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 ...

The synthwave genre has evolved a lot in the past decade. Retro blast-beat pop songs from the 1980s were retroactively cool, but it wasn’t until the release of 2011 movie Drive which really pushed the ...