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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sampling tracks and random sounds from the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s — and even voicemail messages — seems the norm for Washed Out‘s Ernest Greene. But it won’t always be that way. “The new album is slightly ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s no reason to read too much into Pitchfork’s 3.8 rating of Millionyoung’s Replicants — except that there’s every reason to read too much into it. The Hipster Runoff-invented chillwave is beyond ...

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 ...