Before kurtains reached the end of his set, the crowd joined him in singing ”Happy Birthday” to glaive, who celebrated his ...

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 ...

The microgenre — fueled by teen upstarts like osquinn and glaive, and more established names like 100 gecs and A.G. Cook — has a modest but dedicated following, and many different kinds of sounds. By ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Glaive’s grades suffered so that his music could thrive. Attending high school virtually last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this restless teenage musician — now a breakout act from 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 ...