The oxymoron of the week appeared on page 8 in last Sunday’s Target advertising circular, extolling 15 percent off Just Wireless cables. Lo-fi, another increasingly popular term, makes little sense.

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.

Making the perfect work/study/chill playlist is the finest of arts, which is why, TBH, I've largely stopped trying. Don't get me wrong — I still have a "what I'm listening to now" playlist, a generic ...

My all-time favorite music to listen to while studying has to be lo-fi music! It wasn't until last semester that I was introduced to this genre of music, and it has honestly changed my life. Lo-fi, or ...

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 ...

Lo-Fi Player, a new project out of Google Magenta, wants to help people play around with music creation -- no experience necessary. Lo-Fi Player is a pixelated, 2D virtual room that runs in a web ...

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 ...

These playlists, single-hours-long videos with multiple tracks, all songs with the same theme, are often accompanied by simple, looping animations or slideshow visuals that capture a particular mood, ...

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 ...

A new Google Magenta project (created by an intern!) lets you mix lo-fi, hip-hop music tracks to build a custom music room in your browser, with no musical ability required. Magenta is designed to use ...