Features
BPM Curates: May 2025
Our monthly playlist of the team's essential new songs
Preview: London’s new 5-night festival, LIDO
Next month sees the inaugural LIDO Festival take place in London’s Victoria Park, and Beats Per Minute will...
In Rotation: Nerves shine a light on some of their favorite Irish musicians
West-Irish noisemakers Nerves are forging a path of extended amplitudes and nervous energy, of caustic rhythms and the...
“I’m a laugh a minute!”: An exchange with Michael Gira
Long before these questions had been formulated, Michael Gira already took control of the conversation! Ten questions –...
Track-by-Track: Ringdown walks us through the liminal spaces on their new album, Lady on the Bike
Ringdown was always going to do things a little bit differently. Danni Lee Parpan and Pulitzer and Grammy...
In Rotation: Desire curates a soundtrack for “night drives and distant dreams”
Desire has long been the avenue through which Megan Louise and Johnny Jewel explore fluorescent landscapes spiked with...
BPM Curates: April 2025
Our monthly playlist of the team's essential new songs
Track-By-Track: Avery Friedman guides us through the foundations of her debut album, New Thing
Brooklyn musician Avery Friedman has always been fascinated by transitional spaces, the environments where movement is more important...
Track-By-Track: lilo take us through their visceral and open debut album Blood Ties
lilo are the British duo Christie Gardner and Helen Dixon who have just released their debut album Blood...
