For the last year or so, it’s been the best-kept concentration secret among young people: If you need to study, then it’s a lo-fi hip-hop playlist you seek. It’s a phenomenon born on YouTube, which is ...

Lo-fi stands for low fidelity. Music that's considered lo-fi falls somewhere along the definition of distorted beats and technical flaws being looped that create a pretty cool unique sound people can ...

Last fall, the students in one of my writing classes alerted me to a wildly popular YouTube channel, run by an organization called Chillhop Music. The channel’s description was gentle, unassuming: “We ...

YouTuber Michelle Phan was one of the first beauty gurus on the platform. A decade later, amid continuing to create videos ...

The term "ambient" music was first coined in the late '70s by influential British artist Brian Eno, who described it as music created to "induce calm and space to think." Since then, the genre has ...

You won’t need to visit Urban Dictionary to know what chill out means. But this invitation to relax came to signify a certain kind of horizontal, downbeat electronic music that came about as club ...

ChilledCow is the YouTube creator responsible for the incredibly popular, possibly paradigm-shifting YouTube stream "lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to." Over the weekend, their entire ...