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Album Review: Lambchop – Showtunes

Grady PennaMay 25, 2021

If you are familiar with Lambchop’s music, the concept of show tunes probably doesn’t come to mind. But given Kurt Wagner’s poetic, descriptive lyrics, it’s no...

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Album Review: Sophia Kennedy – Monsters

Grady PennaMay 11, 2021

Sophia Kennedy’s self-titled debut album arrived like a bolt of lightning in 2017 – a cutting flash of musical curiosity that seemed to explode out of nowhere....

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G.Brenner imagines an idyllic future suffocated by the present on “Brushfire”, announces debut album

Grady PennaApril 23, 2021

LA-based musician and visual artist G. Brenner, fka pastel, has announced his debut album Brushfire and shared the self-titled lead single. According to a pres...

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Album Review: Neon Bunny – KOSMOS

Grady PennaMarch 9, 2021

Since winning Best Pop Album at the 2012 Korean Music Awards for her debut album, Seoulight, Neon Bunny has been gradually refining her brand of alternative K-...

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BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2020

Rob Hakimian, Michael Cyrs, Brody Kenny, Kyle Kohner, Andy Johnston, JT Early, Chase McMullen, Todd Dedman, Conor Lochrie, Lauren Mullineaux, Tim Sentz, Scott Zanassi, Ray Finlayson, Josh Sand, Carlo Thomas, Ethan Reis, John Wohlmacher, Jeremy J. Fisette, Aleksandr Smirnov, Grady Penna, Emma Bauchner and Gareth O'MalleyDecember 9, 2020

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 ...

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BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2020

Rob Hakimian, Tim Sentz, Ana Leorne, Ray Finlayson, Chase McMullen, Kyle Kohner, Aleksandr Smirnov, JT Early, Brody Kenny, Carlo Thomas, Grady Penna, Harrison Suits Baer, John Wohlmacher, Conor Lochrie, Gareth O'Malley, Ethan Reis, Jeremy J. Fisette, Andy Johnston and Matthew BartonDecember 8, 2020

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 ...

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Hindsight 2020: The best albums we didn’t review

Emma Bauchner, Ray Finlayson, Rob Hakimian, Brody Kenny, Kyle Kohner, Ana Leorne, Chase McMullen, Gareth O'Malley, Grady Penna, Josh Sand, Tim Sentz, Harrison Suits Baer, Carlo Thomas, John Wohlmacher and Scott ZanassiNovember 9, 2020

Well, here we are, with this nightmare of a year nearing a close. Before we dive into our proper year-end coverage, we wanted to take a moment to show some lov...

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Album Review: Helena Deland – Someone New

Grady PennaOctober 16, 2020

After her 2016 inaugural EP, Drawing Room, Canadian musician Helena Deland decided on an unorthodox approach to releasing her music. She chose to break up her ...

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Album Review: Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension

Grady PennaSeptember 25, 2020

In the five years between Sufjan Stevens’ heart-wrenching masterpiece Carrie & Lowell and now, we haven’t heard a lot from him. Sure, he’s kept busy – rele...

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Album Review: Lomelda – Hannah

Grady PennaSeptember 4, 2020

In the daily swirl of misinformation, social media anonymity, and public officials outright lying on a national scale, honesty is starting to feel like a rare ...

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