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Album Review: Sam Smith – Gloria

JT Early·February 1, 2023
Pop stars reinvent themselves constantly between albums – sometimes in such an extreme way that their discography seems...
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BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2022

Rob Hakimian, Chase McMullen, Tim Sentz, Joshua Pickard, John Wohlmacher, Ray Finlayson, John Amen, Kyle Kohner, JT Early, Carlo Thomas, Ethan Reis, Jeremy J. Fisette, Aleksandr Smirnov, Lucas Martins, Steve Forstneger, Eddie Smith and Tom Williams·December 15, 2022
You could easily write a dramatic pop-rock opera about the major global events that happened in 2022. From...
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BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2022

Rob Hakimian, Tim Sentz, Ray Finlayson, Chase McMullen, Kyle Kohner, Carlo Thomas, John Wohlmacher, Ethan Reis, Jeremy J. Fisette, John Amen, Jasper WIllems, Joshua Pickard, Eddie Smith, JT Early, Steve Forstneger, Lucas Martins and Todd Dedman·December 14, 2022
This year saw Beyoncé retain her Queen of Pop crown with a 16-track comeback, one of the pretenders...
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Turning 25: Musicians discuss some of their favorite records from 1997

Joshua Pickard·September 2, 2022
Some years just seem to have a halo around them: 1969, 1971, 1991, 2001 – they have all...
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Overlooked 2022: The Best Q1-Q2 Albums We Didn’t Review

Rob Hakimian, Chase McMullen, John Amen, Joshua Pickard, Ray Finlayson, Kyle Kohner, Jeremy J. Fisette, Tom Williams, JT Early, Eddie Smith, Tim Sentz, John Wohlmacher, Ethan Reis and Josh Sand·July 11, 2022
Sometimes albums just slip through the net - we wanted to give the best ones their moment in the spotlight.
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BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2020

Rob Hakimian, Tim Sentz, Ana Leorne, Ray Finlayson, Chase McMullen, Kyle Kohner, Aleksandr Smirnov, JT Early, Mimi Kenny, Carlo Thomas, Grady Penna, Harriet Suits Baer, John Wohlmacher, Conor Lochrie, Gareth O'Malley, Ethan Reis, Jeremy J. Fisette, Andy Johnston and Matthew Barton·December 8, 2020
Despite everything else that’s happened in 2020, there sure has been a lot of good music. It just...
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Track-by-Track: Hachiku gives us the low-down on her escapist debut album I’ll Probably Be Asleep

Staff·November 13, 2020
Today sees the release of I’ll Probably Be Asleep, the debut album from Melbourne-based German songwriter Anika Ostendorf...
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BPM 5: The Top 130 Albums

Staff·October 15, 2013
We run down our top 130 albums of the past five years (10/05/2008-2013)
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Rob Hakimian·July 23, 2013
All photos by Christopher Alvarez Arriving at the fest on time for the last day of this year’s...

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Stephen Henderson·July 8, 2013
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