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 ...

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 ...

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, a sub-genre of electronic music, should ideally be both listened to and watched. A still from the Dreamweather track Hazardous Weather Alert. Weather channels once provided a sense of ...

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 ...