In 2011, a Paste writer prophesied that Washed Out would “still be around when ‘chillwave’ has gone the way of ‘dance-punk.’” Nine years later, that prediction has held pretty true. Listening to ...

It’s almost too fitting that one of the 2010s’ most explicitly nostalgic musical trends technically took hold in the previous decade. In the middle of 2009, indie culture was awash in The Summer of ...

Ernest Greene cites some unlikely influences for Washed Out, his mellow musical project. “At its core it’s psychedelic music,” says Greene, whose debut EP (2009’s “Life of Leisure”), and first ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Somehow, Washed Out made chillwave go even chiller on Paracosm, the second full-length effort from ...

When Ernest Greene arrives at 9:30 Club this week, he’ll be about halfway through a journey out of his comfort zone. “I’m not a huge fan of touring,” admits the synth-pop musician, who records under ...

I honestly thought "glo-fi" was gonna stick, y'all. This was the first name I recall being given to a weed-scented wave of music that emerged out of nowhere before it was seemingly everywhere during ...

Better Than: Staying in another night and downloading “witch haus” or whatever other new Internet-only genre threatens to supplant “chillwave” October is upon us, which means the rapid-fire onslaught ...

There's no nice way to say this, but during a busier week, Paracosm, the second album from Washed Out, wouldn't have gotten that Album Of The Week nod. During next ...

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 ...