Beats Per Minute

Live Review: FACS at Neue Zukunft, Berlin – 10 February 2025

John Wohlmacher·February 12, 2025

Over the decades, I’ve come to understand that there’s really good, exciting live bands and that there’s those...

Steve Forstneger·February 10, 2025

Inspired by a restaurant menu item, Jess Smyth’s Biig Piig tag became a retroactive nickname for the artist...

Chase McMullen·February 7, 2025

Ya know, it’s not entirely offbase to compare Will Oldham to Nas. Alright, I See a Darkness may...

John Amen·February 6, 2025

With Glutton for Punishment, Heartworms release her full-length debut and follow-up to 2023’s EP, A Comforting Notion. If...

Ray Finlayson·February 4, 2025

Pondering life’s journey and the choices we make along the way, Norwegian composer Runar Blesvik went to a...

Jasper WIllems·January 31, 2025

We seem to be in this weird schism when it comes to music formats. Some declaim the album...

Ray Finlayson·January 30, 2025

It always bears repeating: for queer people, community is everything. Manchester-based artist Jasmine Cruickshank (aka jasmine.4.t) can attest...

Steve Forstneger·January 29, 2025

Waiting Room sounds every bit like a barebones album that was recorded in an abandoned warehouse on a...

Rob Abraham·January 28, 2025

The early weeks of 2025, at the official beginning of the middle of this decade – Scotland’s Mogwai...

Steve Forstneger·January 27, 2025

When amateur scientists want to refute intelligent design, they point to the poor flounder. A bottom-dwelling flatfish that...