Depending on whom you ask, lo-fi hip-hop is a creative feat of the internet age, a punchline, or a meaningless label tacked on to souped-up elevator music. The genre started roughly a decade ago among ...

It’s very hard to focus on e-mail correspondence when you’re blasting a Lizzo song in your ears. Believe me, I’ve tried. But it’s also mind-numbing to not have music at all. Time seems to go three ...

You know when you go through photos the morning after a party and the blurry ones bring back clearer memories than their well-taken counterparts? That is the only way to describe the allure of ...

Slowed and reverb and lo-fi hip-hop share some distinct similarities, with both subgenres birthing their own subcultures online, and becoming the soundtrack to Generation Z. On TikTok, the hashtag for ...

These playlists, single-hours-long videos with multiple tracks, all songs with the same theme, are often accompanied by simple, looping animations or slideshow visuals that capture a particular mood, ...

Streams of chill, endless hip-hop beats set to visuals of animated characters have taken over YouTube, beloved by millions of users who listen to these videos while working or trying to fall asleep.

We live in a post-internet world that’s changing the landscape for artists. Fame and virality once reserved for premium productions and big names are slowly making their way out of billboards and ...

Love it or hate it, lo-fi house has been the all-permeating sound of the underground in 2016 – but a recent batch of artists have been discussed more for their jokey names and apparently ironic ...