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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DEL MAR, Calif. — From San Diego’s San Carlos neighborhood to cities around the world, producer, songwriter and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hipster irony meets dreamy psychedelia this month as we investigate peak blog relevance in the form of chillwave When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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 ...