KVGM "The Last Wave"
A half hour of the smoothest video game music on the planet.
KVGM “The Last Wave” (10/18/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
We’ve got a kid friendly show for the most part, with only one naughty PC visual novel but the rest…no problemo! We’ve got mahjong, fishing, chess, and a return to the Legend of...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (10/4/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
We’ve got a kid friendly show for the most part, with only one naughty PC visual novel but the rest…no problemo! We’ve got mahjong, fishing, chess, and a return to the Legend of...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (9/20/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
This week, we stay pretty dirty on the PC through half of the show because…the jams are there. But also we get a little horse racing simulation and golf and pachi-slots and, of course...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (9/6/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
Today is Hammock’s birthday! And to celebrate, we’re dishing out all the deep crust jams, with royalty free music from the C MUSIC library, Naotoshi Nishino goodness, PANDA express, mahjong music, Bomberman, a...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (8/23/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
This week, we’ve got plenty of jams to go around, with visual novel jams, fruit tiger aeroplane jams for the aesthetic, mahjong jams, airforce jams, and even billiards jams. Jams jams jams!
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KVGM “The Last Wave” (8/9/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
More royalty free music this week, as well as the return of some legendary VGM Jam Masters, as well as some NES bliss, baseball, mahjong, and at least 50 WACKY jobs. Be sure to subscrib...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (7/26/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
This week, we check out what the cool kids are listening to at the cool lunch table, including holdmusicwave and fishingwave and flightsimulatorwave and fashionwave…all the waves, plus a Famicom track that goes harde...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (7/12/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
The party continues here at the KVGM studio with plenty of dirty visual novels, a little Gran Turismo, some bass fishing, bowling, and even a video conference. Thanks again for keeping the Last Wave ali...
KVGM “The Last Wave” 300th Episode (6/28/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
On our historic 300th Episode, we asked the smooth operators who have supported the show through the years to submit some of their favorite jams for us to play on the show, and that’s e...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (6/14/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
We’re only one episode away from the historic 300th episode and we’ve got everything you need to chill the funk out. Mahjong, pachi-slot, shopping, and some quality one-on-one time with that special pers...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (5/31/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
Hammock’s back in the saddle again after a much needed vacation abroad. Thanks again to Norm aka NormallyRetro for filling in at the KVGM studio and bringing the jammage. But we’re back to busi...
KVGM “The Last Wave” featuring Normally Retro (5/17/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
While Hammock is still in Scotland, he made a phone call to friend of the show Norm aka Normally Retro to reprise his role as special guest host. You can check out Norm’s incredib...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (5/3/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
Live from Edinburgh, Scotland this week, where the weather is…Scottish. Please enjoy the following jams from the PlayStations and the Nintendos and of course, the personal computers.
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KVGM “The Last Wave” (4/19/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
This week, we’re livin’ life, lovin’ life on all the consoles, including a stunning return to the Family Computer 64 Double D, as well as some original Family Computer baseball action, some English guides on the...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (4/5/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
Spring has officially sprung and with it, we have plenty of jams to celebrate from the Switch and Wii and Family Computer 64, to the PlayStations 1 and 2, the PC and the PC-1998, and even a brand...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/22/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
Pretty good variety of tracks today from all sorts of consoles, composers, years, genres, regions, reviews, vibes. It’s all here for you to decide how to feel. I ain’t tellin’ ya!
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KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/8/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
March is here, and with it, more jams, leaning fairly heavy into the personal computer but that’s okay because we know where jams are born and a lot of them are born on the PC...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (2/22/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
As the vibration of the universe continues rising, and chaotic energies swirl about, we take a step back to relax and chill out to some great music from mahjong and fashion simulation to a compos...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (2/8/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
This week, we’re a little all over the place in energy levels, with morning vibes, afternoon delights, and evening bliss, plus a little reminiscing, hipster bashing, and the Destiny Draw System.
