Stage Clear III - Philadelphia's Video Game Music & Chip Tunes Mini-Fest - at MilkBoy
Featuring: Button Masher, Tee Lopes, ZAKU, Close To Good, nmlstyl & Dj Cutman
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Doors & Show: 6:00 PM
21+ with Valid Photo ID required for entry
About MilkBoy
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Please Note: MilkBoy’s stage is located on the 2nd floor and is standing room only. All patrons must be able to walk the flight of steps in order to enter the venue, as there is no elevator in the building.
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About Button Masher
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Jake Silverman, also known as Button Masher, is a GRAMMY-winning arranger, electronic musician, composer and educator. In 2018, Silverman began to experiment with combining Jazz Fusion with chiptune. Since that time, Silverman’s genre bending music has garnered popularity with jazz lovers and video games fans from all over the world. He received the 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Arrangement: Instrumental or A Cappella for his and Charlie Rosen’s arrangement of “Meta Knight’s Revenge” as recorded by the 8-Bit Big Band. In 2024 he was nominated for a second GRAMMY for his work with Charlie Rosen on their arrangement of “The Last Surprise” in the category of Best Arrangement: Instruments and Vocals. Button Masher can be heard with notable artists such as Phoenix, The 8-Bit Big Band, Evan Marien, Adam Neely, Sungazer, Andrew Huang, Dj Cutman, and many more.
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About Tee Lopes
Tee Lopes is a creative mind, known predominantly as a video game composer, but also as a songwriter, singer, arranger, voice over artist, DJ and occasional graphic designer. Lopes' composition career started with hip-hop beats and a growing interest in video game music, which led him to compose for games like Sonic Mania, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Streets of Rage 4 DLC, Metal Slug: Tactics, and most recently Shinobi: Art of Vengeance.
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About ZAKU
ZAKU is a wind-synthesizer-fronted instrumental band from Philadelphia, inspired by 80s Japanese Jazz Fusion and New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
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About Close To Good
Close to Good develops a continually honed sound finds itself somewhere near the edge of space-time, transporting audiences to the buzzing land of Transylvania, where the quartet is playing the anthem for the battle of the century between Dracula and Megaman.
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About nmlstyl
[ say it out loud as animal style ... but drop the vowels when you write it out ]
nmlstyl's live show combines chip/synth/vapor-wave, surf rock, techno, instrumental hip hop, and retro 80s textures. Influenced by video game soundtracks, jazz professionals, and DIY punk, their performances offer a mix of nostalgic and contemporary sounds.
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About Dj Cutman
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Dj Cutman is a music producer and live performer best known for popularizing video game music and chiptunes in live events and online. As the founder & Final Boss of the world’s most popular game music record label GameChops, Cutman helps create the world’s best covers and remixes of video game music.
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