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Boston8Bit Presents: Happy Birthday Facepalm

  • The Lilypad 1353 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA, 02139 (map)

Free Admission! / Start 9:30pm / Doors 9pm / Standing Show

Boston 8-Bit is a music and arts collective centered in the Greater Boston Area of Massachusetts, USA, devoted to showcasing and promoting the local scene of chiptune music and other 8-bit artworks - This showcase, we’re celebrating the birthday of Boston8Bit staple, MC Facepalm!

MC Facepalm

MC facepalm is a chip hop artist based out of Revere MA. Taking equal parts humor, hip hop skill and retro sounds MC facepalm presents something unlike anything you've herd. Unless you've herd MC facepalm before, then he sounds something that your familiar with.

chaimonsters.com/mcfacepalm

facebook.com/mcfacepalmchiphop

instagram.com/mcfacepalm

mcfacepalm.bandcamp.com

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Dominique Pelletier is a Montreal-based translator and part-time translation professor (Concordia University, University of Ottawa) with a background in audio recording technologies (Recording Arts Canada). She makes noise and chip music with various retro game and bootleg consoles (Game Boy, Colecovision, Famiclone) and circuit-bent toys. Theremin player and experimental musician, she adopts a transfeminist posture in favour of technological disobedience and against toxic virtuosity. In 2017, she co-curated the exhibition The Ghost Arcade at the Museo del juguete antiguo (MUJAM) in Mexico City and is the curator of Crafting Retrofutures, a series of exhibitions blending arts and crafts and Gameboy modding. In conjunction with Feminoise Latinamérica, she co-organised the two-day feminist chiptune and circuit sounds festival Femmi_comme_y_Amigas held in Mexico City in October of 2018 and participated in its sister iteration as part of Festival Metadatos in Chiapas in February of 2019. She is also co-founder of Fuck the sound check! against sexist violence in music and sound.

rainbowtrash.com

instagram.com/rnbwtrsh

youtube.com/channel/rainbowtrash

twitter.com/rnbwtrsh

Lemon Drop

New England based Chiptune artist

soundcloud.com/lemonwobs

facebook.com/lemonDropStuff

twitter.com/lemonwobs

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