Chris DeVille

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

In June of 2018, just as he was rising to superstardom, the controversial Florida rapper XXXTentacion was murdered during a robbery at just 20 years old. Today, nearly five years later, three men were found guilty of first-degree murder in his killing.  » Read More

Do you realize Sigur Rós haven’t released a new album in 10 years? Valtari and Kveikur arrived 13 months apart in 2012 and 2013, and since then it’s been EPs, soundtracks, and other projects that should not be categorized as Official Sigur Rós Albums. They were working out new material on the road around the time I saw them play a spellbinding set at Primavera Sound — in 2016,  » Read […]

Trust Fund, the UK indie-pop act led by Ellis Jones, is active again after breaking up in 2018 — or at least Jones is releasing solo material under the Trust Fund name. Last year he shared the minimal one-offs “can’t take it,” “capital,”  » Read More

“The best teenage band since Squirrel Bait.” Making that your Bandcamp bio is one way to grab the attention of discerning underground rock fans with an ear toward history. The Chicago trio Lifeguard clearly know their way around the classics, at least if your definition of “classic” includes the frantic, noise-wrecked punk offshoots of the ’80s — like,  » Read More