When the 2011 hit movie Drive came out with its sleekly time-stamped soundtrack, synthwave got a huge shot in the arm. Furthered by the kind of ’80s revivalism that’s blitzed current pop culture like ...

So much synthwave banks on nostalgia as its chief emotive force; not nostalgia for actual history, but for a revisionist version of the ’80s way more badass and hyperbolic than the reality of how ...

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Timecop1983 has been an enormous influence on synthwave music over the past few years, following the release of his genre-defining 2018 album Night Drive. Since then, the artist has cemented himself ...

A night of cinematic, 80s-influenced cuts by some of the best Retrowave/Synthwave artists out there today. Retrowave (aka Synthwave, Outrun, futuresynth) is italo disco-edged, retrofuturistic synth ...