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BPM’s Top 25 EPs of 2020

Rob Hakimian, Chase McMullen, Andy Johnston, Tim Sentz, Conor Lochrie, JT Early, Josh Sand, Ethan Reis, Emma Bauchner, Kyle Kohner, Ray Finlayson, Jasper WIllems and Evan KaloudisDecember 7, 2020

Call them EPs, call them mini-albums, there's no denying that this short-form medium is still a crucial building block for an artist's development – and yet th...

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Album Review: Goodie Mob – Survival Kit

Kyle KohnerNovember 23, 2020

"Before you can rebuild, you've got to destroy / And these walls gonna come tumbling down / These walls gonna come tumbling down." Over 20 years ago, on the so...

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Hindsight 2020: The best albums we didn’t review

Emma Bauchner, Ray Finlayson, Rob Hakimian, Brody Kenny, Kyle Kohner, Ana Leorne, Chase McMullen, Gareth O'Malley, Grady Penna, Josh Sand, Tim Sentz, Harrison Suits Baer, Carlo Thomas, John Wohlmacher and Scott ZanassiNovember 9, 2020

Well, here we are, with this nightmare of a year nearing a close. Before we dive into our proper year-end coverage, we wanted to take a moment to show some lov...

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Album Review: Jean Dawson – Pixel Bath

Kyle KohnerOctober 28, 2020

We've seen hip-hop artists aplenty dip their toes into the waters of emo, punk rock, and even bedroom pop, and then vice-versa. This cross-genre exploration ha...

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Second Look: Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory

Kyle KohnerOctober 24, 2020

A few years before the dawn of a new century, the legendary Linkin Park made music under a couple of different names and with a different lead vocalist. But, i...

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Lauren Auder is magnificently loud and clear on new single “Quiet”

Kyle KohnerOctober 9, 2020

Exhaling with an ethereal breath that'll remind many of Scott Walker, Auder similarly accentuates every genre-bending layer of this track by imbuing it with heady lyrics that'll make almost anyone sit and listen with unflinching attention....

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Remain in Light at 40: A Celebration of Talking Heads’ landmark album

Rob Hakimian, Carlo Thomas, Kyle Kohner, Ray Finlayson, Chase McMullen, Harrison Suits Baer, John Wohlmacher and Michael CyrsOctober 8, 2020

Today marks 40 years since October 8, 1980, the release date of Talking Heads' era-defining fourth album Remain in Light. It's hard to believe that an album th...

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Album Review: Pet Shimmers – Trash Earthers

Kyle KohnerOctober 6, 2020

It's the advent of the apocalypse, and Bristol collective Pet Shimmers keep on truckin’. With their slept-on debut album Face Down in Meta released at the begi...

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Album Review: IDLES – Ultra Mono

Kyle KohnerSeptember 25, 2020

As children, we are innocently subjected to the sheer power of nursery rhymes. Yes, there is power in the very simplistic and innocent nature of "Twinkle, Twin...

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Lars and the Magic Mountain are galvanized by cosmic love on new single “Invincible” (BPM Premiere)

Kyle KohnerSeptember 17, 2020

With billowing strings and increasingly soaring backing vocals painting beautiful images of orange-kissed skies for the listener, Kroon's modest rumble cuts through the track's hypnotic grandeur and keeps us grounded and directed to the tangible romance of his words....

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