Cavs NBA 2K Player Erupts For 46 Points In Narrow Playoff Win
Today’s playoff bracket pit the Utah Jazz and the Cleveland Cavs’ 2K squads against each other. Brandon “Hood”…
Musician Arranges Jazz Set For Pro Smash Matches
Music student Nicholas Caleb Goss sees melodies when he watches Super Smash Bros. Melee champion Jose “Mango” Marquez…
Anime, Video Games, And Funk Flow Together In Thundercat's Drunk
Thundercat is a bassist who blends video games into everything he does, and whose latest album situates references to Mo…
Here Is A Ridiculously Well Animated Video Game Jazz Band
When video games depict a musical performance, they usually half-ass the animations. The drummer waggles his sticks…
Guy Performs Free Jazz To Competitive Smash Bros.
Here’s Caleb, doing a stunning drum performance. And it’s not just random drumming. All the different hits are in sync…
Undertale now has an official jazz album. Like “Determination,” the first Toby-Fox-sanctioned Undertale cover album,…
Pokémon Theme Becomes Late Night Drinking Companion
Twenty years from now we’ll finda scruffy Ash Ketchum in a dimly-lit bar, nursing a bottle of scotch while this song…
The Handwritten Blueprint For A Musical Masterpiece
Before music becomes music—before it's played by musicians—it's just ink on a page. Some compositions require a great…
Rest In Peace, Dave Brubeck
Today, the world lost one of the greats: Jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck died at the age of 91. Among his many…
Miles Davis Hated Everything
Jazz trumpet genius Miles Davis had a lot of things going for him. He had a unique musical intelligence, an…
A Listener's Guide to the Music of Kids on the Slope
And so with one last musical interlude, Shinichirō Watanabe’s marvelous anime Kids on the Slope concluded its…
From The Creators of Cowboy Bebop, a Dreamlike Ode to Youth, Love and Jazz
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…
Growing the Jazz Audience 'Can't Be Done.' Maybe That's Okay?
Look, I'm under no illusions about jazz music's unpopularity. I grew up playing jazz, went to school to study jazz,…
Michel Camilo's Big Band Was So Caliente It Nearly Caught Fire
Here's one for all the fans of latin music—pianist Michel Camilo is a far cry from the mellow melodies of Antonio…
A Hidden Gem on the Greatest Jazz Album of All Time
It's widely held that Miles Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue is the greatest jazz album of all time. I believe that in…
Super Meat Boy Blowing a Hadoken Through a Saxophone!
Did that headline get your attention? Good, because you should go and read this super-cool piece by Kill Screen's Lana…