The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Electronic music isn’t as widespread as guitar-driven music, but University of ...

Sterling Campbell is already the co-founder of a cassette label and VHS tape label in Ottawa. But when he wanted to embark on a new creative venture, he knew just what he needed to do. "I wanted to do ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...