Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Band co-founder Alex Westaway, told The Verge that nostalgia was a huge inspiration for the group, but rather ...

I appreciate you being upfront about “casually skimming” this column. Honestly, if you had said “carefully scrutinizing,” or even “avidly reading,” I probably wouldn’t have believed you. Casual ...

If you grew up with “The Goonies,” “Super Mario Bros.” or Cyndi Lauper, you may hear something familiar in synthwave. This niche electronic-music genre, inspired by the sounds of 1980s pop, movies and ...

For years Perturbator has been at the heart of the burgeoning synthwave scene that has crept into the heavily-guarded world of denim and leather. Here we talk to the man himself about why his ...

"Creating music that sounds like a soundtrack to the movie of your life has always been a goal for me" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Music consumption in the 21st century is unrecognisable to previous generations, with huge shifts in the spaces we associate with musical styles and their organic creation. In the ’80s, the places you ...

Neon lights. Fast cars. Moody atmospheres. Violence. Synth tunes. These are the hallmarks of the Outrun aesthetic, a general subgenre born out of synthwave music and 80s movie visuals. Outrun is hard ...

When it comes to the Magic Sword marketing machine, there’s plenty of power under the hood. The three masked, cloaked musicians — The Keeper (keyboards), The Seer (guitars) and The Weaver (drums) — ...

A blink-182 fan recently reimagined “The Rock Show” and “Feeling This” as 1980s synthwave songs. Additionally the YouTube user, MartyCanFly cleverly reworked blink’s name to fit the occasion as ...

Over the past few days, fans of YouTube channel "Lofi Girl" have been frantic over a mystery taking place on the popular relaxing music stream. This morning, the mystery was solved: Lofi Girl has ...