Chris DeVille

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

Coachella’s first weekend is here, and the fest is going all-out with the webcasts this year. Six separate YouTube livestreams are available for this weekend’s festivities, each one dedicated to a particular stage. Thus far there’s been no word of any performers opting out of the livestream program, so it seems you’ll be able to watch headliners Frank Ocean,  » Read More

That Jonny Greenwood is a busy man: touring and recording with the Smile, composing umpteen film scores, collaborating with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa on a new album. And now the Radiohead mad scientist has added cooking entrepreneurship to his portfolio. On the band’s W.A.S.T.E.  » Read More

Before today, the New York indie band Crumb hadn’t released a song in two years. That changes with “Crushxd,” a hallucinatory new track that reminds me a bit of Broadcast and Men I Trust. Produced by Jonathan Rado and Johnscott, the song is inspired by an incident that haunted Crumb’s first big US tour in 2018.  » Read More