PC Music is bringing its annual Halloween celebration back in 2026, expanding POP CRYPT into a three-city event for the first time. Dubbed POP CRYPT: CRYPT CUBE, this year’s series will take place across New York, Los Angeles and London, with a lineup that brings together key figures from PC Music’s past and present alongside artists from the wider experimental pop and electronic underground.
The series will begin at Knockdown Center in New York on October 29, where PC Music founder A. G. Cook and Sophia Stel will headline a bill featuring Hudson Mohawke, umru, GRRL, Holly Waxwing and THELIMITDOESNOTEXIST. The following night, October 30, the event moves to 1720 in Los Angeles, with ZIRP!, Dorian Electra performing a DJ set, POBBLES, HYD, Astra King and Count Baldor on the bill.
The final event will take place on Halloween itself, October 31, at Colour Factory in London. Sophia Stel will return for the London edition alongside Babymorocco, GFOTY, Iglooghost, GRRL, Moriah Mensah, Nömak, Samuel Organ, Whybray and Dionokia. The London lineup is particularly notable for the inclusion of GFOTY, one of the early and most recognisable figures associated with the PC Music universe.
The expansion is significant given PC Music’s unusual position in contemporary music. Founded by Cook in 2013, the London label became one of the defining forces behind the sound and aesthetics that would eventually be grouped under the increasingly broad banner of hyperpop. Its maximalist approach to pop music, characterised by hyper-digital production, exaggerated vocals, synthetic textures and an intentionally artificial visual language, helped create a new space between underground electronic music and mainstream pop.
