Hyperpop might be peppered with pitched up vocals and saccharin melodies, but it’s also partial to some pretty edgy and extreme sounds. Regular beats are often turned into saturated hits or punchy ...

Rising Chicago hyperpop sensation Fraxiom had a hell of a weekend. On Saturday, they performed alongside the likes of Charli XCX, 100 Gecs, Aaron Cartier, and Clairo as part of Appleville, a virtual ...

In 2019, Spotify launched a hyperpop playlist, featuring a wide scope of artists as well as guest curations from 100 gecs, Cook and more. This collection further proved that the undefinable sound of ...

Hyperpop is a generation-defining style of music that reflects Generation Z’s nihilistic disposition toward the issues of our time. It is as ironic and self-satirizing as we are. It reflects our ...

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 ...

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 ...

From SOPHIE, Charli XCX and Dorian Electra to 100 gecs, food house and osquinn, get to know the 15 records that define hyperpop. One of the biggest misconceptions about hyperpop is that it’s new. Sure ...

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, ...

In 2014, music fans and critics began paying close attention to a mysterious group of artists who’d started releasing tracks online. They were part of PC Music, a loose electronic-music collective ...

In music and on roller coasters, speediness makes for the fun kind of scariness. When young punk rockers raised on the Ramones began to play their own music in the early 1980s, the rat-a-tat rumble of ...