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.

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 ...

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 ...