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 ...

“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 ...

"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 ...

These days, we’re living in Charli XCX’s world. The singer’s jaunt to Cannes and sold-out Boiler Room set all helped drum up hype for her album, Brat, which was released to instant critical acclaim.

Some mainstream attention to hyperpop has certainly given more light to the genre, bringing new audiences to it (like myself) that may have otherwise gone oblivious to such chronically-online sounds.