A display of ego from Wolfhard, though, is scarcely egotistical at all. He’s much too nice to be a narcissist. Happy Birthday humbly ambles along, telling stories rooted to his personal neuroses at ...

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.

Before “lo-fi” was a genre, Dilla was living it - through offbeat rhythms, dusty samples, and soulful imperfection. Here’s ...

Not exactly a sampler, not exactly a synth, Lo-Fi provides approaches from both worlds to manipulate its bountiful selection of mussed-up sounds. It’s all you could possibly need to brew up some ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Among the visual styles that have characterised successive eras of gaming, some have aged better than others.

The Larkin Restaurant in Albany, open for decades as a political watering hole and for a few years a cherished destination for live music, has been vacant for two decades. It is being taken over by ...

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. I don’t usually work with any music — it often distracts me — but recently, ...

Rain98 is a lo-fi psycho-thriller romance adventure set in ’90s Tokyo. In a chill but dark apartment room, you’re joined by Reina Amehara (voiced by Rio Tsuchiya), a girl with a mysterious and ...