On Dec. 4, electro-pop outfit 100 Gecs released a new holiday-themed song, “Sympathy 4 the Grinch.” The track by the duo Dylan Brady and Laura Les is an impossibly fast and frenetic number that welds ...

"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 ...

Years before it became associated with an algorithm-driven playlist on streaming services, hyperpop was an unruly and nebulous internet subculture driven by independent musicians obsessed with pop ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hyperpop Evolution: The origins of hyperpop, as is the case with every other genre, are tough to nail down. It’s generally accepted that it was born in the UK, sometime during the 2010s. But the ...

Suppose punk rock had never caught on. Suppose the existing punk luminaries had made kitschy keyboard music — hyperpop — instead. The result might have sounded like 100 gecs, a boy-girl duo from the ...

“Looking for Subculture?” asks a bouncer at the L.A. club Catch One. “In more ways than one,” I reply as I pull out my ticket to the hyperpop rave happening inside. As a turquoise band is wrapped ...

The Fonda Theatre was nothing short of ablaze with energy as the North Carolinian artist performed a mix of emotional and upbeat pieces. (Ash Dunlap / Daily Trojan) In a collision of lights, synth and ...