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.
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 ...
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 ...
Electronic music isn’t as widespread as guitar-driven music, but University of Georgia alumnus Jeff Cardinal shows there’s plenty of people deeply immersed in this musical style. He graduated with a ...
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, ...
It appears that, even in 2018, vaporwave is still hot. The latest game following along with this trend is Vaporwave Simulator. What exactly do you do in Vaporwave Simulator? Basically, you're free to ...