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GameGrooves @gamegrooves.com · 04/03/2026

It feels obvious to say, but women kick ass. In honor of the 35th anniversary of Street Fighter II - which featured one of Yoko Shimomura’s earliest soundtracks - and in honor of Women’s History Month, GameGrooves presents Lightning Kick! Preorder on #Bandcamp: lnk.to/lightning-kick #StreetFighter

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GameGrooves @gamegrooves.com · 18/11/2025

Check out @zeldarocks.bsky.social's contemplative arrangement of the Protagonist's Theme, perfectly closing out our piano album, Brave Sonata. On #bandcamp and streaming: lnk.to/brave-sonata #finalfantasytactics #piano

ZeldaRocks's artist spotlight

What inspired you to choose your track?
Given how the protagonist/hero's theme is woven throughout much of the game's soundtrack we thought someone should make sure it's on the album! The somber determination in the piece is also an interesting choice for a character theme, but it fits Ramza perfectly.

What is your favorite memory of playing FF Tactics?
Definitely the first time I played it while visiting a high school friend. He was playing his dad's copy and telling me all about the game, and later his dad came in and also started gushing about it so that was a fun moment of generational nerdiness. Hopefully the remaster will connect more people like this!

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Airship Overdrive 👾🎸🎵 @airship-overdrive.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

If you’re around #Boulder Colorado this weekend, come check out the Super Game Music Festival at the Canyon Theater, Sun 11/30 from 1-4pm!! 👾🎮🎶 5 great video game cover bands performing, including myself. No charge, stay as long as you like, get involved locally! My #pedalboard for the show below

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Pokérus Project @pokerusproject.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

NEW MUSIC! Happy #PokemonLegendsZA release week! We went full steam ahead with this one: ROGUE MEGA EVOLUTION battle music - Electro Metal Version. Hope you enjoy it! (Full vid in the comments)

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Audio Mocha @audiomocha.com · 16/09/2025

Those of you in Colorado and fans of video game music, come and join @chunderfins.bsky.social @zeldarocks.bsky.social @pandorasbread.bsky.social @airship-overdrive.bsky.social and I at the Super Game Music Festival, November 30th! . . . . . . #videogamemusic #vgm #livemusic #coloradolivemusic

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Had a great time arranging for and playing on this album! Was fun to take a classic battle theme and mellow it out with some jazz, and there a several other great songs doing the same on here so give it a listen if you haven't already.

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Bonus Stage @bonusstagevan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

6pm PST at www.twitch.tv/bonusstagevan We're gonna be listening to @gamegrooves.com new project with them, a jazzy cover of Persona hits - and having a chat about it! Don't miss out! #persona #twitch #jazz #lounge

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GameGrooves @gamegrooves.com · 30/05/2025

We're live now with Josh from @bonusstagevan.bsky.social! See you on Twitch! twitch.tv/bonusstagevan

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GameGrooves @gamegrooves.com · 29/05/2025

Our listening party for Lounging in the Velvet Room is happening tomorrow, hosted by @bonusstagevan.bsky.social! Thursday, May 29, 6 pm PT / 9 pm ET on the Bonus Stage Twitch channel! Join us tomorrow on the Bonus Stage Twitch channel: twitch.tv/bonusstagevan Art by @aggressionrose.bsky.social

GameGrooves Lounging in the Velvet Room Listening Party Thursday, May 29, 6 pm PT / 9 pm ET on the Bonus Stage Twitch channel!

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GameGrooves @gamegrooves.com · 12/05/2025

Join us on Thu, May 29, 6 pm PT / 9 pm ET for the listening party for our upcoming #Persona album, Lounging in the Velvet Room. Hosted by Josh from @bonusstagevan.bsky.social, we'll listen to the whole album, watch music videos, and give out album codes! RSVP: www.bonusstage.ca/event-detail...

GameGrooves presents the listening party for our upcoming Persona lounge jazz album, Lounging in the Velvet Room, hosted by Josh from Bonus Stage on May 29, 6 pm PT / 9 pm ET on the Bonus Stage Twitch channel.

