Can’t wait to get your Nerdapalooza fix? Team Nerdapalooza has just released the live CD recordings from last year’s event featuring over 30 performers, including such artists and bands like The OneUps, Metroid Metal, brentalfloss, HDninja, Armcannon, I Fight Dragons, The Bossfights, Jeux On, Random Encounter, and much more! With over thirty-seven tracks and hours of living up some Nerdapalooza nostalgia, the Nerdapalooza 2011 Recordings will hit your sweet nerd spot and keep you sated until August.

Time to get with what could very well be one of the best releases of 2012! Open Circuit will be hosting an online listening party for Cory Johnson’s finalized version of the long-awaited The Legend of Zelda album tonight at 5 PM EST on Arecibo Radio.

VGM netlabel GameChops has recently presented its very first remix contest for Dj CUTMAN’s track “Powerglove (It’s So Bad)” featuring Benjamin Briggs, which takes a classic NES sample and throws in “a heaping dose of french electro and gritty automation to create something so good, it can only be called ‘so bad’”. Are you bad enough to enter?

Bit Gen Gamer Fest 7 is here and ready to rock your world! Originally started up in 2005, Baltimore’s premier videogame music festival has grown into one of the most biggest, action-packed concerts on the East Coast and is only expected to get even more monumental. This year’s line-up has just been announced and Bit Gen is looking awesome.

The indie game bundle website Indie Royale releases game bundles every two weeks to help get the word out over games that are worth playing and support developers that are typically passed over in mainstream media. This time around, Indie Royale has recently released the May Hurray Bundle featuring some of the most brilliantly designed indie releases, along with a great album from the NYC-based chiptune futurists Infinity Shred.

Nerdapalooza will be making a bigger and better comeback than ever before for 2012! Taking place on the weekend of August 3rd to 5th in downtown Orlando, Florida’s biggest annual nerd festival is looking amazing with returning performances by such artists like Metroid Metal, Danimal Cannon, brentalfloss, the OneUps, and Random Encounter.

Down for video games, chip music, and getting drunk in the name of good causes? The Manhattan-based ‘geek nightlife’ promotion company Sick Damage is hosting a Cinco de Mayo charity party in Brooklyn this weekend to help aid David A. Croach, a close friend who has been recently diagnosed with leukemia.

Just received word from our friends over at Ubiktune that Ken “coda” Snyder will be releasing his solo debut album tracer, which will consist of four tracks that promise a “half hour of chiptune-infused prog rock madness”. Noise Channel listeners will be the first to hear the album from start to finish and then download it immediately afterwards, so be sure to tune in to the listening party at 10PM Eastern on Arecibo Radio.

Yeah, yeah. We’re huge Dj CUTMAN fans here at ThaSauce. This time around, this captivating DJ takes his proficient skills in audio engineering up a notch to remix music from the NES platform Little Nemo: The Dream Master.

Calling all Bay Area residents, the Minibosses are comin’ at you fast this June! With a broad range of instrumental covers of 8-bit NES songs, the Minibosses will rip into your soul with hard-hitting video game metal. The Minibosses will embark on what they call a mini-tour this June, travelling through various locations in the San Francisco Bay Area with their instruments in tow — dates and locations have just been announced.