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 ...

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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In the early 2010s, a sense of yearning for the recent past captured the attention of Internet users worldwide. The retro revival set its sights and sounds on the 1980s and ’90s, rebooting the decades ...

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.

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 ...

There's no denying that Michael Nesmith is a unique character. At 75, he's accomplished a lot as a businessman, cultural figure and, of course, a songwriter for the Monkees. At this point in his ...

It’s 10 p.m. on a weeknight, and I’m in front of a bright 17-inch monitor, inside a crowded cybercafé or internet café or whatever you want to call it. Beside me are a group of college students ...

Quintana will perform "Interdimensional Baths" show at III Points MATF 2016 (video screenshot) It's to be the first ever retail mall dedicated to the vaporwave music and fashion movement: visual ...

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 ...