Chris DeVille

In this fucked-up world, one blessing we can all be grateful for is that Bill Callahan seems to be once more kicking out albums at a steady clip. Callahan went seven years between LPs at one point there, but he’s back today with his third in four years.  » Read More

The Leonard Cohen tribute album out today on Blue Note is titled Here It Is. The title track is sung by Peter Gabriel, who makes a rare appearance here, doing his best impression of Cohen’s gruff low-register vocals. We’ve previously heard Cohen covers from James Taylor,  » Read More

A week from today, Sleater-Kinney will release Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album, featuring renditions of songs from 2017’s Dig Me Out by a range of artists including Wilco, St. Vincent, and Low. They already shared Courtney Barnett’s spin on “Words And Guitar”  » Read More

Beck has dropped off Arcade Fire’s North American tour, which is set to start Oct. 28 at Washington, DC’s The Anthem. He was announced to open the shows with an acoustic set, but according to emails received by various ticketholders today, he will be replaced by Boukman Eksperyans, the Haitian group that opened for Arcade Fire at European shows last month.  » Read More

R.A.P. Ferreira has been on a twisty, heady, poetic tear lately, first paying homage to his grandfather on the one-off “Black Paladin’s Theme (free take)” and then introducing new album 5 To The Eye With Stars with the Hemlock Ernst collab “Mythsysizer Instinct.”  » Read More

One of girl in red’s breakthrough hits was “We Fell In Love In October,” a wistful indie-pop love song built on simple drums, echo-laden guitars, and elegant orchestral strings — sort of like Vivian Girls with a chamber-pop twist. Ever since its release in 2018, the song has always picked up streams in the fall,  » Read More

Judas Priest kicked off their fall tour last night at the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, Connecticut, and the setlist was laden with rarities. Most notably, the band performed “Genocide” for the first time since 1982. “I don’t think we’ve played this song in living memory,” Rob Halford announced before the performance.  » Read More

Gin Blossoms have long been the pride of Tempe, and now the Arizona city has officially honored the band. A stretch of Eighth Street between Rural Road and Una Avenue will now be known as Allison Road Avenue — a reference to the group’s 1994 hit “Allison Road.” There was a ceremony unveiling the street sign today,  » Read More

Did you know M.I.A. has a new album out today? It’s true. But MATA and its somewhat tempestuous rollout have been completely overshadowed by M.I.A.’s way more tempestuous social media takes. Wednesday, after a jury ordered conspiracy theory huckster Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 billion in damages to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims,  » Read More