The Piano Player

Nietzsche once said, "Without music, life would be a mistake."

Today, the world lost one of the greats: Jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck died at the age of 91. Among his…

Earlier this week Sony unleashed 20 (mostly) new games on PlayStation Mobile, the new indie game delivery platform…

The crowd roars. It's thrilling. So are the gasps of disbelief, the sudden outbursts of raucous applause whenever…

Let's say there's a spectrum. On the one end, hunched in a leather jacket and stubbing out a cigarette on its boot…

And so with one last musical interlude, Shinichirō Watanabe’s marvelous anime Kids on the Slope concluded its…

One of my favorite things about Remedy's first two Max Payne games was their winking, self-aware style. That vibe…

I was a band kid in high school. (This is probably not a surprise to readers of Kotaku Melodic.) I tried on a lot of…

Look, I'm under no illusions about jazz music's unpopularity. I grew up playing jazz, went to school to study jazz,…

Here at Kotaku Melodic, we sometimes talk about music that doesn't turn up in video games. This week is no…