting vintage stereo gear, posted a video about the Toshiba AS-10, a portable… Read the rest of the article: Weird walkman-style cassette players that played Tetris and Blackjack
No smoke, just water in the Sherman Oaks, California location of Guitar Center yesterday after two cars collided outside the store and knocked over a fire hydrant. The broken pipe… Read the rest of the article: Rushing rapids and staircase waterfall inside massively flooded Guitar Center (video)
During the pandemic, digital hardcore pioneers Machine Girl, comprised of producer and vocalist Matt Stephenson and drummer Sean Kelly, experienced a massive surge in popularity. At the time, their album… Read the rest of the article: Machine Girl refines and redefines digital hardcore yet again
Green Day, continuing this years 30th anniversary celebration of the band's critically-acclaimed 1994 LP, Dookie, released Dookie Demastered—a collaboration with Brain.wtf to provide each of the album's songs on a… Read the rest of the article: These are the 8-bit punk roots of Green Day's new "Dookie Demastered"
On September 6, 1993, punk legends Green Day took the stage at Gilman Street, their last full show at the tiny Berkeley, California club at the center of the Bay… Read the rest of the article: Punk legends Green Day sell out hometown stadium
The Teenage Engineering OP-1 is a cult synthesizer used by countless electronic musicians across genres. Launched in 2011, it was out of stock from 2018-2019, restocked with a 35% price… Read the rest of the article: This hidden warning inside Teenage Engineering's hugely popular product has no teeth
Atari announced today that it has acquired Intellivision Entertainment, acquiring all of the rights to the branding and "certain games," according to the announcement. The first product they're launching with?… Read the rest of the article: Atari acquires Intellivision, 45 years too late
On May 7, the world of underground (and not-as-underground) music suffered an incredible loss. Steve Albini, pioneering recording engineer and artist, died at 61 from a heart attack. A multitude… Read the rest of the article: Steve Albini's incendiary final album with Shellac is his Bowie "Blackstar"
Southern California's retro game scene is impressive, with dozens of stores catering to every gamer's retro needs, weekly swap events, and one of the largest video game conventions in the… Read the rest of the article: Retro game store robbed in California—and another attempted
In the 90s, comics were competing harder than ever for consumers' attention and publishers needed a new way to grab attention on the shelf. After all, we often do judge… Read the rest of the article: Glow-in-the-dark inks, real bullet holes, and other gimmicky comic book covers (video)
In 1981, Suzuki launched the Omnichord, an electronic autoharp simple enough that anyone could play make cool music using it. While the instrument wasn't a smash hit, it garnered a… Read the rest of the article: Omnichord, the wonderfully simple synth-harp of the 1980s, is reborn
Adam Shub, known by many as squarepainter, paints scenes from retro games, painstakingly, pixel by pixel. His work represents mostly titles from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, begins with a grid… Read the rest of the article: Adam Shub, painting pixel by pixel
The Nintendo 64 has the smallest library of games of any Nintendo console. Just under 300 games, completing a complete set has grown more popular over the years due to… Read the rest of the article: Ultra-rare Nintendo game found at thrift store is worth $1,000+
Ah, the thrift store electronics section, frequently filled with quite possibly enough Wii Fit Balance Boards to reach the moon and back. But occasionally, a gem can still be found… Read the rest of the article: How to turn a thrift store cassette player into a gnarly guitar distortion box
The Nintendo-loving developers of WiiLink have come out with a new way to keep your wii busy this year with a revival of the long-discontinued WiiConnect24 services, including formerly Japanese-exclusive channels!… Read the rest of the article: You can now order pizza with a Nintendo Wii (again)
An engineer in the small European country of Malta by the name of Carl Bugeja has created what may very well be the first hobbyist self-soldering printed circuit boards. For those… Read the rest of the article: Maker creates electronic device that solders itself like "a self-cooking pizza"
Invented nearly a century ago, the theremin is famously known as the first music instrument you play without touching it. In the 1950s, Bob Moog—then a high school student—began building… Read the rest of the article: Haunting sounds of the beautiful new Moog Etherwave Theremin
