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BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2020 Grady Penna·December 9, 2020Well. Well, this was a year. When we got back together, a mixture of old school BPMers and...Best Of 2020FeaturesLists
BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2020 Grady Penna·December 8, 2020Despite everything else that’s happened in 2020, there sure has been a lot of good music. It just...Best Of 2020Features
Hindsight 2020: The best albums we didn’t review Grady Penna·November 9, 2020Well, here we are, with this nightmare of a year nearing a close. Before we dive into our...FeaturesLists
Album Review: Helena Deland – Someone New Grady Penna·October 16, 2020After her 2016 inaugural EP, Drawing Room, Canadian musician Helena Deland decided on an unorthodox approach to releasing...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension Grady Penna·September 25, 2020In the five years between Sufjan Stevens’ heart-wrenching masterpiece Carrie & Lowell and now, we haven’t heard a...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Lomelda – Hannah Grady Penna·September 4, 2020In the daily swirl of misinformation, social media anonymity, and public officials outright lying on a national scale,...Album ReviewsRecommendedReviews
Album Review: Kate Bollinger – A word becomes a sound EP Grady Penna·August 27, 2020With only a handful of tracks to her name, singer-songwriter Kate Bollinger has already carved out a nice...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Cut Copy – Freeze, Melt Grady Penna·August 21, 2020It’s no surprise that, after nearly 20 years, Australian synth-pop act Cut Copy would want to shake things...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Madeline Kenney – Sucker’s Lunch Grady Penna·August 3, 2020The cover art for Sucker’s Lunch, the third album from Oakland singer-songwriter and producer Madeline Kenney, shows the...Album ReviewsReviews
Overlooked 2020: Underappreciated albums from January to June Grady Penna·June 29, 2020Every year there are more and more releases vying for your attention – and that’s not just in...FeaturesLists
