Chris DeVille

Ross From Friends, who is not David Schwimmer but is actually British dance music producer and Brainfeeder affiliate Felix Clary Weatherall, is back with his first new music since 2021’s Tread. “The One” is a brisk, bouncy, and ultimately euphoric house track built around the phrase “You are the one for me.”  » Read More

The post-midnight Mandy, Indiana set I saw at SXSW this year was both clarifying and mystifying. My exposure to the Manchester quartet’s recordings had me thinking they were some kind of art-damaged industrial noise thing like HEALTH. There’s some of that in their DNA, but onstage they’re more like a weirder-than-average dance-rock band fronted by a true freak in Valentine Caulfield.  » Read More

After a slew of loosely connected releases across various members’ catalogs, Balming Tiger, the alternative K-pop collective and Band To Watch, will release their first official studio album this year. Following “Sexy Nukim” and “Trust Yourself,” the next single is out today.  » Read More

SZA’s S.O.S. was the first blockbuster of 2023, yielding a #2 smash in “Kill Bill” and sitting at #1 on the Billboard 200 for eight of the year’s first nine weeks (after also leading the last two weeks of 2022). Her first headlining arena tour has accordingly been a big success,  » Read More

The DC emo duo Origami Angel will head out on tour on a great triple bill with Pinkshift and Sweet Pill later this month. But first, they’re sharing a fun, frenetic new single. “Thank You, New Jersey” weaves all kinds of stylistic threads into the band’s emo baseline,  » Read More

The Denver hardcore label Convulse Records is on an insane hot streak right now. They released stunners from MSPAINT, Gel, and Nag within Q1, and coming up they’ve got the Gumm album that yielded one of last week’s best songs. Today Convulse has another sick release to share: the self-titled cassette from their Denver neighbors Sanitizers.  » Read More

Karol G is not happy with GQ. The Colombian pop star, who is currently enjoying historic success for a Spanish-speaking artist in the United States, appears on the new cover of GQ Mexico. Except, according to Karol G, the image is not really her.  » Read More

KAYTRAMINÉ is the new pairing of rapper Aminé and producer Kaytranada, though it’s not really that new of a pairing. The two artists have been circling each other since 2014, when Aminé turned Kaytranada’s 2013 single “At All” into the bootleg remix “Not At All.” This led to three Kaytra credits on Aminé’s 2015 mixtape Calling Brio.  » Read More

The LA duo THEY. have been kicking around the edges of the pop and R&B world for years. Today they’ve released their new album Nü Moon, which features a collab with none other than Kacey Musgraves. With its depressive mid-tempo vibe and mixture of acoustic guitar and a trap beat,  » Read More