Cassette Culture: April 2023
Cassette Culture is a monthly column dedicated to exploring the various artists that inhabit the expansive cassette market. Drawing...
Joshua Pickard
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...
Paul Jacks crafts an affectionate ode to Motown on groovy pop marvel “My Love Has to Ask” [BPM Premiere]
Change has always been a big part of Alaskan musician Paul Jacks’ work, the act of transitioning from...
