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Stabscotch unleash technicolor terror on “Tunnel of Clowns”

Harrison Suits BaerApril 20, 2021

The mysterious Pittsburgh outfit Stabscotch exploded my brain in 2017 with Uncanny Valley, a monstrous 100-minute torrent of desecrated, nihilistic art-punk pr...

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Album Review: Spirit of the Beehive – ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH

Harrison Suits BaerApril 12, 2021

The portrayal of hell in Dante’s Inferno is probably the most enduring depiction of that concept – a prison pit divided into concentric rings to which sinners ...

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Album Review: Um Are – Big Wins

Harrison Suits BaerJanuary 29, 2021

The forces of nominative determinism are at it again. Where once these fates guided a man called Thomas Crapper toward a career in sanitary engineering, and pu...

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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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Them Airs hit the ground running on “Everett David”, from their upcoming EP

Harrison Suits BaerNovember 9, 2020

New Haven's unsigned post-punk wunderkinds Them Airs caught like wildfire amongst the BPM staff this year with the stunning Union Suit XL, which they released ...

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Remain in Light at 40: A Celebration of Talking Heads’ landmark album

Rob Hakimian, Carlo Thomas, Kyle Kohner, Ray Finlayson, Chase McMullen, Harrison Suits Baer, John Wohlmacher and Michael CyrsOctober 8, 2020

Today marks 40 years since October 8, 1980, the release date of Talking Heads' era-defining fourth album Remain in Light. It's hard to believe that an album th...

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Second Look: This Heat – This Heat

Harrison Suits BaerAugust 29, 2020

What exactly is progressive about progressive rock? If by “progressive rock” you mean the grandiose classical canon worship of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, not m...

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Album Review: Land of Talk – Indistinct Conversations

Harrison Suits BaerAugust 6, 2020

Over a decade-and-a-half long career, Lizzie Powell’s cool, crystalline croon has anchored Land of Talk’s sound even as they’ve run the gamut from jagged post-...

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Album Review: Tyler, the Creator – Wolf

Harrison Suits BaerApril 8, 2013

If we've learned anything about Tyler, the Creator, it's that we ought to take everything he says with a grain mountain of salt. Whether he's spitting graphic d...

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