Beats Per Minute

Beats Per Minute, previously known as One Thirty BPM, is an online magazine located in New York City and Los Angeles. It offers a range of content, including reviews, news, interviews, and features, focusing on both independent and mainstream music. The publication covers many music genres but has a special emphasis on rock, hip hop, and electronic music. In January 2012, the name was officially changed from One Thirty BPM to Beats Per Minute.

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Podcast: Meet Our Makers Episode 87: Valerie June - We Are Oracles

1 day ago | beatsperminute.com | Jeremy Fisette

In this episode, we get to meet singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer Valerie June. Here, Valerie and I go deep into her brand new record, Owls, Omens, and Oracles, including the themes, production, and writing of these genre-defying songs. We touch on music history, including Appalachian and Delta folk music, as well as the concept of being positive or optimistic in times like these.
Darcy Nelson calls to the goddess Gaia on “River Wash Me”

2 days ago | beatsperminute.com | Larry McClain

Darcy Nelson is a Colorado artist with a voice that sounds like morning sunshine. Her new single “River Wash Me” is one of this year’s best – and its release coincides with Earth Day. The song’s lush, cascading harmonies wash over you like a healing river. It’s a love song to Mother Nature – one that deserves to ring out worldwide this spring.
Samantha Margret faces a disturbing dilemma on “hot enough”

3 days ago | beatsperminute.com | Larry McClain

LA artist Samantha Margret’s new single “hot enough” burns with a white-hot intensity that’s reminiscent of Canadian poet Rupi Kaur and early Patti Smith. It’s actually a primal poem augmented with some minimalist production like finger snaps, drum beats and bass. The result is chilling yet astonishing – a heart-cry for women who are tired of constantly calibrating their “hotness”. “hot enough” conveys the lived experience of a woman trapped in a no-win situation.
Album Review: Julien Baker & Torres - Send A Prayer My Way

6 days ago | beatsperminute.com | Ray Finlayson

[Matador; 2025]Enacting a promise made to each other, Send A Prayer My Way is an album that follows through with a pact to make the music both Julien Baker and TORRES (aka Mackenzie Scott) grew up with, but could never quite see themselves in.
Tan Cologne announce new album, offer the droning dream-pop of “Cloud of Mirrors”

1 week ago | beatsperminute.com | Joshua Pickard

Tan Cologne — the New Mexico-based duo of Lauren Green and Marissa Macias — will release their new album, Unknown Beyond, on June 20 via Labrador Records. Written, performed, and recorded alone at their home in Taos, Northern New Mexico, the band fell into these songs as they grappled with familial loss and grief over the change of childhood geographies. Veering away from the organic psychedelia of their earlier efforts, this album revels in atmospheres of droning dream-pop and ambient shoegaze.
Podcast: Meet Our Makers Episode 86: Daughter of Swords - Clicking the Kaleidoscope

1 week ago | beatsperminute.com | Jeremy Fisette

In this episode, we get to meet Daughter of Swords, aka Alex Sauser-Monnig. Alex just released a brand new solo album under their Daughter of Swords moniker, appropriately titled Alex, and in this chat, we discuss the record at length, including its varied themes (of both personal and societal contexts), the creation of the record, and also the huge aesthetic shift from their first Daughter of Swords record, Dawnbreaker.
Nerves grapple with internal collapse and resolution on “Dirty Fingers”

1 week ago | beatsperminute.com | Joshua Pickard

The latest single from Welsh noise-punks Nerves sounds like an industrial exorcism, one designed to excoriate and explore the bitter consequences of questionable decisions. “Dirty Fingers” finds the band working with producer (and bassist of Gilla Band) Daniel Fox, once again teaming up after their time together creating the band’s 2024 EP Glórach. The track, a blistering bit of emotional wreckage, is framed by scorched vocals and apocalyptic rhythms.
Folk Bitch Trio sign to Jagjaguwar, release acidic and gorgeous new single “The Actor”

1 week ago | beatsperminute.com | Joshua Pickard

Melbourne/Naarm-based outfit Folk Bitch Trio have just signed to Jagjaguwar and released a new single called “The Actor”. Centered around Gracie Sinclair, Jeanie Pilkington, and Heide Peverelle, the band offers blurred-genre ruminations on “loss, fear, sex, rage, elation but most importantly love and laughs”, according to Peverelle.
Track-By-Track: lilo take us through their visceral and open debut album Blood Ties

1 week ago | beatsperminute.com | Rob Hakimian

lilo are the British duo Christie Gardner and Helen Dixon who have just released their debut album Blood Ties. To say it’s a culmination is something of an understatement – yes, it builds and expands on their promising early releases, but moreover it stands as a monument to the bond between the two women, which has been growing since their childhood. And it is that connection that is the strength at the heart of Blood Ties.
Album Review: New Orthodox - Bull Market on Corn

1 week ago | beatsperminute.com | Ray Finlayson

[Joyful Noise; 2025]How strange and funny it is to be reminded of something by the simplest thing. We see a shade of something familiar, hear an evocative note, have our smell memory activated, and suddenly we’re transported. Consider Scottie from the 1958 film Vertigo, who goes down an obsessive path because an echo of a woman he loved was brought to mind by a passing stranger on the street. Or – from another angle – how jazz musicians will teasingly quote each other during their solos.