Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of ...

As the first artist that was not Animal Collective to release an album on Animal Collective's Paw Tracks imprint, L.A.'s Ariel Rosenberg spent the past decade reissuing his stock of eight-track ...

New York-based lo-fi quartet LVL UP are carefree and nonchalant on the surface. In fact, their name came from a Facebook chat between band members Mike Caridi and Dave Benton on the rationale of “fuck ...

Canadian multimedia artist Annika Zee has been crafting solo and collaborative work since 2013, but come January 22, she’ll finally release her debut EP, Aging Aesthetics. Bookending its sung-through ...

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 ...

Kids are home, offices are shuttered, and the news is a parade of horrors. That makes the pandemic the perfect recipe for stress and lack of productivity. It also makes it the perfect time for lo-fi ...

Longtime heads who fell in love with lo-fi beats and delicately craft it themselves are starting to panic. Obsessives on the Reddit forum for lo-fi beats, which banned AI submissions late last year, ...

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 ...

Music has long been recognized for its ability to influence emotions and cognitive function. But for individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...

Music has long been recognized for its ability to influence emotions and cognitive function. But for individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...