Cheap Dinosaurs is a synth rock band that creates instrumental music. Based out of Philadelphia and led by Dino Lionetti, Cheap Dinosaurs' etherial experience combines catchy melodies with jagged, rusty, driving rhythms, arcade aesthetics, loud guitars, and dirty synthesizer leads. The band is a collective of game composers and technoligists who are instrumentalists: Paul [chipocrite.com] creates music for the company Cleaversoft, Dino works freelance and has composed for River City Ransom Underground and High Strangeness, and Joey [nmlstyl.com] works in the retro homebrew community along with creating art assets for band. Chris Singer, Dino, and sometimes Joey team up to create code and moving graphics for live visuals. Rhythmic mercenary Kev ties everything together with pinpoint drumming accuracy. Kev has a history of propping up vgm adjacent bands such as Close to Good and Super Strikers, the Bravewave label's in-house band. Dino also works with Bravewave arranging and playing keys. Over the course of a decade they have played events and venues such as:
Blip Festival, MAGfest, BitGen, Boston 8bit, Pong/Tetris on the Cira Center, I/O, Pulsewave, Baby Castles, Warped Tour, Square Sounds Melbourne, AnimeNext, Too Many Games