Hunter posted a number of songs to
SoundCloud between 2012 and 2016. They also fronted an
emo side project, 11:59, that was sporadically active from 2014 to 2019.
We Are The Union In 2015, Hunter joined the ska punk band
We Are the Union on trombone and backing vocals, marking their return from a three-year hiatus. Later in 2019, Hunter returned to
The Fest with Skatune Network, backed by members of We Are The Union and billed alongside
Against Me!,
Bad Cop/Bad Cop,
Jawbreaker,
Less Than Jake,
Dag Nasty,
Joyce Manor, and
Screaming Females; In February 2023, Hunter collaborated with fellow YouTube musician
Ali Spagnola on a ska cover of
Taylor Swift's "
Anti-Hero". They have been a musical guest at
MAGFest in 2020 and 2023. The subjects of Hunter's Skatune Network covers are eclectic and wide-ranging, encompassing
1980s pop music,
emo, and
R&B as well as songs and
theme music from films, television shows, and
video games. John Ochoa of
Vice noted that Hunter's "range of genres" and "self-aware exploitation of
meme and
internet culture, like
Steven Universe and
Adventure Time stan communities" has helped Skatune Network find greater exposure beyond ska and punk circles. "R/Edgelord was officially released as the project's first single on September 18, with We Are The Union's Reade Wolcott producing and
tenor saxophone from
Abraskadabra's Thiago "Trosso" de Sá Jorge; a debut studio album was tentatively announced for 2021. and "A Message to My Future Self" on December 11. In a February 2022 interview, Hunter mentioned that the JER album was still "in the works", and that the project was "a lot more personal" than their previous work. Two more singles, "Decolonize Yr Mind" featuring Oceanator and "Nobody Can Dull My Sparkle", were released in advance of the album. Produced by Wolcott, the album did not feature any of the three previous singles but instead featured nine new songs as well as a cover of
Jimmy Cliff's "
You Can Get It If You Really Want."
Pitchfork's Nina Corcoran called it "a modern classic in the ska-punk canon", and music critic
Anthony Fantano awarded the album an 8/10 score In June 2022, Hunter joined ska band and Bad Time labelmate Kill Lincoln for an
East Coast/
Midwest tour, including a
BrooklynVegan-presented show at
Saint Vitus in New York. They subsequently performed at the 2023
South by Southwest, alongside acts including
Algiers, We Are the Union,
Be Your Own Pet,
Blondshell,
The Callous Daoboys,
Cheekface,
Conway the Machine,
Eshu Tune,
Flo Milli,
Genesis Owusu,
Isabella Lovestory,
Soul Glo,
Sudan Archives,
Tomberlin, and
Voxtrot. In June 2025, Hunter announced their new album
Death of the Heart, which released on August 15 via Bad Time Records. The announcement came with the single "The Way You Tune It Out."
Other work Hunter played brass on the
soundtrack for
Steven Universe: The Movie (2019), having been recruited by series composer
Aivi Tran via
Twitter, and later performed at the show's
New York Comic Con panel alongside
Estelle and
Sarah Stiles. They also contributed music to
Craig of the Creek Hunter is prominently active on
social media. They have credited
Tumblr as the source of Skatune Network's first 20,000 subscribers, as
Steven Universe storyboard artist (and later
Craig of the Creek co-creator) Ben Levin had reblogged their cover of "Giant Woman". as well as discussing the history of ska, misconceptions about the genre, and issues within the scene. and over 400k followers on TikTok. == Artistry ==