Chris DeVille

Late last year, the Blessed Madonna released her first solo single in half a decade, “Serotonin Moonbeams” featuring Uffie. Today Marea Stamper is back with another collaboration, this time with Chicago house pioneer Jamie Principle. Per Stamper, it’s a track years in the making:  » Read More

Beck is back in acoustic mode. The ever-morphing musician has been doing solo acoustic shows lately, he covered Neil Young for an NFL ad, and his new single “Thinking About You” — alas, not a Frank Ocean cover — taps into that morose ballad zone that made Sea Change so compelling and won Morning Phase a Grammy.  » Read More

When visiting the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, it’s customary to perform a cover song. Lizzo’s choice was “Unholy,” the massive and historic Sam Smith/Kim Petras hit that became culture-war fodder after Smith and Petras performed it with a campy/spooky devil theme at the Grammys. Lizzo’s take on “Unholy”  » Read More

Bodysync, the production duo comprising Giraffage and Ryan Hemsworth, are back with their first single since last fall’s “this edible ain’t shit.” The new one, “Rhythm,” is another huge sample-based disco-house loop, this time built around a simple spoken hook: “Move your feet to the rhythm of the beat.”  » Read More

To promote their collaborative album Her Loss last year, Drake and 21 Savage staged fake media appearances such as visits to SNL and Howard Stern and a COLORS performance. One of those counterfeit promo ops was a fabricated Vogue cover, which got the rappers into legal trouble.  » Read More

We just alerted you to a new Beach House EP dropping on Record Store Day, which reminds us: The full Record Store Day release slate is out!  » Read More

Beach House finished rolling out a whole double LP a year ago, but it turns out there was still more music left over from the Once Twice Melody sessions. The five-song Become EP will be a Record Store Day exclusive first, with digital release to follow six days later and worldwide physical release in May.  » Read More

Wand leader Cory Hanson’s new solo album is called Western Cum. If the title does not strike you as appealing, get a, um, load of the guitar action on lead single “Housefly,” which is indeed orgasmic. We’re talking spicy country-rock licks, a big “Interstate Love Song” highway-cruiser riff, a Jim O’Rourke-esque sparkling six-string symphony on the bridge?  » Read More

In recent years, former Bay Area indie rock super-producer John Vanderslice has moved to LA, gotten way into psychedelic drugs, and started releasing electronic music. His new album CRYSTALS 3.0 — named after a method of synthesizing pure LSD — sees him funneling those experiences back into the artisanal indie-pop singer-songwriter fare he made his name on.  » Read More