Chris DeVille

For years, the Chicago artist Angel Marcloid has been making wild, genre-mangling music under the moniker Fire-Toolz. As of today, that catalog includes new album I am upset because I see something that is not there. The music on this release is as unpredictable as Fire-Toolz fans have come to expect,  » Read More

“WTF” is the latest collaboration between rap superstars YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Nicki Minaj. Set for YoungBoy’s upcoming album Don’t Try This At Home — a funny title given that he’s been living on house arrest in Utah — the track finds both rappers leaning into their melodic side,  » Read More

The estrangement between Mötley Crüe and their former guitarist Mick Mars continues to get messier. When Mars retired from touring due to his health condition ankylosing spondylitis, the plan was that he would remain a member of the band. But he sued Mötley Crüe this week, claiming that they’d “unilaterally”  » Read More

One of four men charged in the February 2020 killing of rising rap star Pop Smoke has been sentenced to four years and two months by the juvenile court in Inglewood, California. As the Associated Press reports, the 20-year-old pled guilty to charges of voluntary manslaughter and home invasion robbery.  » Read More

Taking in a Conway The Machine set at SXSW last month, I was struck by how much presence he brought to the stage and how much confidence he brought to the mic. (As a sports junkie, I also appreciated Conway’s Lil Wayne-like proclivity for name-checking athletes in his songs, and not just on the recent single “  » Read More

This week in the culture war: The Waukesha School District in Waukesha, Wisconsin prohibited first-graders from singing Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton’s 2017 collaboration “Rainbowland” on Monday, citing a rule against “controversial” issues in the classroom. Nodding to the LGBTQ+ community in its title, lyrically “Rainbowland” addresses inclusiveness in the most general terms,  » Read More

Back then he was going by Manitoba. I have lots of love and respect for the music Dan Snaith has released as Caribou, and I can refer to the likes of Swim and Suddenly as Caribou records without cognitive dissonance. But I refuse to recognize Up In Flames,  » Read More

Nearly a decade into their collaboration, brotherly DJ duo Overmono — aka Truss and Tessela, aka Tom and Ed Russell — are finally dropping an official debut album this spring. Today they’ve shared its title track. “Good Lies,” which features appealingly slinky vocals from Smerz, was the first song Overmono worked on expressly for the album and the last one they finished.  » Read More

“Praying for Deathgrips is online” reads the homepage for Praying, the ironic and inflammatory Christianity-themed niche fashion line known for such items as the Father, Son, Holy Spirit bikini. There are a few choice hats and hoodies and a lingerie set that basically ports over the design of that bikini onto underwear.  » Read More