Rob Kovacs

On this week’s Shuffle, we catch up with Cleveland pianist Rob Kovacs. He's also known as 88-bit for his piano arrangements of classic Nintendo video game themes. This past year, he launched a solo career with an album 10 years in the making, 'Let Go.'

Cleveland.com's music writer, Annie Nickoloff, shares four of her favorite local albums of the year so far, and has details about the return of Cleveland's Wonderstruck music festival. Artists featured in this episode: Uno Lady, The Sonder Bombs, Rob Kovacs, Juice Newson.

A classically trained Cleveland pianist is creating masterpieces out of classic video game music.Rob Kovacs is a composer and piano teacher who grew up a…