Helen Kelter Skelter explore dense psych-rock calamity on “Sceptre” [BPM Premiere]
Oklahoma’s psych mantle bearers Helen Kelter Skelter have always kept their heads down and let their music speak...
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Cassette Culture: April 2023
Cassette Culture is a monthly column dedicated to exploring the various artists that inhabit the expansive cassette market. Drawing...
Bees in a Bottle discover emotional release through freeform dance in the video for “Wet Widow” [BPM Premiere]
There is a long and misleading mythology that perpetuates the “rock star lifestyle” trope. Drugs, sex, and distorted...
Whoop deal with heartache and resentment on funk rock anthem “Cherry Cola” [BPM Premiere]
With a tenure of just a few years, North Carolina’s Whoop has already evolved from a band running...
Festival Review: Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival stays weird and wonderful and wholly necessary
Big Ears still feels like a secret, a hidden treasure nestled in The Marble City. Gathering together artists...
Toy City transforms Oscar Hammerstein into early 90s indie rock on cover of “Do Re Mi” [BPM Premiere]
When the pandemic first hit back in 2020, there was a noted collapse of artistic scenes across the...
Raia Was examines life’s quieter moments on gauzy alt-pop wonder “What It Feels Like” [BPM Premiere]
It’s been a few years since songwriter-producer Raia Was released her debut album, Angel I’m Frightened, back in...
girlhouse radiates raw emotion in the video for cathartic alt-pop cataclysm “worth it”
The music of girlhouse — aka Portland-by-way-of-Nashville bedroom pop architect Lauren Luiz — is bathed in an alt-pop...
gloryBots reckon with fate’s cruelty on caustic alt-rock anthem “Come at Me” [BPM Premiere]
Led by post-punk and sci-fi alt-rock alchemist Jalal Andre, gloryBots exists at a crossroads of darkened rhythmic impulses...
Cassette Culture: February 2023
Cassette Culture is a monthly column dedicated to exploring the various artists that inhabit the expansive cassette market. Drawing...
