Couldn’t fit this preview into this week’s Up & Comings, but it looks to be a great night of lo-fi digital funkitude:

TRUCKASAURAS, SQUARE WAIL, LEENI, FIGHTER X (NECTAR) If Truckasauras are Seattle’s car crunching, dancefloor mashing 8-bit monsters, Leeni is our daisy plucking, bedroom swooning 8-bit sweetheart. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter is good looking, multi-talented (as professional celeb impersonator, she does a mean Britney and a campy Bush-in-drag), and has the kind of silky, sleepy voice that can coax true romance out of a Gameboy. She released her second record, 8 Bit Heart, in August; if Princess Peach set her wearied longings to a Super Mario soundtrack, they would sound something like this. Leeni’s compositions are intimate and delicate, her lyrics pop-culture savvy and self-aware. The whole package is rendered playfully surreal by its artificial sound, the pixelized pulses only a Nintendo can produce and only a keen artist can turn into music.

The really cool thing about this night is its breadth of styles, all of which fall under the “8-bit” banner: Truckasauras make redneck techno, and Leeni is a whip-smart singer-songwriter. Making music with a Gameboy might still be a novelty, but as more musicians choose to embrace its geek chic, the more they legitimize the genre and the instrument.

You can check out Leeni’s music on her Space Invaders-inspired website.