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Boston Bitdown returns March 5th - 8th, 2026!
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Do you trust us? These Boston Bitdown 2 announcements are about to crash Game Boys. 4 day early bird passes are available now! Head to bostonbitdown to grab yours NOW! More to be announceddddd
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Please welcome gulfwargameboy to Boston Bitdown! Like his namesake, he survives and thrives through devastation. We kinda think the melted outer shell adds character. Actually, we think it’s punk as !@#$. He’s our yellowed rose of Texas, and he’s coming to Boston to crush it!
December 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Legacy Act Alert: Please welcome to the Boston Bitdown lineup, Los Microwaves; David Javelosa’s synth new wave brain child, leading digital fusion since 1978! When Los Microwaves play, they call upon the chiptune ancestors and conjure the 80’s new wave spirit.
Tix on sale now!
December 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Happy Holidays Bitdowners! This legend has some stake in many of our childhoods: We are so proud to announce to the Boston Bitdown lineup: Mega Drive Rex (David Javelosa), SEGA of America audio director, composer, and sound designer! Tix on sale now!
December 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Closing out Lonely Ghost Records week, your local boys from Boston, five friends ready to get down with the Bitdown, and fresh off a nomination for best dance music at the Boston Music Awards - Folks, we got Battlemode coming back!
BostonBitdown.com for earlybird tickets!
December 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Welcome to the Boston Bitdown and ALSO to the Lonely Ghost families, Mystery Dungeons! This Philly chiptune emo trio has a history slaying stages and stealing hearts. It’s no wonder America’s favorite chiptune label scooped them up and shipped them down to Boston Bitdown.
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Last year, Ultra Deluxe helped define Boston Bitdown. Audiences LOST THEIR SHIT as Ultra Deluxe earned their adoration with a kickass digital fusion set, bubble gun, & a parachute… so we invited them back. Please welcome back Lonely Ghost’s Records hottest Marxist princess.
December 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Lonely Ghost Records and Boston Bitdown present: Analogue Heart. He’s known to fry modems and overload circuit boards. Mixing emo, post-hardcore, and synth funk Analogue Heart will have you dance and mosh your way back to your parents computer room in 2003.
Get your earlybird tix @ bostonbitdown.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Babe wake up, it’s Lonely Ghost Records week at Boston Bitdown! They join the legacy of 8BitPeoples & DESKPOP as a label that features chiptune artists. And so we present The Lonely Ghost Stage: a Friday afternoon block of Lonely Ghost chiptune artists we're announcing this week!
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Ever been in a chiptune bloodbath? It’s a Game Boy, DS-10, and a lot of screaming. Please welcome +LET’S DISINFECT!+ to Boston Bitdown! We seek to bring light to all expressions of chiptune - and Chiptune Horror Punk is the perfect genre to showcase here. Buckle up!
Earlybird tix @ bostonbitdown.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Boston better be ready, cuz here comes LEX the Lexicon Artist! Backed by a full band they're hitting you with lyrics that will have you rolling! How can you classify this erudite, sagacious hiphop eccentric? Just call them LEX Early Bird Tickets on Sale at BostonBitdown.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Last year, Nullsleep’s performance digitized Boston Bitdown audiences until we were seeing binary for days (00000000 - 0x00 if you’re nasty)! With 25 years of mastery, this dude has been Bitdowning before Bitdown! It’s no wonder he gets the Bitdown star treatment. More stars TBA!
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
What are you doing in his swamp?! Shrek enthusiasts unite. It’s Optimus Chad!

Optimus Chads are like onions. They both have layers!. Shouty on the outside, adorable on the inside: all to the backing track of chiptunes.

That’ll do donkey, that’ll do. 4 Day passes on sale now!
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Please welcome Petrifom to the Boston Bitdown Lineup. It’s Daft Punk’s NES dream baby: 100% chiptune & 100% vocoder. A true Gameboy aria. So keep on keeping on Boston, because in just a few beep boops, spring will be blooming & Boston Bitdown will be here!
Earlybird pass on sale @ Bostonbitdown.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Making kick-ass music on non-traditional instruments? Where have we heard that before? Chiptunes repurposes unconventional appliances for making music and in turn, please welcome The Boston Typewriter Orchestra to the Boston Bitdown lineup!
4 Day Early Bird Passes on sale now!
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If it's labeled as a “Nerdcore” festival, and Mega Ran isn’t there, is it really a nerdcore fest? Please welcome rapper, educator, wrestling fan, dad, and checks notes GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATED ARTIST, Mega Ran to the Boston Bitdown lineup. 4 Day Bitdown Tix on sale NOW at bostonbitdown.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Time we reveal a hometown hero: This Bliss!
This indie-electronic power duo surrounds themselves in the sounds of synths and co-organize Boston's hottest Synth focused art gallery: New Alliance Gallery. Move over Moog, Give synth a chance.
4 day early bird passes on sale now @ bostonbitdown.com !
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Please welcome MC Lars to the Bitdown lineup!
This lit-hop legend has sailed the seas with captain Ahab, escaped the vengeance of Montressor, and even speaks Cthuvian. Now he takes the stage to tell us a tale.
Read a book. Listen to Lars. Come to Bitdown.
Earlybird tix on sale @ bostonbitdown.com !⏰
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The myth of Bubblegum Octopus grows! Hailing from the fabled lands of New Jersey, this OG Chiptuning jazzy cat will growl, purr, and hit you with lightning fast spazz pop and wear a cute dress in Boston while doing it in a can't miss show!
Early bird tix available at bostonbitdown.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This announcement is a love letter to the OGs. Please welcome Wisconsin's Panda Star to the Boston Bitdown lineup!! Doing this since 2009, he’s seen it all! From LSDJ to FL Studios to M8. Nothing is gonna knock this dude off-kilter. Wanna see chiptune in its truest form?
Tickets at bostonbitdown.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The new IT girl is here - and the claws are OUT! Please welcome VOID RIPPER to the Boston Bitdown Lineup. Accompanied by fellow CT heavy-hitters Country Corpse and Antares, this trio will keep you dancing ‘til you’re KO’d. Keep your eye on these guys, cause they’re about to rip!
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The Baron will see you now. Don’t keep him waiting…
Traveling through space & time to bring Boston the chiptune of 20XX, join Dr. Wilde, Billy Lightning, Commander Robert Bruce Murphy,& The Baron as they ride the waves of their newest album, FUTUREPROOF, right to Boston Bitdown 2026!
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Halloween eve and we have an announcement, but on who, it's a mystery. You've heard her bleepbloops coming from the shadows. There's lore about the legendary chiptune empire she built but it would be impossible to feel her greatest glitches, unless: Please welcome Muzak Efron to Boston Bitdown!
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Hot Ziggity! It’s Gosh Diggity! Chicago’s chiptune astronauts traveling to Boston via rocketship! This midwest kitchen techno trio is chiptune’s gift to the world. Listen to Gosh Diggity’s summer LP, “Good Luck! Have Fun” and buy your early bird 4 day passes to BOSTON BITDOWN 2!
October 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Are we gonna have some PROBLEMS here?

Yes we are. Please welcome PROBLEMS to the Boston Bitdown lineup! This Chicago electronic shaman enchants electronic shapes & mesmerizes with light patterns of the Ableton Push. We're locked in with PROBLEMS…Earlybird 4day passes on sale NOW! bostonbitdown.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM