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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I used to be with It, until they changed what It was. Now what I am with isn’t It and what is It seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!” No matter how much time you spend trying to keep up ...

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 ...

Vaporwave, a sub-genre of electronic music, should ideally be both listened to and watched. The audio-visual packages serve as a throwback to the lo-fi 1980s and ’90s. The sound is meant to evoke ...

With music being so readily available, easy to produce and, you could argue, disposible in the 21st century, it's unsurprising that genres have splintered off into genres within genres within genres ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the banal ennui of vaporwave with its pioneering ...