Big Ears Festival announces initial 2025 lineup
Knoxville’s expansive and experimental Big Ears Festival will return to the Marble City in March of next year,...
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BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2023
If you are reading this: CONGRATULATIONS, you have survived war criminal Henry Kissinger and made it to the...
BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2023
Songs are soundtracks. No matter what you’re doing, when you have a song in your ears then it...
Say Sue Me stave off the gloom with “Mind Is Light”
South Korean indie favourites Say Sue Me are heading out on a North American tour this month and...
Album Review: Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World
For some of us, time is measured in babies born, jobs worked, hobbies indulged in, and in our...
Yo La Tengo explore the clanging sprawl of their shared musical histories on “Sinatra Drive Breakdown”
We’ve only got a few more days until Yo La Tengo release their latest album, This Stupid World,...
BPM’s Most Anticipated Releases of 2023
Here we are in another January facing down another year full of surprises. While some of those surprises...
Yo La Tengo fight entropy on the fuzzed-up “Fallout”, announce new album
New Jersey legends Yo La Tengo will release their 16th album This Stupid World on February 10 through...
25 Years of Influence: Beats Per Minute looks back at 1997
In our Turning 25 feature last week, we heard from dozens of bands about some of the records...
Turning 25: Musicians discuss some of their favorite records from 1997
Some years just seem to have a halo around them: 1969, 1971, 1991, 2001 – they have all...
