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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...