Chillwave, at least as a term, started as a joke. Ten years since the net-pop genre’s biggest summer, that part of its history is well remembered. Blog-provocateur-cum-cultural-critic Carles coined ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone who fears that all the best genre names have already been taken might have had their suspicions confirmed while ­reading recent blogs describing a loosely ­defined new sound: lo-fi but pop; ...

Guardian journalism is independent. We earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. In a summer riven by financial meltdown, a niche trend for lo-fi retro pop couldn’t ...

The definitive statement of intent from the Vibe Generation came, ironically, from a guy with a guitar. “I was raised up believing/ I was somehow unique,” the 29-year-old Robin Pecknold, the frontman ...

Even a cursory glance at the major websites purveying in music criticism will show the veritable litany of classifications. Musical taxonomy is becoming increasingly complicated, as it seems that even ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...