Chris DeVille

The fallout from Frank Ocean’s Coachella fiasco continues. Ocean’s feverishly anticipated Coachella headlining set Sunday — his first live performance in six years — went awry when he suffered an ankle injury at the festival site and scrapped plans for a planned onstage ice-rink, which was to feature about 120 skaters who’d been rehearsing for weeks.  » Read More

Rob Moose has long been the go-to string arranger for the indie and mainstream stars. The list of artists for whom Moose has supplied orchestral splendor is long and impressive, and many of them will make appearances on the yMusic member’s new EP. Inflorescence is out in August, and it includes features from Bon Iver,  » Read More

Island Of Love, not to be confused with Love Island, is the first signing to Third Man UK. The noisy, ’90s-ish rock band announced their self-titled debut for the label with a pair of singles last month. This week they served up another single from the album,  » Read More

Back in 2004, Beck contributed his transcendently sad Korgis cover “Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime” to the soundtrack of Michel Gondry’s arthouse sci-fi rom-com Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Gondry also directed Beck’s videos for “Deadweight” and “Cellphone’s Dead.” Now the pair’s creative paths have crossed again.  » Read More

It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with the Brooklyn indie-pop duo Stolen Jars, but big things are on the horizon for TikTok-famous comedian Sarah Coffey and film composer Cody Fitzgerald. Specifically, a new album called I Won’t Let Me Down is on the way, produced by Hop Along’s Joe Reinhart and featuring Greta Kline of Frankie Cosmos.  » Read More

Last August, police raided the southern Ohio home of Afroman, the rapper born Joseph Foreman, known for his novelty hit “Because I Got High.” Afroman’s wife filmed the raid, which was also captured on his security cameras. He then used images from the raid on merchandise and in music videos. In March,  » Read More

The 10th anniversary deluxe edition of Daft Punk’s hit-launching, Grammy-winning blockbuster Random Access Memories is due out in May. The duo has thus far shared outtakes from the “Fragments Of Time” recording sessions, and today they’ve got a radical alternate take of album opener “Give Life Back To Music.”  » Read More

The latest addition to storied Memphis garage-punk label Goner Records is C.O.F.F.I.N., who’ve been going strong since 2005 and recently toured with fellow Australian noise-makers Amyl And The Sniffers. The ripping (or is that R.I.P.-ing) Sydney punk band’s debut single for Goner, “Cut You Off,” is hard-charging and burly, an insanely fast rock ‘n’  » Read More

They weren’t the most famous band in America, but the end of the Sidekicks was a traumatic event for many. Even before they became one of the most consistently excellent bands on Epitaph in the 2010s, the Ohio pop-rockers were legends within the DIY-house-show scene that nurtured them (and on websites like PunkNews.org,  » Read More