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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Big Thief announce new album, share lead single “Incomprehensible”

4 days ago | beatsperminute.com | Joshua Pickard

Big Thief have announced the forthcoming release of their sixth studio album, entitled Double Infinity, due out September 5 on 4AD — it follows their Grammy-nominated 2022 album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. The new album was produced, engineered, and mixed by longtime collaborator Dom Monks.
Album Review: Swans - Birthing

5 days ago | beatsperminute.com | John Amen

[Young God/Mute; 2025]The term “Zen” is part of the cultural vernacular. Used as an adjective, a noun, even a verb, the mainstream usage typically refers to someone being laidback, going with the flow, or practicing acceptance. But at the heart of Zen, and Buddhism more broadly, are principles regarding the intricacies of suffering, impermanence, and, more elusively, non-self.
Two Dark Birds explore the spaces between ordinary and fantastical moments on “Pink Light” [BPM Premiere]

1 week ago | beatsperminute.com | Joshua Pickard

Hailing from The Catskills, cosmic folk and avant pop collective Two Dark Birds are keenly interested in how best to unmoor themselves from any given musical antecedents. They conspire to create a bit of rural theatricality which doesn’t succumb to twangy opulence or melodic banality. Listening to their work is akin to wandering through a fog-draped forest, feeling the light touch of nature with every step and finding truly miraculous things in the places that others fail to notice.
Preview: London’s new 5-night festival, LIDO

1 week ago | beatsperminute.com | Todd Dedman

Next month sees the inaugural LIDO Festival take place in London’s Victoria Park, and Beats Per Minute will be along for the ride. The five nights, spread over two weekends, will see an eclectic mix of acts ranging from pop, house, hip-hop, to post-hardcore and punk.
Album Review: Billy Nomates - Metalhorse

1 week ago | beatsperminute.com | Ray Finlayson

[Invada; 2025]It’s safe to say Tor Maries (aka Billy Nomates) has been through the wringer. In between transitioning to managing herself and dealing with an onslaught of misogynistic hate and abuse from a Glastonbury performance (which eventually had to be taken down), Maries lost her father to Parkinsons. All the while, she was working on her third album, Metalhorse. Presented with all this, many would retreat and abandon work.
Album Review: Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars

2 weeks ago | beatsperminute.com | Kyle Kohner

[Matador; 2025]After Making a Door Less Open, it felt like the sprawling story of Car Seat Headrest might’ve ended – not with a bang nor even a whimper, but with an indifferent and unconfident shrug. The album, released into the liminal pandemic haze of 2020, never found its footing: part performance art, part identity crisis, part unfinished thesis on what it means to wear a mask when no one’s looking, it lacked the sharpness wrought in the crucible of touring.
Four Tet and William Tyler reveal collab album with 11-minute overhaul of “If I Had A Boat”

2 weeks ago | beatsperminute.com | Rob Hakimian

London producer Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) and Tennessee guitarist William Tyler are set to continue their somewhat unlikely collaboration on a new full-length record, the pair have revealed. Titled 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s, it will arrive on 19 September through Eat Your Own Ears / Temporary Residence. The pair previously released the 12″ single “Darkness, Darkness” b/w “No Services” back in 2023, but it seems they’ve been toiling away on much more.
Wonderlick share jangling art-pop wonder “Niagara Falls, 1969”, announce North American tour [BPM Premiere]

2 weeks ago | beatsperminute.com | Joshua Pickard

Who can stand against the rising authoritarianism we find ourselves confronted with on a daily basis? Do we step aside and hope for the best or make a concerted effort to better the world around us? For musicians Jay Blumenfield and Tim Quirk, those are easy questions to answer.
Podcast: Meet Our Makers Episode 90: Tune-Yards – Age of Interruption; or, Rhythmic Buttprint

2 weeks ago | beatsperminute.com | Jeremy Fisette

In this chat, we get to meet Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards. Garbus started Tune-Yards as a solo project, but quickly transformed into a duo with musical and life partner Nate Brenner, and they have now released their brand new LP, Better Dreaming, on 4AD. In this chat, Merrill and I go deep on the personal, global, emotional, and sociopolitical themes and inspirations behind the new record, as well as the production, writing, and composition process.
Glóey makes a memorable debut on “Away”

2 weeks ago | beatsperminute.com | Larry McClain

No, it’s not the Northern Lights. That glow in the night sky is the arrival of a new star from Iceland. Glóey (who wisely shortened her name from Glóey Eyjólfsdóttir) just released her debut single “Away” that’s quickly rising up several Fresh Finds playlists. It’s an LGBTQ+ love ballad that’s intimate and beautifully sung. Gloey’s voice has a confidence and command that you seldom hear in a new artist. Listeners may hear parallels to other great singers like American treasure Sophia James.