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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In the early 2010s, electronic music producer Vektroid — operating under the alias Macintosh Plus ...

“Simpsonwave” is exactly what it sounds like: the collision of the weird, nostalgia- and Tumblr-driven electronic subgenre “vaporwave” and clips from early episodes of The Simpsons, usually with fake ...

Ramona Andra Xavier wants to move beyond music. For the past seven years, Xavier has helped to define vaporwave, a sample-heavy genre of electronic music that repurposes digital relics from the late ...

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 ...

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 ...

This sub-genre has stayed committedly under the radar. It’s making another ‘comeback’ now, with a focus on the weather channel. Vaporwave, a sub-genre of electronic music, should ideally be both ...

Nobody gave The Virtual Krewe of Vaporwave permission to add their krewe crest to the others at the old Mardi Gras Fountain at the Lakefront. They just did it. And they did it so slyly that most ...

"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 ...

Many of the modern cartoons that have connected with audiences are melancholic and beautifully tragic, focusing on characters’ deepest issues and turning away from traditional narrative storytelling ...