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.

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Emerging in the early 2010s, vaporwave as a subgenre of electronic music, visual art style, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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