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Album Review: Kacey Musgraves – Middle of Nowhere

If Kacey Musgraves‘ first demo albums – released between 2002 and 2007 when she was still a teen...

John Wohlmacher·April 30, 2026

Located in the Quarantaine of Beirut is the club B 018. Located where some of the worst atrocities...

John Amen·April 30, 2026

With 2021’s Christfucker, Austin, Texas-based Portrayal of Guilt honed the eclecticism hinted at in earlier releases. While sustaining...

Mary Chiney·April 27, 2026

For the better part of a decade, Kehlani Ashley Parrish existed under intense and sustained scrutiny online. Since...

Ray Finlayson·April 24, 2026

Humour is the great masker, the great defender against reality – at least up until the point existence...

Jasper WIllems·April 23, 2026

BPM’s Jasper Willems revisits the experimental The Hague festival ’s 15th edition. Systems are meant to be broken....

What does being funny in music (rock or elsewhere) mean? Being sardonic, sarcastic, tongue in cheek, just cracking...

Mary Chiney·April 17, 2026

Fame fell away from Zayn Malik. However, this fall is not a crash, it’s a narrowing. The noise...

Chase McMullen·April 16, 2026

For all the sprawling, inspirational art borne of searching, yearning, and seeking – music of adventure – there’s...

Ray Finlayson·April 15, 2026

Known less as an awe-inspiring landmark in itself (or, according to some interpretations of Greek myth, as the...