BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2023 Rob Hakimian, Ray Finlayson, Chase McMullen, Kyle Kohner, Carlo Thomas, John Wohlmacher, Ethan Reis, Jeremy J. Fisette, John Amen, Jasper WIllems, Joshua Pickard, Steve Forstneger, Grady Penna and Andy Johnston·December 29, 2023Songs are soundtracks. No matter what you’re doing, when you have a song in your ears then it...Best of 2023FeaturesLists
BPM Team’s Personal 2023 Round-ups Rob Hakimian, Jasper WIllems, John Wohlmacher, Kyle Kohner, Larry McClain, Ray Finlayson, John Amen, Steve Forstneger and Joshua Pickard·December 20, 2023Having finished our annual festive round-up of the best music of the year with our Top 50 Albums...Best of 2023Features
Album Review: Tkay Maidza – Sweet Justice Steve Forstneger·November 3, 2023You can’t unsee Tkay Maidza. A walking, singing, rhyming art installation, the self-professed FKA twigs fanatic also seems...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Jamila Woods – Water Made Us Steve Forstneger·October 16, 2023In one of the more-recently posted interviews on YouTube that feature her, Jamila Woods sits in front of...Album ReviewsRecommendedReviews
Album Review: Nation of Language – Strange Disciple Steve Forstneger·September 18, 2023“I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sound exactly the same,” AC/DC guitarist...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Mick Jenkins – The Patience Steve Forstneger·August 29, 2023How Covid impacts the human genome might not be known for centuries, though its impact on the topic...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Genesis Owusu – Struggler Steve Forstneger·August 18, 2023In Genesis Owusu’s world, God looks kindlier on the roach than the black dog. The six-legged insect is...Album ReviewsReviews
Run It Back: BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2013 Rob Hakimian, Aleksandr Smirnov, Andy Johnston, Joshua Pickard, John Wohlmacher, Steve Forstneger, John Amen, Ethan Reis, Carlo Thomas, Chase McMullen, Ray Finlayson and Tom Williams·July 17, 2023Ah, 2013… to say it was a “simpler time” is, well, oversimplifying things. But in the music world...FeaturesLists
Album Review: Alaska Reid – Disenchanter Steve Forstneger·July 17, 2023To hear some tell it, the lockdown-era migration of Californians to mountain states like Montana and Idaho compared...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Kedr Livanskiy – K-Notes Steve Forstneger·June 27, 2023In Amor Towles’ 2016 novel, A Gentleman In Moscow, the newly-in-place Soviets hand a life sentence of house...Album ReviewsReviews
