James Cody Lollar, known by his shadowy synthwave alter-ego GosT, has passed away, aged 46. Coming up through the scene that spawned the likes of Perturbator and Carpenter Brut, GosT made a name for ...

James is a writer for GameRant. He fell in love with video games as a child and has yet to recover. He is still obsessed with Ocarina Of Time and regularly lectures people on how Metal Gear Solid ...

Lofi Girl’s world just keeps getting bigger and bigger. The YouTube channel known for the online radio stream “lofi hip hop radio — beats to relax/study to” launched two new music streams on Monday.

It was a normal Monday morning: Lofi Girl, as she always does, sits at her desk studying. She’ll glance out the window and turn the page of her notebook, all while her orange cat lazily peers out the ...

Grace is a Guides Staff Writer from New Zealand with a love for fiction and storytelling. Grace has been playing games since childhood and enjoys a range of different genres and titles. From pick your ...

Neon lights. Fast cars. Moody atmospheres. Violence. Synth tunes. These are the hallmarks of the Outrun aesthetic, a general subgenre born out of synthwave music and 80s movie visuals. Outrun is hard ...

I once witnessed someone describe synthwave to an unwitting friend as an entire genre of music based on doing cocaine in Miami in the 1980s. Michael Glover took that inspiration quite literally when ...

Music consumption in the 21st century is unrecognisable to previous generations, with huge shifts in the spaces we associate with musical styles and their organic creation. In the ’80s, the places you ...

If you grew up with “The Goonies,” “Super Mario Bros.” or Cyndi Lauper, you may hear something familiar in synthwave. This niche electronic-music genre, inspired by the sounds of 1980s pop, movies and ...