Chris DeVille

Last week Ashley Morgan Smithline, one of many women accusing Marilyn Manson of gross sexual misconduct, officially recanted her allegations. Smithline said Evan Rachel Wood (pictured), who has also levied abuse claims at Manson and chronicled her history with Manson in the HBO docuseries Phoenix Rising,  » Read More

Almost a year ago, the extremely online and indie-friendly rap favorites Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA debuted a new song onstage at the Smoker’s Club Festival and announced they were working on an album together. In January they reported that the project would drop this year. And today, on an episode of Brown’s YouTube talk show The Danny Brown Show,  » Read More

NYC hyperpop singer-songwriter sadie has a new EP called Tides on the way. She shared lead single “All Night” a month ago, and today we hear the title track, a bright yet melancholy slow drift that feels like being enveloped by clouds of digital feeling. “While I was writing Tides I was thinking a lot about impermanence,  » Read More

The Brazilian folk musician Sessa impressed us with last year’s Estrela Acesa, his first album for Mexican Summer. Today he’s back with a new song called “Vento a Favor,” which he co-produced with fellow Brazilian Biel Basile and American Mikey Coltun, who plays bass in Mdou Moctar’s band and helped facilitate Moctar’s breakthrough in North America.  » Read More

Clipse, the legendary coke-rap duo comprising brothers Pusha T and No Malice, spent a good solid decade broken up, but in the 2020s they’ve been gesturing at a reunion. The Thornton brothers were supposed to get back together for Pharrell’s Something In The Water festival in 2020, plans foiled by COVID, but they eventually took the stage for a few songs at the 2022 edition of the fest in Washington, […]

The Weeknd has landed his first starring movie role. The pop superstar, who recently became the first artist to rack up 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify, is now ready to push deeper into his acting career. After playing a younger version of himself in the 2019 cult classic Uncut Gems and starring in the forthcoming HBO series The Idol,  » Read More

Three weeks ago, Tony Molina (the bite-sized power-pop veteran) and Sarah Rose Janko (leader of the country-rock band Dawn Riding) announced their debut album as the Lost Days and shared its title track single “In The Store.” They’ve got a second single out today, and it rules. “For Today”  » Read More

Beale Street Music Festival — now that’s some simple and direct branding. Except it’s not actually on Beale Street! Though Beale does intersect with Riverside Dr., where festival site Tom Lee Park sits on the banks of the Mississippi. I retract my statement.  » Read More

Last May, a few months into Ukraine’s war with an invading Russia, U2’s Bono and the Edge played a surprise concert in a Ukrainian bomb shelter. At that performance, they collaborated with Taras Topolya, a Ukrainian soldier who also fronts the band Antytila. Last night in London, the two U2 members showed up at Antytila’s concert at Electric Brixton to assist with a cover of The Joshua Tree closer “Mothers […]