GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. After its official announcement at Gamescom in August, Gearbox has shared more about Borderlands 4 as part of its Main Theatre Show at PAX West. While ...

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 end of the annus horribilis 2022 brought the closure of Ronette's Psychedelic Sock Hop, Hotel Albatross, and Victory Lounge—huge blows to Seattle's music scene. (In addition, Bar House's landlord ...

When Ben Kitnick first hung out at lo-fi art space and weirdo hangout Funny World last year, the ASU film student thought the house-show haven was a fascinating place. So much so that he immediately ...

If it couldn't have been built on the original 'Alien' set in 1979, it won't be in Alien: Isolation ...

YouTube’s lo-fi hip-hop community has for years offered a place to virtually gather, do homework, and find comfort in the random messages of strangers that populate in live chats. Now, as we’re all ...

J Dilla's legacy as a hip-hop producer and artist continues to be examined. The contributions he made to artists and groups like A Tribe Called Quest, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, and The Roots, as well as ...

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 ...

Since the earliest days of online influencers in the late 2000s, internet stardom has taken many forms. From fashion bloggers to lifestyle YouTubers, Instagram models and TikTok stars, trends within ...

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 ...

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 ...