Chris DeVille

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

The Netflix series Beef, about the increasingly wild and complicated fallout from a road-rage incident, is getting rave reviews. It’s also apparently full of radio-friendly alternative rock and TRL-era teen-pop needle drops.  » Read More

Launched in February 2022, Heardle was one of the most popular daily games to emerge in the wake of the latter-pandemic sensation Wordle. The premise: Players must guess which song they’re hearing as quickly as possible as the game reveals a few seconds of music at a time — so basically Name That Tune in internet form.  » Read More

Remember when Justin Timberlake brought sexy back? After 2018’s ill-conceived Man Of The Woods, the world would be content for Timberlake to simply bring fun back. Fortunately, if Timberlake’s longtime producer Timbaland can be believed, that’s what JT will do on his next LP.  » Read More