It's something any child of the '90s can picture: computer-generated dolphins diving into a pixelated, purple-and-pink sea; sprinkled ghostly vestiges of Windows 95 ...

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 ...

It’s a little hard to describe the appeal of vaporwave as a music genre. Endlessly looped bits of Diana Ross and slowed-down Japanese commercial muzak isn’t exactly Top 40 material. But visually, ...

Today, Evan Hemsley—an L.A.-based musician and video game programmer—debuts vapor.fm, a 24/7 site devoted to all things vaporwave. Hemsley says he was drawn into the world of vaporwave after a friend ...

Before any of the in-your-face vaporwave aesthetic of Skate Story has a chance to overflow my senses, I am struck by something surprising—the sound of skateboard wheels rolling across a slightly ...

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.