Beats Per Minute

Album Review: Klaxons – Landmarks of Lunacy EP

Alex Phillimore·January 19, 2011

Klaxons boast on their website that Landmarks of Lunacy is the release where they ‘let the music do...

Rob Hakimian·January 18, 2011

Fans of 2009’s self-titled debut album from Smith Westerns might want to forget most of what they know...

Gideon Jacobs·January 18, 2011

If there’s one thing we’ve always known about Tapes ‘n Tapes is that they are fans—Pavement-worshipping, Pixie-idolizing fans....

Sean Highkin·January 17, 2011

The Decemberists’ 2006 major-label debut, The Crane Wife, was notable for bringing to the fore the Portland outfit’s...

Brent Koepp·January 17, 2011

Coming off his masterpiece My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West’s collaboration with Jay-Z should have been a...

Sean Highkin·January 14, 2011

At first blush, it seems as though British Sea Power’s fourth studio album, Valhalla Dancehall, is going for...

Brent Koepp·January 14, 2011

Being Cake’s first album in over seven years, Showroom of Compassion has left fans anticipating what their eventual...

Michael Dix·January 13, 2011

When Fujiya & Miyagi first started attracting critical attention with the release of their second album, 2006’s Transparent...

Brent Koepp·January 11, 2011

I have to imagine while sitting around in a studio with a handful of writers, Spears and her...

Ray Finlayson·January 11, 2011

2010 was a relatively quiet year for Andrew Bird – or at least for anyone who wasn’t him....