Exercises, a new mini-album by the Montreal musician CFCF (Mike Silver) for Toronto’s Paper Bag Records, is a masterpiece of restraint. With stately piano melodies informed by Ryuichi Sakamoto and ...

When most people think of late 2000s and early 2010s chillwave and synthwave music, one often thinks of artists like Washed Out, Toro y Moi, and Neon Indian. If you were a young adult (like me) at the ...

Unlike fellow chillwave artists Neon Indian and Washed Out, who occasionally create indulgent synth atmospheres, Toro Y Moi (aka Chaz Bundick) specializes in tunes that are muscular and… By Billboard ...

Opening act Washed Out showed how a 1980s synth-pop sound, so in vogue these days, works well live. Despite the mumbled vocals, the textural polyphony of chillwave synthesizer tracks sounded marvelous ...

Courtesy Caleb Rudd/Flickr So what’s chillwave? That question provokes a common reaction when the musical term makes its way into conversation. Those reasonably tuned in to what’s going on in music ...

Alan Palomo is nothing if not creative. The mastermind behind Neon Indian (and VEGA and Ghosthustler before it) always seems up to something to push boundaries, be it in Neon Indian’s helping blaze ...

It was really only a matter of time before chillwave found its way to South Florida. A fledgling, blog-fueled movement, chillwave — also known as glo-fi or hypnagogic pop — is an offshoot of the synth ...

Hiding behind a small storefront in northeast Los Angeles, there's a whole world of synthesizers... (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) CHANG: ...Keyboards upon keyboards stacked from floor to ceiling and racks of ...