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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We here at Rocks Off try to stay abreast of as many up-and-coming genres as we can for the sake of attempting universal coverage (and we do it all for you), but sometimes even we gets blindsided. This ...

It seems like a distant memory, but there was a time when internet blogs could legitimately influence music discourse. Long before streaming services and their algorithms decentralized public opinion, ...

It was really only a matter of time before chillwave found its way to South Florida. A fledgling, blog-fueled movement, chillwave — also known as glo-fi or hypnagogic pop — is an offshoot of the synth ...

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 ...

In their recent celebration of the 2010s, the website Pitchfork published a piece about the lasting influence of Chillwave on modern music. The genre, characterized by warbly, lo-fi, 80’s neon-lit ...

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