Today on hidden gem with Halloween a few weeks away now would be a good time to talk about one of the best horror game soundtracks and that is Silent Hill. The game soundtrack is was created by sound director Akira Yamaoka who previously work on games such as Contra:...

Today on Hidden Gems we are going to talk about Prince's second album and it's an album that doesn't get enough exposure and that album is Prince. This self-titled album was released on October 19, 1979, and it was all written and played by Prince himself. This album...

Today we are going to look at one of the best albums of all time from one of the best groups of all time and the impact it had not just to the music scene but in pop culture as well and that album is Abby Road, the eleventh studio album by The Beatles. The album...

Today on Hidden Gem we are going to talk about two important people who brought the music scene from the club scene to video games and change the way music was heard in gaming and they are Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima. Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima both...

Today on hidden gems I'm going to talk about a youtube channel that has been promoting electronic music and that channel is Electronic Gems. This channel has been around since March of 2008 and the channel mission statement is something we here always agreed on with...

Yo ho! Nightrider here! As of this posting, you may have heard on Twitter about the passing of Spanish singer Camilo Sesto on 8 September at the age of 72, 8 days shy of what would have been his 73rd birthday. Beginning his career in 1964 with the band Los Dayson and...

Today on hidden gems we are going to talk about an album that came out of nowhere from a group who just came back and drop one of the best hip hop albums of 2019 and that is Little Brother with their outstanding comeback album May the Lord Watch. The last time this...

Yo Ho! Nightrider here! In this installment of Hidden Gems, we'll take a look at a landmark album from 1969 that cemented the music genre of Balada Rockmántica: Los Ángeles Negros (The Black Angels). Los Ángeles Negros is a Chilean band that formed in 1968 when...

Today on Hidden Gems I'm going to talk about a song that any fan of Prince will know once it starts playing but did you know there was an extended version of said song and that song is Raspberry Beret. Raspberry Beret was the fourth track from the 1985 album Around...

Yo Ho! Nightrider here! Last year, I posted a report about a summer concert in Japan that caught my attention: Fuji Rock Festival 2018. Apart from watching Johnny Marr performing, I discovered different alternative bands like Mitsume. While recharging from the monster...