Chris DeVille

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

The drums draw you in immediately. “Backwards,” the latest single from Leeds band Eades’ new album Final Sirens Call, begins with a skittering backbeat that keeps the song feeling brisk and lively all throughout its four minutes. It becomes the foundation for a very British sort of pop-rock song that feels like a modern spin on that post-Britpop, post-OK Computer class of bands circa Y2K — your Doves, Travis, Coldplay lot — but maybe there’s some actual Britpop in there too?

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

“We just wanted things to really explode.” Mission accomplished, Corin Tucker. In the leadup to Sleater-Kinney’s The Woods — which turns 20 years old this Saturday — Tucker, the band’s guitarist and powerhouse lead singer, was talking to Rolling Stone about the radically divergent approach the band had taken and the wildly different album that approach had yielded.

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

POP Montréal, the endlessly fascinating Montréal music festival, has revealed its 2025 lineup. The fest’s 24th edition will run from Sept. 24-28 at venues around town, and its initial list of performers is ready to peruse. Some of the names that stand out to me: Lankum, Chanel Beads, Myriam Gendron, Do Make Say Think, Isabella Lovestory, No Joy, Bolis Pupul, Múm, Zola Jesus, U.S. Girls, Little Mazarn, Cootie Catcher, Joseph Shabason, Common Holly, Lael Neale, Fat Dog, Flower Face, Hand Habits.

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Madeline Kenney’s got a “Scoop” for us today, the latest single from the Bay Area artist’s forthcoming Kiss From The Balcony. The hard-slapping drums add a great deal of oomph to this one, cohering with the song’s dense, almost psychedelic harmonic core to create a wave of brisk melancholia. “I wanna curse the man/ I wanna curse the man I’ve never known,” she begins.

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Chris DeVille

Moroccan producer Abdellah M. Hassak, who makes electronic music under the name Guedra Guedra, is the newest signing to the Domino imprint Smugglers Way. He’ll drop his album MUTANT this August, and judging by djembé-centric lead single “Drift Of Drummer,” it’s going to sound great on late summer nights when you’re trying to keep the season from slipping away.