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Easter Island bring dream-pop to White Sands in gorgeous video for “Always Room for Another” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardOctober 23, 2020

Athens dream-pop band Easter Island create music as elusive and mysterious as the geography from which they draw their name. Hushed and gorgeous melodies swirl...

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Nathan Oliver works through personal loss and heartache on “Even If You Go” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardOctober 20, 2020

Building from a one-man bedroom project, North Carolinian musician Nathan Oliver has developed a unique perspective on tangled rock stories. With three albums ...

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Everyone Is Dirty offer raggedly melodic prophecy with volatile rocker “Killing of the Firstborn Son” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardOctober 14, 2020

COVID-19 has changed everything -- from travel to love to the daily routines that occupy much of our time. It has hit musicians hard in different ways with tou...

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Pauline Andrès embraces devastation and the dancefloor on prickly synth creation “Til the End of the World” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardOctober 9, 2020

Pauline Andrès has experienced a handful of geographies in her lifetime, having moved from London to Berlin and then from Paris to New York before finally sett...

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Paul Jacks chronicles the downfall of civilization with the bright pop desolation of “Lunacy’s Back” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardOctober 7, 2020

Home to brown bears, caribou and the occasional musician, Alaska thrives on an identity of personal space and natural isolation. For native songwriter Paul Jac...

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The High Water Marks explore self-doubt through fuzzed-out power-pop on “Award Show” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardOctober 1, 2020

For those people who enjoy their pop music served with a generous helping of psychedelia, then the name Hilarie Sidney should be all too familiar – or possibly...

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Foliage roams dreamlike landscapes via gossamer synth explorations on “What I Deserve” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardSeptember 24, 2020

Flying under indie music’s radar for the past six years has allowed Manuel Joseph Walker the time to craft his own insular aesthetic free from pervasive influe...

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Pearl Charles announces new album, shares elegiac echo “What I Need”

Joshua PickardSeptember 15, 2020

Pearl Charles knew from an early age -- she's been performing since she was five years old -- that music would be an integral part of her life. She formed coun...

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Grand Nathaniel offers a masterclass in emotional consequence and pop-collage aspiration on “Nightbird” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardSeptember 9, 2020

The work of Lafayette, Louisiana musician J Burton lingers in the gray areas between genres, content to explore the places where sounds and intentions blur tog...

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Skittish attempt to find solace in the aftermath of love through the folk-pop honesty of “Intro (Vert)” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardAugust 27, 2020

Under the direction of Minnesota musician Jeff Noller, who is the sole constant member, Skittish have been offering up gorgeous and immersive bits of bedroom f...

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