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 ...
If you had to hazard a guess, how many music genres would you say exist today? There’s pop, rock, jazz and folk, R&B, hip hop... classical music, the blues, EDM. Vaporware has its own style of album ...
Most people know Michael Nesmith as the Monkee in the green wool hat who wrote some of their greatest songs (“Listen to the Band,” “Circle Sky”) and sat out most of their reunion tours. Others know ...
The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Electronic music isn’t as widespread as guitar-driven music, but University of ...
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 ...
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.
Where were you when seapunk died? Let’s never forget how Twitter shuddered like a baby that just got its favorite toy yanked away, then exploded into a histrionic chorus of WAH WAH RIHANNA STOLE MY ...
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 ...
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