Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack nirvana unexpected characters—alongside industry heavy-hitters like

unexpected characters—alongside industry heavy-hitters like Katy Perry

erudite prose Gonzales delves beyond Enya's innumerable gold discs and millions of fans to excavate his own enthusiasm for her singular music

But what made them most inspiring was their ethos and a unique brand of sisterhood that inspired fans to create Riot Grrl and form legendary bands such as 7 year Bitch

These two emcees from the Bronx

who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980

Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack nirvana unexpected characters—alongside industry heavy-hitters likeKoji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops the sterile products of a lab environment replacing it with one in which game sounds constituted a legitimate form of artistic expression. Andrew Schartmann takes us through the various external factors (eg, the video game crash of 1983, Nintendo's marketing tactics) that coalesced into a ripe