Chris DeVille

Animal Collective’s Avey Tare will release his new solo album 7s at the end of this week. Today he’s sharing one last single to go along with dual lead tracks “The Musical” and “Hey Bog.” Built around a delicately glimmering piano riff, “Invisible Darlings” is sort of a sophisti-pop spin on the woozy sound Avey has been cranking out for years.  » Read More

Damon Albarn, whose Gorillaz frequently collaborated with De La Soul — including on the hit “Feel Good Inc.” — has shared a musical tribute to the rap trio’s late, great Trugoy The Dove. Trugoy, aka Dave, aka Plug Two, died Sunday. To honor him, Albarn posted a short piano instrumental on Instagram captioned,  » Read More

Depeche Mode are ramping up to the release of Memento Mori, their first album since the keyboardist Andy Fletcher died last year. They played their first show since Fletcher’s death Saturday at the Sanremo Music Festival in Italy, where the new album’s excellent lead single “Ghosts Again”  » Read More

Slowcore greats Codeine are taking part in Numero Group’s ’90s-indie-themed 20th anniversary show Numero Twenty next weekend in Los Angeles. Ahead of that, they’re doing a pair of shows this weekend at Union Pool in Brooklyn, their first performances since 2012. At the first of the concerts Saturday night, Codeine broke out their cover of Joy Division’s “Atmosphere”  » Read More

In 2020, Huw Bunford, Cian Ciarán, Dafydd Ieuan, and Guto Pryce — four former members of Super Furry Animals — launched a new band called Das Koolies. Think of it as a less Gruff alternative to the Welsh weirdo pop-rock geniuses. The Cardiff crew have a new EP called The Condemned on the way,  » Read More

After releasing a Black Star reunion album that lots of people never heard because it exists behind a podcast network’s paywall, Talib Kweli is preparing to release his next big sequel the same way.  » Read More

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Last year Nina Nastasia ended a traumatic decade-plus hiatus from music with new album Riderless Horse. Today she has shared an updated version of that album’s “You Were So Mad,” converted into a duet with Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females. The song debuted at Brooklyn Vegan,  » Read More

Small Black returned with a new album in 2021, and in 2023 they’re releasing a sort-of new album. Having revived an old hard drive full of music recorded around the time of their 2009 self-titled debut EP, the band retrieved a bunch of old material and expanded the EP into a full album.  » Read More