John Amen is the author of several collections of poetry, including Illusion of an Overwhelm, a finalist for the 2018 Brockman-Campbell Award. He founded and is managing editor of Pedestal Magazine. As a result of the COVID quarantine, he’s been wearing headphones so much that they are now part of his body.

John Amen

BPM Curates: January 2024

Rob Hakimian, Ray Finlayson, Kyle Kohner, Larry McClain, Steve Forstneger, Chase McMullen, Jeremy J. Fisette, Jasper WIllems, Tom Williams, Joshua Pickard, John Amen, John Wohlmacher and Andy Johnston·February 1, 2024

Our new monthly playlist of our team's favorite new songs

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Album Review: Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke & Oren Ambarchi – With pats on the head, just one too few is evil…

John Amen·January 19, 2024

An abstract artist and friend of mine used to get annoyed when viewers would say that they could...

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Album Review: Pile – Hot Air Balloon EP

John Amen·January 10, 2024

Even in their Dripping days, when Pile aspired to a punk aesthetic and occasionally lurched toward hardcore elan,...

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Album Review: Sprints – Letter To Self

John Amen·January 8, 2024

With the 1960s, the subjective take, including so-called negative states, became popular music’s raison d’etre. By the 1990s,...

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BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2023

Rob Hakimian, Chase McMullen, Joshua Pickard, John Wohlmacher, Ray Finlayson, John Amen, Kyle Kohner, JT Early, Carlo Thomas, Ethan Reis, Jeremy J. Fisette, Steve Forstneger, Tom Williams, Andy Johnston, Kristy Sawyer, Dana Poland and Josh LaClair·December 29, 2023

If you are reading this: CONGRATULATIONS, you have survived war criminal Henry Kissinger and made it to the...

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BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2023

Rob Hakimian, Ray Finlayson, Chase McMullen, Kyle Kohner, Carlo Thomas, John Wohlmacher, Ethan Reis, Jeremy J. Fisette, John Amen, Jasper WIllems, Joshua Pickard, Steve Forstneger, Grady Penna and Andy Johnston·December 29, 2023

Songs are soundtracks. No matter what you’re doing, when you have a song in your ears then it...

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BPM’s Honorable Mentions 2023

Joshua Pickard, Chase McMullen, Rob Hakimian, Ray Finlayson, John Amen, Kyle Kohner and John Wohlmacher·December 29, 2023

The records we think you should give a second chance to change your life; albums that may have slipped by on your journey through the year

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BPM Team’s Personal 2023 Round-ups

Rob Hakimian, Jasper WIllems, John Wohlmacher, Kyle Kohner, Larry McClain, Ray Finlayson, John Amen, Steve Forstneger and Joshua Pickard·December 20, 2023

Having finished our annual festive round-up of the best music of the year with our Top 50 Albums...

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Album Review: Creeper – Sanguivore

John Amen·October 18, 2023

Campy romanticism ain’t trending in 2023. Life’s too packed with pressing trivialities, polarizations, conflicts, impending crises. Is the...

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Torres lets her rage loose on “Collect”, announces new album

John Amen·October 4, 2023

Mackenzie Scott aka Torres has announced her new album What an enormous room, which will be out on...

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