Chris DeVille

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

Hannah Georgas is perhaps best known for her association with the National: She toured as part of the band’s I Am Easy To Find live show, tapped a pre-folklore Aaron Dessner to produce her 2020 album All That Emotion, and duetted with Matt Berninger on post-album loosie “  » Read More

The Las Vegas music festival Life Is Beautiful will celebrate its 10th anniversary this fall. Running Sept. 22-24 in Downtown Las Vegas, the fest will be headlined by 2023 festival scene mainstays Kendrick Lamar and Odesza plus hometown heroes the Killers. Also on the bill: The 1975, Flume, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Khalid,  » Read More

Run The Jewels’ self-titled debut album turns 10 years old this summer, and the rap duo is marking the occasion with a series of four-night runs in four cities this fall. Killer Mike and El-P’s sequence of long weekends will begin at Terminal 5 in New York in mid-September, followed by another at the Salt Shed in Chicago at the end of the month.  » Read More

The Minsk Sea is the new album from Lucidity, a band from Russia specializing in cataclysmic emoviolence. The album takes less than 12 minutes to burn through its seven tracks, and by the time it’s over you might be burned up too. It’s harshly intense and dynamic throughout, with scorched,  » Read More