Death of the IG Party Flyer
Magazine RackA night with the Wedding Planners, an NYC collective with roots in hyperpop using email lists, zines, and word-of-mouth promotion to build a scene outside of social media and streaming.
2023/12/07
“Hyperpop was maybe the most online a scene has ever been; the internet was the location, the city where hyperpop blew up. The next logical progression of the scene is to tether it to a real place.”—underscores
Art: Rasmus Svensson
“Everything was fucked up after COVID. The hyperpop scene was dying. Everyone was freaking out about Dimes Square and Perfectly Imperfect. With the Drunken Canal and Meet Me in The Bathroom and Freakquencies, there was this sense of urgency around physical media. We wanted to throw a basement show but without all of that snarky, ironic, faux-counterculture stuff.”—Matt Lorence
Art: Rasmus Svensson
“Our goal was never an ‘i-D’ write up. We just wanted to play for people who wanted to be there. And people kept showing up, week after week.”
