Festival Review: Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival offers a trip through a parallel reality
Big Ears Festival is a bubble – a cloistered series of moments dedicated to creation and exploration. It’s wondrous...
Joshua Pickard
Eric Schroeder finds revelation in the darkness on “Stayed the Same” [BPM Premiere]
Music is a study in contrasts: antagonistic tones resting perpendicular to one another, melodies serving the desires of...
BPM Curates: January 2024
Our new monthly playlist of our team's favorite new songs
Cassette Culture: January 2024
Cassette Culture is a monthly column dedicated to exploring the various artists that inhabit the expansive cassette market. Drawing...
BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2023
If you are reading this: CONGRATULATIONS, you have survived war criminal Henry Kissinger and made it to the...
BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2023
Songs are soundtracks. No matter what you’re doing, when you have a song in your ears then it...
BPM’s Honorable Mentions 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
BPM Team’s Personal 2023 Round-ups
Having finished our annual festive round-up of the best music of the year with our Top 50 Albums...
They Travel at Night embrace their industrial synth-pop impulses on “Go On” [BPM Premiere]
One person likes Radiohead – another enjoys Dead Kennedys. Oneohtrix Point Never piques the interest of someone while...
David Hobbes reflects on broken love and life’s unending momentum on “Fields of Blue” [BPM Premiere]
The consequences of last-minute decisions and streaming algorithms – these are some of the things that have shaped...
