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 ...

If you’ve been scrolling through playlists lately, you might have noticed something odd. The old genre walls are crumbling.

Last spring, Elliott Platt was cleaning fish tanks at his local pet store when he received the luckiest news of his young life. He’d been laid off. COVID cutbacks: a tale as old as 2020 itself. With ...

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 ...

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, ...

Last spring, Elliott Platt was cleaning fish tanks at his local pet store when he received the luckiest news of his young life. He’d been laid off. COVID cutbacks: a tale as old as 2020 itself. With ...