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 ...

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 ...

What started as a creative outlet for James Bookert while working at a liquor store in Austin, Texas, has grown into San ...

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 ...

Take one D.C. hardcore punk screamer, one Brooklyn hip-hop producer and sound engineer, a spoonful of summer spirit, a bottled-up idea of what chillwave should sound like, a dash of a potent gin drink ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Guida is a fresh-faced Melbournian with an extensive VHS and video game collection. He makes darling chilled-out electronic music under the name Leaks. His forthcoming Jaunt EP, released ...

Andrew Matson: on Twitter: @andrewmatson. Andrew Matson is a freelance contributor to The Seattle Times, NPR, The Stranger and other outlets. He remembers vividly when Seattle rock scene fixtures told ...