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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Emerging in the early 2010s, vaporwave as a subgenre of electronic music, visual art style, internet meme, and aesthetic can be characterized by its retro-futuristic sounds and imagery. Inspired by ...