{"id":29270,"date":"2021-03-27T00:07:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T04:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=29270"},"modified":"2021-03-27T00:07:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T04:07:51","slug":"nerd-music-meltdown-72-the-arkadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/nerd-music-meltdown-72-the-arkadian\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Music Meltdown #72: The Arkadian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Classic rock about video games?! Crazier things have happened, but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arkadianvgrb.bandcamp.com\/\">The Arkadian<\/a>&nbsp;shreds and sings some amazing tunes about retro games and arcade culture. We talk to The Arkadian about his rock influences, how meeting Ronnie James Dio changed his life, playing at the last live VGM festival before the pandemic shut everything down, what&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vgmcon.org\/\">VGM CON<\/a>&nbsp;is, and much more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Arcadian will be performing on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ongakuoverdrive.com\/virtuaongaku8\/\">Virtua Ongaku 8 Deluxe<\/a>, live on March 27th at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/ongakuoverdrive\">twitch.tv\/ongakuoverdrive<\/a>. Get more of The Arkadian at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arkadianvgrb.bandcamp.com\/\">arkadianvgrb.bandcamp.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to get future episodes of the Nerd Music Meltdown before anyone else? Subscribe at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/ongakuoverdrive\">patreon.com\/ongakuoverdrive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Meltdown&#8221; theme by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/roborobmusic.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RoboRob<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/18445961\/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>Classic rock about video games?! Crazier things have happened, but&nbsp;The Arkadian&nbsp;shreds and sings some amazing tunes about retro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29270","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\/29270","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=29270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29272,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29270\/revisions\/29272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}