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Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Formal Sppeedwear – Punch Card Typo loving misfits Formal Sppeedwear produce angular, wonky indie pop that playfully eschews pattern and structure. Quite frankly, they’re a glorious mess, but one that has design at its centre. Across their debut album
Beats Per MinuteScenesBig Ears Festival announces 2027 lineup: Thundercat, Weyes Blood, Natalie Merchant, Norah Jones, Jeff Tweedy, Oneohtrix Point Never Big Ears Festival returns to Knoxville, Tennessee next year from April 1-4, bringing its own unique perspective on the irrelevancy of traditional musical genres and artists who share its point of view on sonic fluidity.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Sleep – Hempispheres There’s not many occasions of a single work becoming such a monolith that it retroactively lifts an obscure band into mainstream recognition. Usually, cult albums remain just that: a small jewel that goes on to inspire m
Beats Per MinuteScenesFestival Review: End Of The Road – 3-6 September 2026 Thursday As we sat in the unmoving line of traffic snaking through the countryside, with the car park supposedly some three miles or so off, everyone was thinking the same things: “This doesn’t usually happen” and “Are w
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Rebecca Black – Age of the Exhibitionist Rebecca Black has been trying to do the impossible over the past decade and a half: recognise the importance of her genesis moment that propelled her to fame while also trying to move on from it. And when it’s fame as si
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Carmen Villain – Memoria Norwegian-Mexican musician Carmen Villain has always been reaching for that something else, trying to scratch the itch of evolution and understanding of her art. Her music has always been moving forward, growing and deve
Beats Per MinuteScenesValerie June collaborates with Sam Amidon on cover of blues standard, “Trouble in Mind” For the final preview from her forthcoming EP, Brighter Blue , multi-instrumentalist Valerie June has joined forces with Sam Amidon to cover the blues standard, “Trouble in Mind” – a beautiful and barnstorming classic th
Beats Per MinuteScenesTeenage Fanclub reflect on yearning and the echoes of Glasgow on new single, “Be With You Tonight” Teenage Fanclub will release their latest album, Do Not Dare to Dream , on October 9, and it finds them continuing to refine their inimitable blend of melody-forward songcraft and reflective lyrical narratives. Having pr
Beats Per MinuteScenesJess Kerber announces new album, embraces her gossamer reflection on “Changing” Nashville musician Jess Kerber will release her new album, T he World Is Dark, but I Want It to Be Funny , on November 6 on Felte — and it acts as a continuation of the nuanced songcraft she developed on her debut record
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Jorja Smith – What Are The Odds Ten years ago Jorja Smith uploaded a song about police lights and became famous before she had finished being a teenager. “Blue Lights” arrived in 2016, she was 19, and the decade since has produced a BRIT Award, two alb
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Chat Pile – Who Loves The Sun It would have been too bitter, too evidently ironic if Chat Pile had released Who Loves The Sun one week after its official release date. Their third album (or fourth, depending how you count) would then have graced the
Beats Per MinuteScenesLive Review: Blood Orange and more at Rally, London, 29 August 2026 Returning to Southwark Park for a fourth year, Rally Festival has spawned and sustained an individual vibe even in its short lifespan. It’s said to be inspired by “DIY culture and grassroots movements” , and even as the
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Interpol – This Mirror Weighs A Ton There’s one particular moment from many years ago that I can never quite get out of my head: during a fantastic Berlin show, Interpol ‘s frontman Paul Banks introduced the entire band, by name – except touring keyboarder
Beats Per MinuteScenesBPM Curates: August 2026 And just like that, summer was over. But you’re not ready to let go of the memories and the feeling just yet – and it wants to stick with you too. Music is intrinsically linked with memory, and we’ve put together a playl
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Dinosaur Jr. – There Near It has been now over four decades that we have been getting that incredible combination of guitar-dominated noise, melody and often left-field lyrics from Dinosaur Jr . There were break ups and pick ups, perfect sounds a
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Brandon Flowers – THRASHER Given his predilection towards the genre, it’s no big surprise that Brandon Flowers finally made a fully-fledged country-western album. The Killers frontman has also shown his fondness for country before, be it with his
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Antony Szmierek – Decoding Birdsong Antony Szmierek is a romantic. A believer in possibilities and positive outcomes, his is a voice that we need right now. Last year’s breakthrough debut Service Station at the End of the Universe was a dancefloor-centric
Beats Per MinuteScenesLive Review: Outbreak Festival, London, 23 August 2026 Within a couple of hours of being on-site you realise you’ll need two showers afterwards to get really clean and your white socks will never be the same again. The lush grass of Victoria Park has been turned into a dustb
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Lambchop – Punching The Clown It might sound trite and oversimplified to label what Kurt Wagner and Lambchop have gone through so far as a ‘long and winding road’, but it feels apt. It was a long 40 years ago now that the embryo of Lambchop emerged a
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: The Afghan Whigs – Soft Control “ He’s all thin now, and he wears these little tight suits, and he’s got these grandpa reading glasses, like, ‘Hey, I can’t do nothing to nobody no more. Oh, me? I’m just an old, old man. I don’t have the appetites’”. Jo
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Westside Cowboy – It Goes On Let’s get straight to the point: Westside Cowboy ‘s debut album It Goes On is excellent. Hailed by many as the best new guitar band in Britain, the four piece of Jimmy Bradbury (vocals, guitar), Reuben Haycocks (vocals,
Beats Per MinuteScenesLive Review: A Celebration of Jason Molina at EartH Theatre, London, 19 August 2026 When Jason Molina died at the age of just 39 in 2013, it would have been hard to imagine that a little more than 13 years later, a tribute event to the late singer-songwriter at London’s EartH Theatre would all but sell
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Jungle – Sunshine Absorbing and transcendent in sound, Jungle started out as an indie duo in 2014 formed by London natives Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland. From the outset, the band always had a knack for producing resplendent tracks
Beats Per MinuteScenes6 must-see sets at this weekend’s Outbreak Festival in London The runaway success of Outbreak Festival continues this Sunday, 23 August, in London’s Victoria Park. First staged in Sheffield in 2011, the festival was founded by 14 year olds Jordan Coupland and Lee Fellows as a predo
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