Hello Yello

Oakland, California-based trio Hello Yello crafts hazy grunge pop that ignores conventional genre boundaries. Guitar-driven echoes of '90s alternative pop form the core of their approach, yet traces of the members' R&B roots surface across their debut full-length album from 2023, Good Intentions.

The lineup consists of brothers Dylan Wiggins and Jaden Wiggins alongside childhood friend Martin Rodrigues. As sons of D'Wayne Wiggins, the frontman of R&B outfit Tony! Toni! Toné! that enjoyed major success from the late '80s onward through the '90s, the siblings followed a musical trajectory from childhood. Prior to Hello Yello, the pair performed in a group alongside Kehlani and handled various support positions during tours by H.E.R. and Zendaya. Late in the 2010s, the Wiggins brothers joined forces with Rodrigues to launch SMSHNG HRTS, a project that sustained the melodic R&B style the siblings had pursued up to then. The act later transformed into Hello Yello during 2018, shifting away from R&B toward a guitar-centric sound steeped in grunge. Early singles such as "Feel That Again," "Sins," and "I Don't Care" offered melodic, psychedelic alt-rock, which appeared together with additional tracks on the 2019 EP Love Wins. That same year saw the band supporting Clairo and Beabadoobee on tour while issuing the two-song release My Life as a Teenage Robot. A multi-year hiatus followed before their first proper album arrived with 2023's Good Intentions.