Making the perfect work/study/chill playlist is the finest of arts, which is why, TBH, I've largely stopped trying. Don't get me wrong — I still have a "what I'm listening to now" playlist, a generic ...
This post is part of Hard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter. I'm the type of person who loves to have music ...
A creative fan of twenty one pilots is taking their Suicide Squad track “Heathens” and building it into a lo-fi hip-hop track. YouTube musician and producer MarkyPaligs is remixing the track giving a ...
Lofi hip-hop is here to stay. The instrumental blend of traditional hip-hop and jazz has notably made its mark on Spotify, where the “Lofi Fruits” playlist by indie record label Strange Fruits Music ...
Like all mutating scenes, the lo-fi movement in hip-hop began as something far different from what it has become. In the beginning, it was purely an aesthetic choice. Beatmakers like J Dilla, Nujabes, ...
Dion Lewis was trying to make the best out of a difficult situation. Last August, when a storm left his Chicago neighborhood without electricity for a week, he improvised. Lewis had recently created a ...
As someone who once did a 9½-hour set in Japan, Mark Farina says that he can still go the distance — even at the ripe ol’ age of 53. However, the veteran, globe-trotting disc jockey says that, these ...
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 ...
Chef Shota Nakajima really likes cooking for people, which happens to benefit all of the grateful diners who flock to both of his Seattle restaurants. “Going to the store and thinking about making ...