Writing about vaporwave in 2016 is almost impossible. Neophytes often seem baffled by the genre, assuming they've heard of it at all. Meanwhile, fans insist that vaporwave is dead. How do you write ...

The aesthetic niche combining electronic music and digital art finds an ancestor in Surrealism, particularly in the self-taught French painter Yves Tanguy. Vaporwave is about failed promises and ...

In this accompaniment to his Year in the Online Underground piece, Adam Harper—the premier writer on new, emergent, underground music—reflects on the year in vaporwave and selects his favorites.

The Vaporwave album Conditions at Hickory begins with static, as if you’re tuning in to a 1940s radio broadcast. First and second tracks “Foothills” and “Daily Commute” start out humdrum and benign ...

Last month Chaz Allen played a Web-only vaporwave concert from his bedroom with six artists he's never met. Credit: Alison Green Vaporwave, to the extent it can be said to still exist, is sample based ...

Sterling Campbell had co-founded a cassette label and a VHS tape label in Ottawa, but needed a new creative outlet after moving back to Cornwall, Ontario, to be closer to his daughter. “I was like, ‘I ...

Vaporwave is a modern subculture born on the internet that's largely remained online until now. This past weekend, 100% ElectroniCON — the first-ever vaporwave music festival — took place in Brooklyn, ...

"I just watched the Fyre Fest doc," George Clanton tells me backstage near the start of his own potentially madcap takeover of Brooklyn's enormous three-room club Elsewhere with the world's largest ...