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KVGM “The Last Wave” (1/25/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
This week, we’re all about DEEP LOVE…what is deep love? How deep can it go? Maybe you find it in classic schmups…maybe you can find it in a customizable robot game? What abo...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (1/11/26)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
New year, new us? No, not really…we’re still the same Last Wave but we’re kicking out new jams. Everything from the Family Computer to the PS4, and everything in between. But we’re easi...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (12/28/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
Tis the season for smooth VGM and on this week’s episode, we’ve got plenty of post-Christmas stocking stuffers as we hit the personal computer pretty hard for a bunch of dirty adult visual...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (12/14/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with another dose of the jammiest in VGM jams, with more Block Knockers, more horseracing, more Yumi Kinoshita and Takeshi Abo, more mahjong, and of cours...
KVGM “The Last Wave” Seven Year Anniversary (11/30/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
This week, we celebrate our SEVENTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY (I think I said six on the podcast so please ignore accordingly) and it’s crazy to think we’re still going strong, although we’re getting clo...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (11/16/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
We’ve got a couple of certified jam masters this week, some unknowns, more soccer, more Team Batista, and a few dirty games for the dirty birds at home. Plus Marmalade Boy – what’s not the love...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (11/2/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
Happy Post-Halloween and it’s somehow already November but that’s okay, that’s alright, we’re still here, the world is still burning, but we’re still churning (see what I did there) out the jam...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (10/19/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
We lean heavy into the PC this week with a couple of nostalgic (for some) simulation games from the late 90s/early 00s but also, a heavy dose of adult-orientated games for the moms and...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (10/5/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
October is here, which means pumpkin spice everything and giant lawn skeletons and government shutdowns and the ongoing collapse of western civilization but we’re jamming out with our yams out and pretending everything...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (9/21/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
As the world burns and turns, we continue pumping out the jams to try to raise the positivity bar a little bit more. This week, we’ve got hospital murder mysteries, mobile mahjong, visual nov...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (9/7/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
As Hammock celebrates the year of his birth, the jams are more than reason to celebrate as we hit up everything from mahjong on the PSX to golfing with greatness on the arcade cabinet...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (8/24/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
This week, we’re staying pretty funky with funky jams from personal computers, PlayStations, Super Family Computers, and 3-dimensional Digital Systems, as well as a very special request from the Personal Computer 1998. All that and m...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (8/10/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
Welcome to August – time sure does fly when you’re jamming out! This week, we hit all the usual adult visual novel fare but also throw in some mahjong, baseball, and digital monsters for good mea...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (7/27/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
A top-tier show this week (in my humble opinion) with some real, to quote today’s youth, bangers…or bootyboppers…or thighslappers…or humdingers. Whatever you want to call a jam. Just don’t say bop. Please...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (7/13/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
Lots to enjoy this week as we cruise through July – the heat is heating up just like the jams, with everything from family restaurants to soccer to very adult PC visual novels.
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KVGM “The Last Wave” (6/29/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
I apologize in advance but some of the games featured in this week’s episode are highly inappropriate and we at the KVGM studio do not condone the immoral behavior displayed in these visual nov...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (6/15/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
We’re pretty Nintendo heavy this week as we explore reading, writing, e-pets, softcore love, bass fishing, fashion and pocket soccer. Plus lots of other great tunes, to help you start summer the right way...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (6/1/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
June is here, the summer interns are back (unfortunately), and the jams keep coming! We’re all over the place on this week’s episode, from the bouncy GBA to fishing on the SNES to mahj...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (5/18/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
This week, we get in a little bit of everything, from fashion design to mahjong, and everything in between, plus another special request. Keep them comin’ – the request line is always open for you (kvgmrad...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (5/4/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
April showers bring May flowers…and more jams, everything from the X68000 to the PlayStation 5. We’ve got robots, detectives, soccer, and of course, dirty visual novels for the dirt birds up in the trees.<...
KVGM “The Last Wave” (4/20/25)
Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of KVGM “The Last Wave”, with your host, Hammock. A biweekly VGM podcast bringing you the jammiest video game music from all your favorite composers and consoles. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.
It’s 4/20, my dudes and dudettes, and you know what that means? It’s time to EXTRA max out and relax all cool to 45-ish minutes of jams!
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