Album Review: Alan Sparhawk – White Roses, My God
With the 2022 death of his beloved spouse and collaborator, Mimi Parker, Alan Sparhawk dissolved the seminal band...
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Low’s Alan Sparhawk announces solo album with the glitched-up nightmare “Can U Hear”
Alan Sparhawk of Low will release his debut solo album White Roses, My God on 27 September through...
We’ll be lucky if I don’t bust out crying: The Albini memorial playlist
Fuck all of this, I don’t want to have to write this – not today, not ever! To...
We Can All Be Free: Le Guess Who? 2023 Reviewed
Beats Per Minute stumble deliriously across Utrecht's foremost experimental festival for hidden and familiar musical wonders.
BPM Team’s Personal 2022 Round-ups
Every year we throw the doors open to the BPM team to give them space to write or...
18 songs that display Mimi Parker as the beating heart of Low
The music world was quietly rocked this weekend when news broke that Mimi Parker – drummer, vocalist and founding member of Low – had passed away.
In the Shadow of the Sunsphere: 15 Memorable Performances from Big Ears Festival 2022
After three years, and a noticeable but understandable silence from the curators behind Big Ears Festival in Knoxville,...
Preview: Big Ears Festival brings a welcome and chaotic free-for-all to Tennessee
Beginning in 2009, Big Ears Festival has been bringing a wide range of musical artists together within the...
BPM Team’s Personal 2021 Round-ups
A space for our writers to give their own individual round-ups of their year in music (or anything else).
BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2021
And so the sun sets on another year of music. This week the BPM staff have shared our...
