It’s almost too fitting that one of the 2010s’ most explicitly nostalgic musical trends technically took hold in the previous decade. In the middle of 2009, indie culture was awash in The Summer of ...

It couldn’t have been too surprising that the genre known as chillwave faded out of conversation a couple years after being formulated: After all, it was never a particularly stable term to begin with ...

I honestly thought "glo-fi" was gonna stick, y'all. This was the first name I recall being given to a weed-scented wave of music that emerged out of nowhere before it was seemingly everywhere during ...

Courtesy Caleb Rudd/Flickr So what’s chillwave? That question provokes a common reaction when the musical term makes its way into conversation. Those reasonably tuned in to what’s going on in music ...

スクウェア・エニックスは、リミックス・アレンジ「SQ」シリーズの音楽商品「SQ Relax - Krystell’s Chillwave」を2026年3月4日に発売する。 本作は、忙しい日々の隙間に心地よい音楽を届ける、癒しのリミックス・アルバムだ。ジャケットを飾るのは、SQUARE ENIX ...

Too often, music genres with names of little cultural meaning will appear. For every “punk,” “Britpop” or “new wave,” there are 10 genres whose nomenclature is fabricated by the press. These are often ...

The 2000s were a truly fruitful period for birthing several new genres with outlandish and obtuse monikers. With the rapid development of the Internet age, the entire landscape of the music industry ...

In a summer riven by financial meltdown, a niche trend for lo-fi retro pop couldn’t have seemed more trivial. Yet it was the first sign of a generation fleeing to the past to escape a bleak future The ...

Last July, a blogger named Carles, writing for the site Hipster Runoff, clustered together a handful of up-and-coming bands with a similar sound and recording approach and, by most accounts, birthed a ...