A new year, a whole new batch of music to get excited about. Will the pandemic have a delayed effect on this year's releases? Only time will tell, but – as you...
It's been a year of many endings, but Beats Per Minute's is one of re-birth. For those many of you who probably don't know our history, BPM was run as a passio...
Fresh from being featured on our Best EPs of 2020 list, the Ohio emotive hardcore band Closedown have a new visual to accompany "To Shake with the Earth", the ...
Well.
Well, this was a year. When we got back together, a mixture of old school BPMers and some blessed new blood, we were excited for what was to come. We ...
Despite everything else that's happened in 2020, there sure has been a lot of good music. It just keeps coming, and we've all found the songs that have helped ...
Call them EPs, call them mini-albums, there's no denying that this short-form medium is still a crucial building block for an artist's development – and yet th...
Respire’s new album Black Line opens with the sound of 2020: a garbage fire crackling in the night. Our collective hopes and dreams rise like embers, glowing b...
Inter Arma make serious music, of that there is no doubt. Their albums are totems to existential despair, violent invocations of nature’s primal fury, and an a...
Every year there are more and more releases vying for your attention – and that's not just in music. What's more, the quality is pretty much great all across t...
It’s been 10 long years since Owen Pallett left behind the fantasy world of 14th-century Spectrum that served as the backdrop of their magnum opus, Heartland. ...
Least prolific music writer in the room. Shares a birthday with Stephen Malkmus and resents having his thunder stolen. Ride or die for Tori Amos. All opinions powered by chronic sleep deprivation.