Beats Per Minute

Album Review: Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance

Tim Sentz·June 3, 2022

You’d be hard pressed to find a band more readily groomed for success than Chicago’s Horsegirl. Three years...

Ray Finlayson·June 2, 2022

Music is storytelling as much as it’s cathartic therapy for Ella Coyes. As Sister Ray, they hone a...

Ray Finlayson·June 1, 2022

For Hannah Judge to sound like she’s in her own world makes sense. Her breakthrough 2021 EP, Hurt Is...

Tim Sentz·May 31, 2022

To stand out in an overcrowded genre like shoegaze isn’t easy. There are hundreds of bands out there...

During their three decade long career, Wilco have experienced and achieved pretty much everything to qualify as Olympian...

Ray Finlayson·May 30, 2022

Fun and fury transcend language, which is all to the benefit of Japanese quartet Otoboke Beaver – but...

Tim Sentz·May 27, 2022

Chicago trio Dehd know a thing or two about adaptation. The surf-punk threesome has honed their brand of...

John Amen·May 26, 2022

With his debut, Wellswood, singer-songwriter and poet Thomas Dollbaum revels in wistful melodies and thorny atmospherics, his compelling...

There’s something to be said for stripping things back. Lykke Li knows this notion well. The Swedish singer-songwriter...

Josh LaClair·May 24, 2022

It is nearly impossible to discuss Craig Finn without first mentioning his voice, and then attaching some sort...