From Afrobeats meeting pop to hyperpop colliding with hip-hop, genre-blending is no longer the exception—it’s the sound of the moment. Technology, streaming, and cultural cross-pollination are fueling ...

Underscores, the musical pen name of April Harper Grey, has quickly risen to the top of the growing hyperpop genre. Her 2021 debut album “fishmonger” brought a breath of fresh air to the genre, ...

What started as a way to categorize "genre-less" music has evolved into a music phenomenon After coining the term in 2019, Spotify left many of us wondering, "What is hyperpop?" What started as a way ...

Jane Remover and underscores: both young, both producing music since they were even younger and both pioneers in the hyperpop landscape. With the release of their respective debut albums in 2021, ...

Reviews may call it unforgiving and harsh, maximalist and blown-out, high-pitched and squeaky, electronic and glitchy. While these terms are sometimes applicable, the genre of hyperpop’s most defining ...

Artists don’t necessarily set out to create new genres, but in the case of hyperpop it’s not hard to trace the genre back to a handful of like-minded individuals associated with DIY music label PC ...

Gutierrez chose the stage name Glaive, a reference to a weapon from Dark Souls III. In July, he released his debut album, I Care So Much That I Don’t Care At All, on the major label Interscope. Now 18 ...

"Being music," in the all-encompassing sense, seems to be the aspiration of the genre 100 gecs has come to represent: hyperpop. Since the 2010s, that name has been a controversial catch-all for a ...

Hyperpop heroes 100 gecs are coming back home to St. Louis with a show at The Pageant this Saturday, April 15, with Machine Girl opening. This tour comes on the heels of their sophomore album, 10,000 ...

When I first started listening to hyperpop, I couldn’t figure out what to make of the genre. At the time, I was deep into my second High Fidelity rewatch — TV show, not the movie — and my Spotify was ...