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 ...

Last month Chaz Allen played a Web-only vaporwave concert from his bedroom with six artists he's never met. Credit: Alison Green Vaporwave, to the extent it can be said to still exist, is sample based ...

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 ...

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.