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 ...

As the Recording Academy honors Fela Kuti posthumously, it reminds us that culture doesn’t wait for institutions to catch up. Contributing to that introduction is the recent rise of lo-fi hip-hop ...

Depending on whom you ask, lo-fi hip-hop is a creative feat of the internet age, a punchline, or a meaningless label tacked on to souped-up elevator music. The genre started roughly a decade ago among ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though the term 'lo-fi' was thrown around, back then, it was more of a descriptor of a no-frills sonic aesthetic than any sort of ...

This post is part of Hard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter. I'm the type of person who loves to have music ...

Dion Lewis was trying to make the best out of a difficult situation. Last August, when a storm left his Chicago neighborhood without electricity for a week, he improvised. Lewis had recently created a ...