Chris DeVille

The new Thus Love song is not a John Fogerty cover. The Vermont trio’s “Centerfield” is a composition of their own, a gloomy new wave slow jam that sounds like it maybe could have come out in 1985, the same year as the other “Centerfield,” but also sounds nothing like CCR. “Dark day/ Centerfield,”  » Read More

Put simply, “Pavlov’s Dog” is a song about sexual desire. Anna B Savage’s final advance single from in|FLUX, her new album dropping this Friday, is an understated but propulsive track all about a positive sexual encounter. The song is all potential energy, a study in tension with no release.  » Read More

My favorite music from avant-garde guitar legend Bill Orcutt is the wild electric improv material he’s released with drummer Chris Corsano, but the former Harry Pussy member is adept with the acoustic too. At the end of April he’ll release Jump On It, a new solo acoustic LP billed as a sequel to his decade-old American standards collection A History Of Every One.  » Read More

When Rihanna agreed to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show, two questions arose. One: Does this mean new music is coming? Two: Didn’t she once turn down the Super Bowl in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick? A new interview with RiRi addresses both questions.  » Read More

Alert! Alert! A T-Pain covers album is on the way! It’s called On Top Of The Covers! And look at that packshot! A covers album called On Top Of The Covers needs a good cover, and this one does not disappoint.  » Read More

Last year Snail Mail and Mac DeMarco teamed up on a loosie called “A Cuckhold’s Refrain” under the name Peppermint Patty. Monday, on the fourth night of Lindsey Jordan’s Valentine Fest at Baltimore’s Ottobar — which already yielded an Avril Lavigne cover with Soccer Mommy over the weekend — DeMarco showed up during Snail Mail’s encore to perform the collab,  » Read More

Island Of Love are the first band signed to Third Man Records London. As the story goes, the London rock trio was the first act besides Jack White himself to play Third Man’s new London venue the Blue Basement, and the label signed them during the first cigarette break after their set.  » Read More

Lamp Of Murmuur is a one-person black metal act out of LA helmed by an anonymous musician known only as M. For new album Saturnian Bloodstorm, he’s traded out the lo-fi production quality for arena-scale clarity while maintaining the essence of the genre. Today’s new single “Seal Of The Dominator”  » Read More

Post Malone has a guest spot in a new episode of the long-running hidden-camera reality show Impractical Jokers. In a clip from the episode, Posty poses as an auto service worker who hotboxes an angry and incredulous customer’s car, then meekly offering Febreze as a solution for the gigantic clouds of marijuana smoke inside the vehicle.  » Read More