Streams of chill, endless hip-hop beats set to visuals of animated characters have taken over YouTube, beloved by millions of users who listen to these videos while working or trying to fall asleep.

The Vaporwave album Conditions at Hickory begins with static, as if you’re tuning in to a 1940s radio broadcast. First and second tracks “Foothills” and “Daily Commute” start out humdrum and benign ...

These playlists, single-hours-long videos with multiple tracks, all songs with the same theme, are often accompanied by simple, looping animations or slideshow visuals that capture a particular mood, ...

After raising just shy of $1 million on Kickstarter in 2021, the Tidbyt has arrived — and it’s actually a useful, hackable, surprisingly pleasant gadget that can help fill a niche we didn’t really ...

In the mid-2010s, when I was in high school, the genre known as lo-fi beats was like a brain cleanse for all my time spent mainlining Minecraft and YouTube. The music was tender, with drums sizzling ...

To the relief of millions of YouTubers and people who need a study time playlist - a well-known music channel is back online. Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin. To the relief of millions of YouTubers, a ...

If there is one thing that marketers and consumers alike agree is that we are living in the age of ad ubiquity. Marketers have uncountable tools to track, map, analyse and target consumers almost ...

A delight for cinephiles, the documentary recounts the creation of Bong's first short film during a period of unfettered love for movies in Korea. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief Netflix has a ...

Rain98 is a lo-fi psycho-thriller romance adventure set in ’90s Tokyo. In a chill but dark apartment room, you’re joined by Reina Amehara (voiced by Rio Tsuchiya), a girl with a mysterious and ...

A grainy camcorder reveals dark corners where ghosts (or worse, people) hide, ready to pounce. A soft, analogue aesthetic creates the intimacy between story and viewer—we are there, behind a veil of ...