Chris DeVille

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

Love’s Holiday, the new album from San Francisco experimental rock veterans Oxbow, is coming this summer. It’s the first Oxbow album in six years, it was co-produced by Joe Chiccarelli and Oxbox guitarist Niko Wenner, and it features today’s awesome lead single “1000 Hours” — a rumbling, wide-open landscape that sort of sounds like an apocalyptic yet hopeful Soundgarden song produced by Mark Hollis.  » Read More

Jai Paul made his long-awaited debut performance at Coachella over the weekend, a decade after the legendary leaked demos collection that eventually became the official release Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones). Now the feverishly beloved cult artist has announced his first slate of non-festival performances.  » Read More

Life In Vacuum are a band based in Toronto, formed in Ukraine, playing an aggressive form of indie rock that pulls from a few different subgenres. I hear some Fugazi-style post-hardcore and some Metz-esque noise-rock in the mix. “Hugo” sounds like angry garage howlers Hot Snakes attempting to write something like Interpol’s propulsive post-punk masterpiece “PDA.”  » Read More

Mark Sheehan, lead guitarist for Irish rock band the Script, has died. The band announced Sheehan’s death today, writing, “Much loved husband, father, brother, band mate and friend Mark Sheehan passed away today in hospital after a brief illness. The family and group ask fans to respect their privacy at this tragic time.”  » Read More

Paramore played 3Arena in Dublin on Thursday in support of this year’s This Is Why, and Hayley Williams broke out a locally appropriate cover to mark the occasion. A little more than halfway through the show, Williams played a solo acoustic version of “Dreams,” the 1992 debut single from Limerick’s own the Cranberries.  » Read More