Welcome to Pop Quiz, a new recurring series where we sit down notable folks about town and force them to take a geeky pop culture test. Today we feature electronic maven William Fucking Reed. The ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yeasayer, who first broke into the Brooklyn music scene in 2007 with their Middle Eastern-tinged debut All Hour Cymbals, have been creating eerie, intriguingly-textured electronic music ever since ...

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 ...

The recent release of Ernest Greene's first Washed Out album has caused a lot of critics and fans to once again consider "chillwave"-- the subgenre we laughed and groaned and wondered about until time ...

Nostalgia is a tricky word.” Mike Diaz takes a long pause and surveys his surroundings. It’s an unseasonably warm, cloudless day in late November, and we’re seated on a park bench at the edge of a ...

Better than: Getting my phone stolen on the way to the show. In the age of the wireless router, traces of our recent cultural past (’80s pop videos, ’90s Reading Rainbow episodes, Aughts Geocities ...