Chris DeVille

In the months since last summer’s Beatopia, beabadoobee has continued to release music, but mostly covers: the Strokes, the Sundays, Vanessa Carlton. She’s also been announced as one of the openers for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.  » Read More

Tame Impala’s masterful, massively influential sophomore album Lonerism turned 10 years old last fall, a milestone the band celebrated by performing the album in full at Desert Daze. (I was there; it was good.) Now, just as they did for debut album InnerSpeaker,  » Read More

The late designer Virgil Abloh, who was the men’s creative director at Louis Vuitton at the time of his death in 2021, maintained close ties to the music industry during his lifetime, including a stint as Kanye West’s creative director. Louis Vuitton’s replacement for Abloh comes directly from that world: The fashion brand announced today that none other than Pharrell Williams has been hired as Men’s Creative Director.  » Read More

Heriot are theoretically a hardcore band, the same way Code Orange and Vein.fm and Jesus Piece are hardcore bands — that is, they sound a whole hell of a lot like a metal band, even a nu-metal band at times. Their instruments tuned so low that each power chord sounds like an entire city block being ripped from the earth,  » Read More

Maxo, the LA rapper who is not to be confused with Houston’s Maxo Kream or the former PC Music affiliate Maxo, is about to release his latest LP for Def Jam. Even God Has A Sense Of Humor drops Wednesday of next week, Maxo’s 28th birthday. “Life is always gonna be life-ing,”  » Read More

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Spencer Tweedy has a cool new project out today. On drumprints vol. 1: 2301, Jeff Tweedy’s son and sometimes bandmate has assembled 10 drumbeats built with the express purpose of being sampled. They also fit together as an album, but the potential for breakbeats is obvious. He’s offering up the project for free,  » Read More

Once a month, Philadelphia metallic hardcore heroes Jesus Piece have been giving us a relentless new single ahead of …So Unknown, their first album in five years. In December, to announce their return, it was “An Offering To The Night.” In January, upon detailing the new album,  » Read More

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