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 ...

The aesthetic niche combining electronic music and digital art finds an ancestor in Surrealism, particularly in the self-taught French painter Yves Tanguy. Vaporwave is about failed promises and ...

AKRON, Ohio (WKRC) - An influential vaporwave producer from Ohio released a new album that recaptured a sound that went viral nearly a decade ago. Akron, Ohio-native Luke Laurila, known for his work ...

Emerging in the early 2010s, vaporwave as a subgenre of electronic music, visual art style, internet meme, and aesthetic can be characterized by its retro-futuristic sounds and imagery. Inspired by ...

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 1984 Louisiana World Exposition glimpsed a future that never arrived, a monorail-powered brave new world championed by a giant talking pelican mascot named Seymore D. Fair. The fair collapsed into ...

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 ...