Last year, we announced our plan to launch a VGM album highlighting key tunes from the NYC VGM jam scene. We are excited to introduce our debut album “Player’s Guide”! This album features 10 tracks featuring 15 musicians from our staff and community. To cover production costs and to pay everyone involved, we have also launched an IndieGoGo campaign for support. Donations of any amount are appreciated, and spreading the word is valuable too. Let’s showcase NYC’s VGM talent as we head into 2025!

After spanning across two years, I’ve finally gone through as much of the Paper Mario: TTYD OST as I could when going through my journey of conquering my bias for Mario game OSTs. Paper Mario: TTYD is one of my all-time favourite Mario games, so it was a no-brainer for me to bring this beloved OST to life on the King of Instruments, the Pipe Organ. It was a labour of love, so I hope you all enjoy my work, along with many more Mariorelated Organ Covers I’ve produced over the past decade.

I have a group of friends who idolize this song every winter, and just after Christmas I had an urge to make a quick remix this song. That has resulted in yet another cover of this song that has been added to our winter playlist!

We are thrilled to announce that Super Smash Opera will be performing at VGM CON 2025, with our second ever performance of “ARIA KART!” Can Team Mario beat Team Bowser while singing their way around the track to the tune of opera’s most classic hits? Come celebrate ten years of Super Smash Opera at this live performance with a full chorus and orchestra!

To those interested in applying to perform as part of our pit orchestra or chorus at VGM CON, general interest forms are now on our website.

After a successful Blue Shell Tour in 2024, Magnificent Danger and DiscoCactus are back together in 2025 with a new show in Providence, RI. Presenting Mirror Mode: A Full Night of VGM at Fete Music Hall, featuring Magnificent Danger, DiscoCactus and special guests Lame Genie! The show is on Friday, February 28th in 2025 but tickets are on sale now–why not treat both yourself and your player 2? See you there!

In April 2024, harrowed by the demands of touring families, and inspired by siren song of the yacht rock lifestyle, the Tiberian Sons decided to retreat to a sunny beachside resort town: Minneapolis.

But after a few days of basking in the sunlit palm trees, white sand and cerulean seas that the Twin Cities are known for… Came the Need. The Need for Speed. Luckily, the hotel they were staying at was hosting world-famous video game music convention VGM CON: thus, they decided to play a concert.

They took the stage on Friday, April 9th, 2024, at 21:30 local time, and the world was forever changed.

By the time the music stopped, the timeline had been irrevocably damaged. Minneapolis now lay in the center of the continent; a cold, harsh landscape of permafrost cliffs that only the toughest lifeforms dare set foot in.

This is the only known footage of The Event.

The Twin Cities Gamer Symphony Orchestra (TCGSO), Minnesota’s first VGM orchestra, debuted on 1/17/25 in St. Paul with music from Halo, Final Fantasy VII, Kingdom Hearts, Myst, and Civilization IV. Formed in Summer 2024 under Gamer’s Rhapsody, the orchestra now has 62 members and continues to grow. The concert was free and streamed on Twitch. Their next concert is slated for May 2025.

Ryan (aka BardicKnowledge) is the host of a new hour of VGM programming on his local public radio station, WKAR / 90.5 FM! The show, “Source Coda,” airs Mondays at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Remote folks can listen live at the WKAR website.