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May ends within two days of this post, and that means it’s time for “On Stage Now”, our special monthly episode in which a cover or remix musician is featured. This month’s musician is LucasGitanoFamily, a Frenchman who’s been learning to play rumba gitana since six years old and influenced by the Gypsy Kings. He has toured the world over, showing his ability to impro...

The open road – an invitation to those ready to take the wheel and drive solo or with companions. Destination: unknown. We’re celebrating National Road Trip Day, which happens on the Friday before the Memorial Day weekend. According to Pilot Flying J, it is the “unofficial” start of summer travel as people pack up their cars and work out their itineraries to visit the place...

Today, we celebrate the Microsoft Windows release of Terraria, on May 16th, 2011. A 2D action-adventure sandbox game, Terraria contains several RPG elements with its 16-bit world. You’ll explore several biomes or environments, discover and gather resources for crafting, and build your shelter, equipment, and items to help you explore deeper and fight harder enemies and bosses. You can also a...

Today we’re celebrating Europe Day… wait, wasn’t Europe Day on May 5th? Yes, and yes, but hear me out. This date for Europe Day, May 9th, celebrates the Schuman Declaration, established on May 9, 1950, between France and Germany to pool their resources in coal and steel, so as to make war impossible between themselves. Later, in 1993, the partnership has led the foundation of the...

Space… the final frontier. A place seen as void of life yet it holds a certain mood of curiosity. It has stirred many to advance the sciences for possible exploration and discovery. And today we’re celebrating National Space Day, on May 2nd. This day, originally created by Lockheed Martin as Space Day, was meant to encourage students to think about a career in the aerospace industry. L...

The end of April nears, which means it’s time for our special episode of “On Stage Now”. This month, we’re featuring TeraCMusic. TeraCMusic is a musician who’s covers are mostly done in string or with vocals. She learned to play the piano and violin at a young age, though she has also added the guitar and violia. With re-imagined and re-invented arrangements, her insp...

This episode is going to be epic! Well, in terms of sites and buildings, because we’re celebrating International Day for Monuments and Sites, also known as World Heritage Day. This day, developed by the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), is to honor and raise awareness of the heritage of natural and man-made monuments and sites. It also promoted the preservation and conse...

Today, on April 11, is the 1997 Japanese release of Alundra, an action-adventure that is considered a spiritual successor to Landstalker. It is about an adventurer named Alundra who finds himself washed onto the shores of Torla. He is nursed back to health in the village of Inoa and finds people dealing nightmares. He learns that he can enter people’s dreams and uses this power to help the v...

They’re feared by elephants yet fancied by its breeders and fans. They’re scorned for carrying diseases yet appreciated for detecting them. They’re considered offensive and selfish, yet some consider them clean and sociable. They are the rats, and today we’re celebrating World Rat Day, in honor of these fascinating creatures of science and society. For a time, rats were tho...

The end of March is near, which means that we’ve got a special episode of “On Stage Now” to feature a musician of covered or remixed video game music. For this month, our featured musician is ToxicxEternity. ToxicxEternity has been shredding covers of VGM since 2008 on his YouTube channel. While most of them are by him alone, at times he’ll do a collaboration with another m...

5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Whether it’s waiting for the new year, watching the microwave clock to finish, or wondering how the game will finish, the countdown can stir excitement or build suspense. Today we’re celebrating National Countdown Day, first established by National Day Calendar, to honor those last few numbers until the end or beginning of an event or moment...

Today, we’re celebrating National Pi Day, that constant value of 3.14159265 and so forth. It is the result of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Though it’s often used to calcuate a circle’s area or a sphere’s volume, pi is also used in geometry and physics. The Exploratorium Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception, located in San Francisco, f...

“Hello?” “Moshi moshi?” “Diga?” “Wei?” “Allo?” Today, we’re celebrating Alexander Graham Bell Day, in honor of the man who created and invented the telephone. The date, March 7th, marks the date in which the U.S. Patent Office granted the patent in 1876. It was made out of necessity regarding mother who was becoming hard of hearing....