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jnWake @jnwake.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

New video! A piano solo cover of "Lake" from the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum set of Pokémon games. It's featured on the recently released Pokémon Piano Tribute by the VGM Pianists (check it out here: fanlink.tv/PokemonVGMPi...). Hope you enjoy! youtu.be/39reOhLB7WE

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Pokémon Platinum - Lake || Piano Cover

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Thrilled to be on the latest VGM Pianists album, "A Stop on the Route", performing an arrangement of Canalave City from Pokémon Diamond & Pearl! Everyone played splendidly on this album, so definitely listen to the full thing here: fanlink.tv/PokemonVGMPi... Full video: youtu.be/E16hSlUGES4?...

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88bit 🎹 @88bit.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I'm excited to share my latest video game piano arrangement: Game Corner (from Pokémon Gold & Silver) by composed @goichinose.bsky.social! I recorded and arranged this for the VGM Pianists Pokémon tribute album — and you should definitely check that out too! 🎧 ➡️ youtu.be/PgqDgYwIP8w (1/3)

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Game Corner (from Pokémon Gold & Silver) - piano version

YouTube video by 88bit

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Sean R. Hanson 🎹 @sean081799.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

New album drop from the VGM Pianists! Check out A Stop On The Route - a 36 track piano album featuring a ton of songs from the Pokemon franchise! I am lucky to be featured on here covering Route 120 from Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald! Check out the relevant links below!!! 🔽🔽🔽

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Of course! I found your music a few months ago from your cover of the Bowser boss theme from Yoshi's Island, and now I've listened to most of it. Especially big fan of the MMX covers. 🤘

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The remastered version of my piano cover of "Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit" is live now on YouTube and all music streaming platforms! Link to Full Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVhC... Or Stream the Song: fanlink.tv/rocheLimitPi...

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Posting this cover of “The Shallows” from @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social ‘s Another Crab’s Treasure one more time to celebrate the release of their big “Year of the Crab” update! Can’t wait for it to come to Switch so I can sink my claws into that New Game +. youtu.be/fmpvEAk5JwI?...

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Good to know! I didn't realize there were services for that so I'd just been copying them by hand.

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'll be interested to see how well that works! I've tried copying some of my more popular Spotify playlists over but they haven't gained any traction, and it seems like Apple Music as a platform doesn't really like to highlight user-generated playlists.

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

After 3 years, our piano cover of the Forgotten Land final boss finally hits streaming tomorrow! (Thanks Nintendo Music for making this licensable). This is one of my favorite covers so excited to have it out there, and with all I've learned since then it's freshly remastered with a new solo.

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

We got to cover "We Are!" from One Piece for this, which was an absolute blast and we got to make our dream of having a full English cover with the opening narration a reality! On streaming services now: Spotify - open.spotify.com/track/6hOG7n... Apple Music - music.apple.com/us/album/we-...

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We Are! (from "One Piece")

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Alyssa Menes @acmenesmusic.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This was so fun to conduct (and shout!)

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I recorded the Gold Saucer theme for this! Overall a fun little album with a lot of talented folks and a good blend of relaxing and upbeat piano arrangements. Give it a listen!

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

New cover - a surf rock spin on "The Shallows" from @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social 's Another Crab's Treasure! Easily our favorite game of 2024, so it was super fun to pay a small tribute with this song. Full video on YouTube: youtu.be/fmpvEAk5JwI Or stream the song: fanlink.tv/surfRockShal...

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Still hoping Nintendo will add more Kirby music one of these weeks, but for now I'm tired of waiting so I made a playlist of every notable song I could find with an official arrangement or a cover on Spotify! There's at least a few songs from every game on there. 😁 open.spotify.com/playlist/5cS...

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Kirby Music

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We both thought it was awesome!! As someone who hasn't really played it I just thought all the scuba diving shots and overall performance were excellent, but she was especially blown away by the effort and pointed out all the details that were accurate to the game. Plus the food looked delicious!

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

My partner's a huge fan of this game so we'll definitely be watching the video later - just this snippet looks amazing!

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Ro Panuganti @ropanuganti.com · 17/01/2025

RO THE METAL DIVER - A Dave The Diver Fan Film After a year in making, I invite you to take the dive. My prog-rock and metal tribute to this amazing adventure-meets-cooking game is here 🍣 FULL VIDEO ➡https://youtu.be/9zvyQO8wT-s Shares very very much welcomed 🙏

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Licensing never ceases to be a headache - hopefully that game gets an official OST through the Nintendo music app someday because I love that song and your cover was awesome, so it would be sick to have it on Spotify.

