Chris DeVille

The Creek Drank The Cradle was the first Iron & Wine album, but it feels like the beginning of something far bigger than just one band. Admittedly, Sam Beam was not the first person to record folk-rock on a four-track. It was rarely the hottest thing going, but lo-fi acoustic music proliferated in the years leading up to Beam’s debut — from Beck and Elliott Smith to Badly Drawn Boy […]

The prodigious genre-melding pop-rocker Julien Chang has been rolling out his new album The Sale with singles including the Beach Fossils-esque “Marmalade” and the orchestral chamber-pop ballad “Time & Place.” Today he’s back with “Snakebit,” a jazz-inflected ’80s pop exercise that feels like a cross between Grizzly Bear and the 1975.  » Read More

The Smashing Pumpkins have a new album on the way, and it sounds extremely on-brand. Just look at that album title. ATUM: A Rock Opera In Three Acts. Yes. Bask in the Billy-Corgan-ness of it all.  » Read More

50 Cent has filed a lawsuit against Angela Kogan, a Miami plastic surgeon, Billboard reports. In the lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court, 50 (real name Curtis Jackson) alleges that he “graciously agreed” to take a seemingly innocuous photo with Kogan two years ago and that the “unscrupulous business owner”  » Read More

We haven’t heard from angel-voiced singer-songwriter Adam Torres since 2017’s I Came To Sing The Song EP, but he makes an appearance on the new Old Fire album Voids, which also has Julia Holter, Emily Cross, and a whopping three Bill Callahan features. We learned about the project with the release of the Callahan collab “  » Read More

Harry Styles’ “As It Was” refuses to go away. Released way back on the final day of March, the A-ha-meets-Vampire-Weekend pop hit has not relented, even with another Harry’s House track, “Late Night Talking” also making a recent surge. “As It Was” is in the midst of its fifth separate run on top of the Hot 100.  » Read More

Paramore are on the comeback trail, including fall tour dates, rampant teasers, and a new single called “This Is Why” dropping next week. They recently tacked a pair of intimate LA shows onto their tour itinerary, and today they added an underplay in New York at the Beacon Theatre (capacity: 2,894) on Nov.  » Read More

Arbutus Records, the influential Montreal indie label that helped to launch Grimes, Braids, Majical Cloudz, and many others, has just put out its 100th release. It’s a self-referential comp called The Arbutus Record on which artists on the label cover other artists on the label. That includes, on back to back tracks,  » Read More

BEAK> — the trio of Geoff Barrow, Billy Fuller, and Will Young — wrote and recorded a soundtrack for the new graphic novel Kosmik Musik by writer Ben Wheatley and artist Joe Currie. The music is officially out this Friday, but it hit Bandcamp today. It can be experienced as one 21-minute piece or broken up into seven shorter tracks.  » Read More