Chris DeVille

Avatars Of The Night is a new 20-song album from Sondre Lerche consisting of remixes, reworks, live versions, and demos from his album Avatars Of Love, which turns a year old tomorrow. The new comp is out today, and part of its haul of bonus material is “The Most Savage Joke,”  » Read More

Cincinnati’s Leggy returned in September with “Lipstick On The Mic,” their first new song in three years. Today, that song has popped back up on a new Leggy album, their first in four. Dramatica comprises seven tracks of self-described “lush femme diy pop,” which encompasses a lot of different stylistic threads.  » Read More

Last fall, not long after going shopping for Halloween costumes with us, Weyes Blood released And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow, one of the best albums of 2022. Last night, Natalie Mering took to the Ed Sullivan Theater to sing “God Turn Me Into A Flower”  » Read More

The new single from reunited pop-punk favorites Midtown‘s covers EP We’re Too Old To Write New Songs So Here’s Some Old Songs We Didn’t Write is a remake of Pavement’s Crooked Rain classic “Cut Your Hair.” If slacker-indie legends Pavement are not the first band you expect to appear on a Midtown covers EP,  » Read More

One of the busiest bands at SXSW was Be Your Own Pet, the indie-sleaze-era garage-punk band who blasted out of Nashville as teenagers in the mid-aughts, released two wild albums in two years, and quickly broke up in 2008. The band played their first show in 14 years last spring,  » Read More

The HBO drama and dark satire Succession is back for its fourth and final season, as you’re surely aware if you consume any pop culture media whatsoever. One revelation from this promo cycle has been veteran actor Brian Cox’s taste for pop music at its most playful and sparkly. Though Cox plays the gruff asshole patriarch and right-wing media baron Logan Roy on the show,  » Read More

Fresh off a busy SXSW run that included a performance at our Range Life party, cult-beloved indie band Hotline TNT recently shared a new SoundCloud loosie called “If We Keep Hangin Out.” It’s a soft, jangly, lo-fi acoustic power-pop tune that reminds me of Elliott Smith and Big Star and Oso Oso,  » Read More

Way back in October 2020, Detroit rap’s weirdo hero Danny Brown tweeted “XXXX,” which seemed like a teaser for a new album. Brown broke through in 2011 with XXX, an album whose double-entendre title partially referred to him turning 30 years old. Many of us presumed the “XXXX”  » Read More

The initial premise of American Idol was that the show could pluck incredible talents from obscurity and make them pop stars. For a while, it lived up to that ideal. But very few Idol contestants go on to anything resembling stardom these days, and the show had fallen out of the zeitgeist long before it ended its run on Fox and was resurrected on ABC.  » Read More