Can a certain sound, made by a particular instrument, sum up an entire era? It seems unlikely, yet think about those opening notes of Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F" from "Beverly Hills Cop" or Brad ...

Hank Whitson is a pop culture omnivore, gaming geek, escapism nerd, and unrepentant anime addict who has been writing for Game Rant since 2020. He plays and writes about literally everything, but ...

A blink-182 fan recently reimagined “The Rock Show” and “Feeling This” as 1980s synthwave songs. Additionally the YouTube user, MartyCanFly cleverly reworked blink’s name to fit the occasion as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Band co-founder Alex Westaway, told The Verge that nostalgia was a huge inspiration for the group, but rather than recreate the past, they used “it more as a tone in the sound palate, rather than ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...