{"id":28785,"date":"2020-06-05T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=28785"},"modified":"2020-06-05T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T03:12:13","slug":"nerd-music-meltdown-52-the-runaway-four-and-virtual-vgm-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nerd-music-meltdown-52-the-runaway-four-and-virtual-vgm-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Music Meltdown #52: The Runaway Four and Virtual VGM Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our first international guest is on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nmmpodcast.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nerd Music Meltdown<\/a>! Hailing from Vancouver, British Colombia, we have Josh Pendlebury, who plays guitar for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/therunawayfour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Runaway Four<\/a>&nbsp;and runs&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BonusStageVan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bonus Stage Van<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>Virtual VGM Fest<\/strong>!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Runaway Four&#8217;s take on video game melodies is progressive synth-rock based on themes instead of a specific game or series. We talk about how that came to be, the Vancouver nerd scene, other Canadian VGM acts, and putting on virtual concerts with Bonus Stage. The next Virtual VGM Fest will take place on Saturday, June 13th on Twitch.<br><br>Get more of The Runaway Four at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/therunawayfour.com\/\">therunawayfour.com<\/a>. Follow Bonus Stage for the Virtual VGM Fest at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/BonusStageVan\">twitch.tv\/BonusStageVan<\/a>.&nbsp; Want to support Nerd Music Meltdown and get future episodes before anyone else? Subscribe at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ongakuoverdrive\">patreon.com\/ongakuoverdrive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Meltdown&#8221; theme by RoboRob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14658053\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first international guest is on&nbsp;Nerd Music Meltdown! Hailing from Vancouver, British Colombia, we have Josh Pendlebury, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28786,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28785\/revisions\/28786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}