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 ...

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 ...

When most people think of late 2000s and early 2010s chillwave and synthwave music, one often thinks of artists like Washed Out, Toro y Moi, and Neon Indian. If you were a young adult (like me) at the ...

Deep Cuts mix things up and go further into chill wave on new E.P. Credit: Photo by Anthony Flores Chillwave might be a genre you’re not familiar with, and that’s okay. The truth is, that there are so ...

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Recording as Toro y Moi, Chaz Bundick breathed sensual life into the chillwave craze circa 2009. But this quiet, unassuming South Carolina native, whose chopped and screwed electro-pop has skewed more ...

Last summer, Pitchfork launched Altered Zones, a site dedicated to the “explosion of small-scale DIY music”: all those recent protean micro-genres that reach a hardcore audience through ultra-limited ...

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 ...

With "Paracosm," Georgia chillwave hero Washed Out gets in touch with his acoustic roots and masters the not-quite concept album. By Reggie Ugwu After years of careful rebellion against his origins, ...

Photoshop 2022 tutorial showing how to create a haunting, retro, Chillwave graphic. Chillwave is a music and art microgenre that emerged in the late 2000s. It loosely emulates 1980s electropop while ...