Chris DeVille

Columbus

Managing Editor, @stereogum Author, SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, coming 2025 via @StMartinsPress Posting indie nostalgia at @suchgr8heights chris at stereogum dot com

Articles

Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion|Hardcover

22 hours ago | barnesandnoble.com | Chris DeVille

The definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent—and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a generationMaybe you caught a few exhilarating seconds of “Teen Age Riot” on a nearby college radio station while scanning the FM dial in your parents’ car. Maybe your friend invited you to a shabby local rock club and you ended up having a religious experience with Neutral Milk Hotel.
Sorry Girls Share New Single "Quiet Hands": Listen

22 hours ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

Sorry Girls announced their Tusk-inspired new album Dreamwalker last month with the release of lead single “Ricochet,” which we found quite pleasing. The Montreal band is back today with another track from the new LP. “Quiet Hands” is a swooning midtempo pop-rock track with a slightly twangy lead vocal from Heather Foster Kirkpatrick. They’ve paired it with an iteration on the always popular tour-footage compilation music video format. Watch below. Dreamwalker is out 6/13 on Arbutus.
Fyre Festival 2 Says It Has A New Location, Billy McFarland Stepping Down

22 hours ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

Things are changing rapidly within the world of Billy McFarland’s Fyre Fest scam. McFarland, whose first half-baked attempt at a glamorous tropical-island music festival in 2017 was a fraudulent, schadenfreude-stoking disaster, has been talking up a second festival since his release from prison. But after multiple planned destinations for Fyre Fest 2 denied the event was actually happening there, McFarland indefinitely postponed the event last week.
Stream Big Girl's Seriously Impressive New EP 'DYE'

1 day ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

You gotta hear this new Big Girl EP. The Brooklyn-based band, led by Kaitlin Pelkey, is working closely with Ekko Astral, whose Jael Holzman explains them as “the punk version of Chappell Roan.” (The two acts have a collaboration in the works, and Big Girl are playing Ekko’s trans rights festival Liberation Weekend.)The Roan comparison makes sense immediately within a few seconds of pressing play on DYE, the five-song collection Big Girl released today.
Rosé & Coldplay Perform "APT." In Goyang-si, South Korea: Watch

1 day ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” is one of the best pop songs in recent memory. You know it, I know it, and Coldplay know it. It’s why the galactic-scale pop-rock band welcomed the Blackpink alum to join them a few hours ago at Goyang Stadium in Goyang-si, South Korea. After Chris Martin sat at the piano and played a bit of “APT.” solo, the full band kicked in and Rosé burst onto the stage.
Watch Coldplay Cover "APT." With Rosé In South Korea

1 day ago | flipboard.com | Chris DeVille

The George Harrison song used to bash Donald TrumpArtists are always free to use their platform in whatever way they want to. As much as people like to keep their music at the forefront, some have …
Album Of The Week: Samia 'Bloodless'

2 days ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

“You don’t know me, bitch.” Near the end of her new album Bloodless, on a minimal ballad called “Proof,” Samia Finnerty unfurls those words as defiantly as one can when singing in a trembling whisper. In the most intimate moment on an album full of indie-rock confessionals, this is her message, delivered firmly even at a volume that suggests she’s trying not to wake anybody up.
Zedd Brings Out Incubus & Covers

2 days ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

During his Sunday set at Coachella’s first weekend, Zedd brought out John Mayer, Maren Morris, Elley Duhé, Julia Michaels, Bea Miller, and the olllam. His appearance Sunday at the fest’s second weekend featured a mostly different slate of guest performers. Delightfully, one of them was Incubus.
The Cure Announce 'Songs Of A Lost World' Remix Album

3 days ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

The Cure made a lot of constitutionally sad people temporarily happy last year with Songs Of A Lost World, their first new album in 16 years. Around that time, Robert Smith spoke about a “companion album” that was pretty much finished and ready to go, as well as a quite different third album featuring “really kind of random stuff, like late-night studio stuff.” Today, on Smith’s 66th birthday, a new release that may or may not be the aforementioned companion album has been announced.
Kendrick Lamar Becomes The First Musician To Appear In A Gatorade Commercial

6 days ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

For obvious reasons, Gatorade commercials usually feature athletes. The drink was designed for sports people, by sports people. They dump it on the football coach after a big win. It’s synonymous with exercise. But what about verbal workouts? Kendrick Lamar, who is on record as a big runner, narrates a new Gatorade ad that premiered today. Set to his GNX track “peekaboo,” it features a familiar montage of superstar athletes across football, basketball, tennis, and more.