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 89: Uwade - Song-Gathering

2 days ago | beatsperminute.com | Jeremy Fisette

In this episode, we get to meet Uwade. Uwade is a Cailfornia-by-way-of-North Carolina singer-songwriter who has just released her debut album, Florilegium. You may have – like I did – first encountered her, though, as the first voice on the opening track of the last Fleet Foxes record Shore, called “Wading in the Waist-High Water”.
I’m With Her are acoustic aces on “Find My Way To You”

2 days ago | beatsperminute.com | Larry McClain

The folk supergroup I’m With Her consists of three multi-Grammy winners with deep roots in the folk scene: Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan and Sara Watkins. One of the highlights of their new album Wild And Clear And Blue is “Find My Way To You”, where the group’s acoustic virtuosity is a refreshing vacation from the glitchy Charli XCX-type songs that dominate today’s charts.
Merrick Winter shares tales from “The California Zephyr”

2 days ago | beatsperminute.com | Larry McClain

It’s been a long, strange trip for singer-songwriter Merrick Winter, who was raised by Anglo-American parents in Fairfield, Iowa, home to the Maharishi University. In addition to learning meditation, he soaked up plenty of Jackson Browne/Randy Newman influences before moving to the UK at age 12.
Track-by-Track: Ringdown walks us through the liminal spaces on their new album, Lady on the Bike

6 days ago | beatsperminute.com | Joshua Pickard

Ringdown was always going to do things a little bit differently. Danni Lee Parpan and Pulitzer and Grammy winner Caroline Shaw weren’t interested in stillness as an artform – nor were they concerned with passing trends or fading aesthetics. By exploring the endless concept of possibility, they tapped into a creativity that spread like wildfire through their collective subconscious.
Fiona Grey watches a life implode on “Another Casualty”

6 days ago | beatsperminute.com | Larry McClain

Most pop songs don’t employ sumptuous strings, but there are two this month that are superb: the Barbra Streisand/Hozier duet of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and the new single from LA artist Fiona Grey entitled “Another Casualty”. In addition to being one of today’s most accomplished singers, Grey’s songwriting is likewise stellar. This song features one of the best lines of the year: “I’m codependent if I stay, a co-defendant if I go.” Yet it’s not a conventional love song.
Georgie & Joe are synth wizards on “Pacemaker”

6 days ago | beatsperminute.com | Larry McClain

Georgie & Joe are an East London duo that’s been hailed in the UK press as “deliciously fun” and “unpredictable” – and their new single “Pacemaker” is all that and more. I predict that they’ll soon be a post-modern power couple dominating the charts worldwide. Georgie Hoare and Joe Bedell-Brill are both fabulous vocalists and producers with a knack for turning the Yamaha DX7 into an engine of whimsy and pop enchantment.
Laura Musgrave brings retro magic to “Habit of a Lifetime”

6 days ago | beatsperminute.com | Larry McClain

Even though she won top honors at the 2023 International Singer-Songwriter Association (ISSA) awards, Laura Musgrave is a rocker at heart. The East Midlands-based artist has a new single called “Habit Of A Lifetime” that will transport you instantly to the heyday of Paramore, with just a hint of contemporary greats like Pale Waves. Produced by Becky Willard, the new single has been featured on BBC Music Introducing.
Album Review: billy woods - GOLLIWOG

6 days ago | beatsperminute.com | John Amen

[Backwoodz Studioz; 2025]On “Make No Mistake,” from his new album, GOLLIWOG, billy woods tells us: “I told a few lies in my time / but never once over a beat”. This is undoubtedly true in the artistic sense (as Picasso supposedly said, “Art is the lie that reveals the truth”. As Jeezy succinctly added, “I spit the truth, every noun, every verb”). woods’ raps, however/of course, make use of autofiction as much as autobiography.
Ben Bostick discovers altered sonic states on “Flying High” [BPM Premiere]

1 week ago | beatsperminute.com | Joshua Pickard

Georgia singer-songwriter Ben Bostick doesn’t acknowledge any appreciable disconnect between genres – they’re all intertwined, lines of melody and rhythm intersecting and influencing one another. Admittedly, his previous albums were primarily focused on Americana’s rural movements, but you could hear the effects of other musical histories imprinting themselves into the structural architecture of his work.
Album Review: Michael Vallera - The Other World

1 week ago | beatsperminute.com | Ray Finlayson

[Torn Light Records; 2025]Stratocaster in hand, Michael Vallera sought to create a blanketed, grey world. Back in 2023 he plugged his guitar into a minimal effects chain (which subsequently “fed into a small solid state amplifier”) and conjured his world. The Chicago guitarist and sound artist created music that reminded him of charcoal drawings, monochromatic pieces that thrum and drone like apocalyptic landscapes void of life.