My, what a short month is February, which means it’s time for another special episode of “On Stage Now”, where we feature a cover/remix musician and their works. This month, we’re featuring JemyMusic (real name: Jemy Hiiragi). She’s an electronic musician, keyboardist, and performer. She posts on her YouTube channel videos of her covers and remixes of video game music...

On this date, February 21, 1986, “The Goonies” video game was released for Nintendo’s Famicom (Family Computer); it was later ported and released on the computer (PC-8801, X1, MSX), for the arcade (VS. System, Playchoice-10), and the Famicom Disk System. The game was based on the film of the same name, which was released in the United States on June 7, 1985. It follows the advent...

Ah, the power of love… it’s a wonderful feeling that can carry you through the day, especially when it’s rough. Sometimes, love can all you to do additional things or learn more about someone. Intimate connections aside, love can be many things. We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day by talking about the waifu (or husbando). Loaned from the English language in the 1980s, i...

It’s time to party! We’re celebrating three years of covers, remixes, arrangements, and orchestrations of video game music on RE-VGM. The first episode was published on February 4, 2022, with its first look at “Dearly Beloved” and its covers and remixes by musicians. Since then, and with a quick retooling, each episode has been a celebration of many things: what’s hap...

Welcome to the first monthly special episode of “On Stage Now”, where we feature a musician with a playlist of their covers, remixes, and inspired tracks. This month for January, we are featuring Martin Skar Berger, a musician who goes by Skar. He was first featured on Episode 120, for National Poker Day, for his cover of “That’s the Way It Is”, from Red Dead Redempti...

This week, we are celebrating the digital release of Sonic Forces on Sony’s PlayStation 4. The game was originally released worldwide on November 7, 2017 and two days later in Japan. It was developed after Sonic Lost Worlds and influenced by Sonic Mania, including its plot. Dr. Eggman is at it again, and he’s tired of losing to Sonic. This time, he creates a creature who calls himself...

Sometimes, a game doesn’t need the backing of a popular company to be fun. It may not need crowdfunding.  In fact, there are a host of games that are “inspired” by other popular games. Actually, it’s more like they borrowed from these games heavily enough to swap out things and switch certain areas, despite having some bugs that could crash the game. We’re celebrating...

Strange, unusual, weird… these words often describe someone who is peculiar. They are known to walk to the beat of their drum and make life abnormal, but at one time, these people were considered set apart from the rest of the crowd, as called by God. There was even a Christian movement called “The Peculiar People”, founded on two verse from the Bible, Deuteronomy 14:2 and 1 Pete...

After partying hard on New Year’s Eve and Day, a rest is surely deserved. In fact, there’s a day for that, called the Festival of Sleep Day, celebrated on January 3rd every year. Sleep can have some wonderful effects on the body: it lowers the blood pressure, regulates blood sugar, helps one solve a problem the next, relieve stress, and maintain weight. A lack of sleep, though, can cau...

Ah, the fruitcake, one of the holiday desserts that brings a smile to fans, a laugh to certain people, and a moan of pain to those receiving it. Because of how the cake is preserved, the fruitcake has also been family heirloom, passed down several generations, with some families having a sample of it each year. This week, we’re celebrating National Fruitcake Day on December 27th, with tracks...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! It’s that time of the year where I compile all the tracks I’ve showcased for 25 days into a special holiday episode for your listening enjoyment. While some tracks are returning from the previous holiday episodes, there are some new one to spicy up the list. If you enjoyed any of these tracks, be sure to support these musicians by visitin...

“There’s no need to fear…” This week, we are celebrating National Underdog Day, the third Friday of December. It was originally created to honor those unrecognized employees who toil in their workplace but nowadays it’s about those people who were expected to lose in a competition but somehow manage to win it out. One of the earliest examples is David, a figure from t...