Chris DeVille

Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd? If you follow the music press and/or Lana Del Rey’s career (as if a person could possibly keep up with the former without inadvertently absorbing the latter), you did know that. LDR has been rolling out her latest opus since December, during which time she’s revealed title track “  » Read More

Pickathon will return to Pendarvis Farm outside Portland this Aug. 3-6, and as usual its lineup is one of the most fascinating and diverse of this year’s festival season. As revealed at Consequence today, performers include Watchhouse (fka Mandolin Orange), both Wednesday and MJ Lenderman, Lee Fields, Dehd,  » Read More

Jam City, the British producer born Jack Latham, has a new album on the way. Jam City Presents EFM drops at the top of June; it features Empress Of, Wet, Clara La San, and quite a few collabs with Aidan, who guests on the dreamy hip-hop disco track “Times Square,”  » Read More

Lucinda Chua is part of a wave of artists doing fascinating experimental music rooted in classical traditions. This Friday she’ll release her debut solo album YIAN, preceded today by one last single. Recorded in an “ASMR cave” set up by Chua, the Yeule collab “Something Other Than Years” is arrestingly dense and slow — a ballad that really conveys the weight of its subject matter.  » Read More

On my first listen through the National’s new album First Two Pages Of Frankenstein, “Eucalyptus” jumped out. The track has continued to be a favorite on subsequent spins, ingratiating itself as one of the highlights of the band’s recent catalog. So I’m glad it’s out today as the project’s latest single following “  » Read More

Southeast Ohio’s Nelsonville Music Festival, one of the great regional music fests in North America, is moving on the calendar in 2023. The event used to take place in late spring/early summer, and last year it was on Labor Day weekend, partially due to a location change. This year it’s going down July 21-23 at Snow Fork Event Center with one of its best lineups to date.  » Read More

At our free Range Life party in Austin during SXSW last week, photographer Laura Harvey was buzzing around Cheer Up Charlie’s, wrangling every act on the bill for a series of great portraits in the vicinity. The show was a blast, bringing together 12 killer acts from an array of genres and keeping us entertained for six hours straight.  » Read More

Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1997 for his role as the former lead singer for Parliament-Funkadelic, has died. George Clinton and the band announced Haskins’ death Saturday: “We are saddened to announce the passing of an original Parliament Funkadelic member Clarence Eugene ‘Fuzzy’  » Read More

It’s been almost two years since we learned Crying In H Mart, the bestselling memoir by Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner, would be adapted into a feature film. Now we know who’ll direct it. The movie — which is about Zauner navigating her Korean-American identity growing up,  » Read More