With bedroom-produced DIY tracks topping the streaming charts and explosive distortion the new norm on TikTok, is sound quality becoming irrelevant in 2026?

If you want to try your hand at building a lo-fi track, then beats are a solid place to start. The good news is that these beats don’t need to be complex - in fact they really shouldn't be. This means ...

We’ve all seen that anime girl studying at her desk, headphones on, with the ginger cat chilling beside her. The LoFi music culture is now widespread, and there is a beat for every occasion, but it’s ...

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has only been out for a week, but musicians have already made a lofi take on some of the game’s tracks. The album “LoFi of the Kingdom” runs through a number ...

Lofi hip-hop is here to stay. The instrumental blend of traditional hip-hop and jazz has notably made its mark on Spotify, where the “Lofi Fruits” playlist by indie record label Strange Fruits Music ...

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 ...

YouTube’s lo-fi hip-hop community has for years offered a place to virtually gather, do homework, and find comfort in the random messages of strangers that populate in live chats. Now, as we’re all ...