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Jonny Atma @jonnyatma.com · 20/01/2025

The Miracle Matter (Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards) and The Fog (Persona 4) GaMetal remixes are now available on Spotify/Apple Music/etc! Miracle Matter: ffm.to/miraclemattergametal The Fog: ffm.to/thefoggametal (Song art by @nintendonut1.bsky.social!)

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

New single next week - a surf rock take on this song from #AnotherCrabsTreasure! We've been wanting to do this since we played the game over the Summer so excited to share the full track soon.

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vgmtogether @vgmtogether.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

We are happy to share our newest initiative with you! We hope that this will be a useful tool for the VGM community. Add yourself to the directory using the link below!

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is honestly a lot better than I expected - glad so many people are enjoying our music and looking forward to recording more when we have some time off from work/grad school! 😁

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TheManPF @themanpf.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

DKC2 is one of my favorite games of all time, I never knew how to pay homage to it with my musical skills but I had this idea a bit ago and thought it would be fun, Toxic Tower but happy, originally from the great @davidwise.bsky.social youtu.be/zA9nrKvp5I8 Whew I should post here more shouldn't I

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Donkey Kong Country 2 Pop Punk Cover - "Detox Tower"

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Shea's Violin @sheaviolin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

"Snakey Chantey" (Donkey Kong Country 2) puts a smile on my face every time I hear it, and I tried to bring that energy to this arrangement 😃 Thanks @davidwise.bsky.social for all the wonderful music! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KSH...

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Snakey Chantey - Donkey Kong Country 2 [Violin Folk Jazz Cover]

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Tee Lopes @teelopes.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Zelda's file select but it's sinister 💀

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

For sure!! Up Shuttlethread Pass is still my favorite but there are a lot of other great tracks in there like Yoshi and Cookies, A Little Light Snowfall, and the Wonderful World of Wool themes.

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

That's always been one of my favorites too! It has such a sweet yet melancholy air that captures winter better than a lot of games. Wonderful rendition!

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Xander Plute @xanderplute.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

With Thanksgiving right around the corner and snow starting to fall in parts of the U.S., here’s Up Shuttlethread Pass, one of my favorite Winter pieces, from Yoshi’s Woolly World! youtu.be/oXr2PpY53Pw?si…

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Kourtney in Kroctober @altermentality.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"Oh yes, Lord Woo and I go way back. We often go fishing together, but I'm not supposed to tell anyone..." #BanjoKazooie #BanjoTooie #Rare #Rareware

Lord Woo Fak Fak, a giant anglerfish, is floating on the surface of the ocean with his glowing lure dipped below the water. King Jingaling, who is a Jinjo (a pointy-snouted and pointy-eared creature) sits at his side, resting on his fin, with a fishing pole of his own. They both have their eyes closed peacefully. Jingaling has his crown off, which is sat on the top of Lord Woo's head. These characters are from Banjo-Tooie!

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

That's adorable!! I always loved zombie Jingaling's little lines about knowing the bosses, but I was never quite sure what the logistics of fishing with another fish were. 😂😁

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Of course!! You're cool, and all your work still stands on its own as impressive whether it continues in the future or not. 😁

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Definitely!! I love the Zelda 1 OST too, but it's certainly reused/referenced a lot more frequently than Zelda 2.

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Oh that's right - I forgot it had been so long since K Rool was revealed for Smash too! What a time that was. 😁 I don't think I saw your 101% the past two or three years so excited for this time - I'm sure it'll go better than ever. :)

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Some excellent arrangements of one of the best NES OSTs! (Okay maybe I of all people am biased about a Zelda OST being top-tier, but the piano performance is still wonderful. 😁)

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donut @warpwhistlesmusic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The @gamegrooves.com Alliance Album "Welcome Home: A Chamber Tribute to Hometown Themes" is here! I covered Pure a Stream ~ Arlia Village from Star Ocean 2! SO2 is one of my favorite games of all time, & I love how this came out. Full Video: youtu.be/WNLmjBlT55s Get The Album: lnk.to/welcome-home

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Dang 7th annual already?? I remember the first one and really thought that was like 4 years ago. 😅 Can't wait!!

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Xander @zeldarocks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Been really enjoying Super Mario Party Jamboree! In particular we've had a ton of fun with the Rhythm Kitchen mode - makes me surprised Nintendo never made a Rhythm Heaven for the Switch cause it's very reminiscent of that.

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