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.

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Album Review: Moor Mother – The Great Bailout

John Amen·March 7, 2024

Moor Mother’s new album The Great Bailout is Camea Ayewa’s most confrontive project, as she mostly backburners literary...

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BPM Curates: February 2024

Rob Hakimian, Ray Finlayson, Kyle Kohner, Larry McClain, Steve Forstneger, Chase McMullen, Brianna Corrine, Jeremy J. Fisette, Jasper WIllems, John Amen, Andy Johnston, JT Early, John Wohlmacher, Ethan Reis and Tom Williams·March 1, 2024

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Album Review: Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive

John Amen·February 23, 2024

Born of Puerto Rican heritage and raised in the Bronx, Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff...

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Album Review: Kali Malone – All Life Long

John Amen·February 14, 2024

If pop points to the moment at hand, drone alludes to the epoch. Pop shouts carpe diem; drone...

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Album Review: Helado Negro – Phasor

John Amen·February 9, 2024

The cover of 2021’s Far In from Roberto Carlos Lange, aka Helado Negro, shows a young and wide-eyed...

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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

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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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