Chris DeVille

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

With another multi-week #1 album and his first career #1 single so far this year, Morgan Wallen seems to have fully recovered from his 2021 racial slur scandal, though in many senses he never really took a hit. He was, however, hit by a splash of beer onstage in Melbourne over the weekend,  » Read More

Saturday Night Live has revealed its lineup of April hosts and musical guests. The show had already announced that Lil Yachty would perform on this weekend’s April 1 show alongside host Quinta Brunson. The following week, on April 8, SNL alum Molly Shannon will host with musical guest Jonas Brothers.  » Read More

Johanna Samuels is about to follow up 2021’s Excelsior! The LA singer-songwriter’s latest album, Bystander, is coming in June. It was produced by Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman, and its lead single “Ugly On The Inside” is out today.  » Read More

The Brooklyn grunge band Superbloom have a new EP on the way, but it sure feels like an LP. Life’s A Blur, the follow-up to the group’s 2021 debut album Pollen, comprises 11 tracks, including last year’s single “Daisy.” How is that not a full-length?  » Read More