Beats Per Minute (formerly One Thirty BPM) is a New York City– and Los Angeles–based online publication providing reviews, news, media, interviews and feature articles about the music world.
Beats Per Minute covers a variety of genres and specializes in rock, hip hop, and electronic music.
[2][3] Beats Per Minute was founded in late 2008 as a five-man operation[citation needed] and named as a reference to the Of Montreal song "Suffer for Fashion".
[4] As of 2011, Beats Per Minute had expanded to a staff of about 50 contributors based in the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, Germany, Australia, and Sweden.
[5] The site changed its name from One Thirty BPM to Beats Per Minute in January 2012.