Chris DeVille

Columbus

Managing Editor, @stereogum Posting indie nostalgia at @suchgr8heights Pre-order my debut book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, out 8/26 via @StMartinsPress, at link below

Articles

Merge Records Enters New Era As Secretly Group Takes Ownership Stake

1 week ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille |Craig Brewer

Here’s a behind-the-scenes seismic shift in the indie music landscape: Merge Records is selling a 50% stake to the founders of Secretly Group, and Merge co-founder Laura Ballance is getting out of the game. Ballance and her Superchunk bandmate Mac McCaughan started Merge in 1989, inspired by a visit to the Sub Pop office in Seattle on a cross-country road trip.
Equipment Share New Single "espresso lemonade": Listen

1 week ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille |Hayley Williams

Toledo emo band Equipment have a new single out today via a new label. Previous releases like 2023’s Alt.Account and last year’s fantastic one-off “tequila redbull” came out on Klepto Phase. Today’s new track “espresso lemonade” boasts a similar title and cover art, but it’s seeing release through Brain Synthesizer, whose roster previously included Michael Cera Palin and Park National. Equipment’s Josh Zander continues to write amazing lyrics.
Kevin Parker Debuts New Tame Impala Song In Barcelona

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

It’s been more than five years since Tame Impala released The Slow Rush. It came out before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. That’s a long time, though not much longer than it took Kevin Parker to follow up 2015’s Currents. In the interim, Parker has released a few scattered tracks including the Dungeons & Dragons soundtrack cut “Wings Of Time” and the Thundercat collab “No More Lies.” Last year he also guested on Justice’s “Neverender,” which won him his first Grammy.
Olivia Rodrigo Brought Out David Byrne For Talking Heads' "Burning Down The House" At Gov Ball

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

Olivia Rodrigo has good taste. She has often welcomed music heroes to the stage to perform their classic songs with them, a trend that continued Saturday in her headlining performance at New York’s Governors Ball.
Olivia Rodrigo Brought Out David Byrne For Talking Heads’ “Burning Down The House” At Gov Ball

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Chris DeVille

4 hours agoTwenty years after “A Million Little Pieces” became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience. James Frey was, for a time, one of the most famous nonfiction writers in America. And then someone checked the facts. In 2005, Oprah Winfrey selected his memoir “A Million Little Pieces” …
Belinda Carlisle Announces First English-Language Album In Nearly 30 Years, 'Once Upon A Time In California'

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

Belinda Carlisle, the one-time punk who went from singing in the Go-Go’s to solo stardom in the 1980s, has spent the last few decades releasing music in languages besides her native English, such as French on 2007’s Voila and Sikh chants performed in Punjabi on 2017’s Wilder Shores. The Alvvays inspiration returned to English in short-form fashion on 2023’s Kismet EP, a collaboration with veteran songwriter Diane Warren.
Stanley Cup Final Finds Wayne Gretzky Learning Who Chappell Roan Is

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

Under somewhat mysterious circumstances, the Edmonton Oilers have adopted Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” as their team anthem, blasting it in the locker room after every win during their run through the Stanley Cup playoffs. The team organist for the Oilers — who are in the finals, facing the Florida Panthers in a rematch from last season — has even begun playing the song ahead of each night’s opening faceoff at Rogers Place.
Hayley Williams Joined Turnstile At Tribeca Film, Under The K Bridge

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

Tonight Turnstile will send Primavera Sound out with a bang with what promises to be a delirious 3 a.m. set. We at Stereogum are here at the fest in Barcelona and cannot wait. (That’s 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, and it will be streaming live.) But they’re having to haul ass to get here because they had a busy week leading up to the release of Never Enough that had them in New York until late last night.
Livestream Primavera Sound Barcelona 2025 For Free

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

Hello from beautiful Barcelona, where most of your Stereogum staff will spend the next three days embarking upon one of the greatest music festivals in the world. Primavera Sound has once again rounded up an exciting array of extremely Stereogum-friendly artists to perform along the bands of the Mediterranean at Parc del Fòrum.
Purity Ring Share New Singles "many lives" & "part ii": Listen

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

Last we heard from Purity Ring, they were collaborating with Black Dresses and deluxe-reissuing their classic debut album, Shrines. Today the electro-pop duo is back with their first new tunes since 2022’s graves EP, which was the inaugural release through their own imprint, the fellowship.