Chris DeVille

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

In the lead-up to the first show of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour two weeks ago, Glendale, AZ, which hosted the show at State Farm Stadium, temporarily changed its name to Swift City in addition to various Swift-related decorations and business promotions in the area. But Glendale is not the only Eras Tour host city that will be catering to Swifties through officially sanctioned government proclamations and such.  » Read More

Houses Of The Holy, the fifth Led Zeppelin album and the first not to be titled with a number, reached its 50th anniversary on Tuesday. To mark the occasion, Jimmy Page shared “The Seasons,” a previously unreleased six-and-a-half-minute instrumental demo that eventually evolved into “The Rain Song.”  » Read More

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